From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone, and this week our topic is reality

revised. A little more than a week ago, a heavy libel was lifted from Liverpool.

When I'm traveling around the country, I'm visiting different parts of the country,

I don't have to defend my city no more

because now everyone knows what the truth is.

I don't feel like I need to defend where to come from.

For the 96 Justice,

family of the 96 gathered outside a local Anglican cathedral.

On April 15th, 1989, 96 soccer fans were crushed to death when crowding into standing-room terraces at Hillsborough Stadium.

A government investigation long pushed by the bereaved families found that the stunningly

incompetent local authorities were responsible and that the police had altered documents.

As those in power and authority began the culture of cover up and lies, and fed the press

stories smearing the fans.

Most notoriously, the Sun tabloid ran the headline,

The Truth, some fans picked the pockets of victims,

some fans urinated on the brave cops.

Last week, the Sun's current editor sincerely apologized.

The editor responsible for that headline in 1989, Kelvin McKenzie, also apologized.

But he's not much believed because of the defensive crouch he took as suspicions mounted last year.

That story came from a Liverpool news agency and Liverpool journalist.

It's on your newspaper.

...