The Sun was monstered for not getting Frankenstein – and the Times did it too

John Plunkett. Updated March 7th, 2018

You’ll have seen by now that the Sun has been pilloried online for laying into ‘snowflake’ students who said Frankenstein’s monster was a misunderstood victim.

but that's……..that's the book. that's what the book is about pic.twitter.com/WWPHnFYpWG

— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) March 6, 2018

Pilloried so much, in fact, that they did this.

Pretty ballsy of the Sun to call people snowflakes for understanding Frankenstein and then delete the tweet the moment they're criticized.

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) March 7, 2018

Now someone’s pointed out that the same story ran in the Sun’s sister paper The Times two days ago.

Everyone's ripping into the Sun over Frankenstein but the *Times* ran the exact same story two days ago. https://t.co/dR6FMo451t pic.twitter.com/fqd6rGFJyk

— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) March 7, 2018

Albeit with a slightly different tone.

Yes, but the Times didn't scream "SNOWFLAKES!!!" in its tweets.

— Rhymer Rigby (@rhymerrigby) March 7, 2018

Isn't this entirely to be expected given the relationship between the two?

— Kristian Carter (@xtiancrtr) March 7, 2018

I'm not surprised, I'm just pointing out that a much more respectable paper than the Sun did the exact same stupid thing.

— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) March 7, 2018

So the sun not only wrote a stupid article about literally nothing, but didn't even come up with an original idea

— Blake Smith (@blakesmithy16) March 7, 2018

Pretty sure they made up the whole article just to say "He was stitched up"

— (((Alix Mansell))) (@alixmansell) March 7, 2018

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