Virgin trains stop selling the Daily Mail (1 Viewer)

[clint van damme]

In your opinion. Not the opinion of 1.5 million people.

well it clearly doesn't. It has a responsibility to report truthfully and often fails in that duty.
It may have 1.5 million readers bt you can guarantee that everyone who posts on the CET comments section is among them!

 

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[skybluetony176]

You haven’t actually answered my point. I will answer yours but I need to understand your perspective first. Do you agree with suppression of freedom of speech or not?

Stopping the mail from being published would be a freedom of speech issue. Stop exaggerating. We live in a free society and Richard Branson is allowed to stop selling it if he wants. You can still buy it elsewhere and read it on the train or read it online using the WiFi available on said trains. Stop being a drama queen and overplaying the freedom of speech card.

 

[Otis]

How many people read it as opposed to an app on their phone on the train nowadays anyway?

Very valid point. Anyone who wants to read the Mail on Virgin Trains would be able to via the app.

Close thread.

 

[clint van damme]

Very valid point. Anyone who wants to read the puritanical Mail on Virgin Trains would be able to see the endless display of cleavge shots and wardrobe malfunctions on the online edition via the app.

Close thread.

Fixed.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

I read the Daily Mail, I like a laugh now and again after all, and you never know when you need some toilet paper.

Anyway, I'd agree that it would be censorship if it were banned but... if it's just not sold because no bugger buys it, then who's spinning what headline?

 

[Otis]

I read the Daily Mail, I like a laugh now and again after all, and you never know when you need some toilet paper.

Anyway, I'd agree that it would be censorship if it were banned but... if it's just not sold because no bugger buys it, then who's spinning what headline?

Yup.

Impossible to justify selling a newspaper that sells just one copy for every four trains!!

I used to like the Independent, but if I went on a train that said they didn't sell it I wouldn't have any problem with that at all.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

I used to like the Independent, but if I went on a train that said they didn't sell it I wouldn't have any problem with that at all.

Given it's internet only nowadays, you'd be kind of likely for that to happen...

 

[Otis]

Given it's internet only nowadays, you'd be kind of likely for that to happen...

Is it really!!

Shows how long it's been since I bought a newspaper other than the CT.

I reckon it's been 20 years.

 

[skybluetony176]

Just reading up and they only distributed four papers anyway and will now only be distributing the Mirror, Times and FT from now on. Hardly a newsagent by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Just reading up and they only distributed four papers anyway and will now only be distributing the Mirror, Times and FT from now on. Hardly a newsagent by any stretch of the imagination.

Old righty Branson banning the Guardian?!?

 

[Grendel]

I read the Daily Mail, I like a laugh now and again after all, and you never know when you need some toilet paper.

Anyway, I'd agree that it would be censorship if it were banned but... if it's just not sold because no bugger buys it, then who's spinning what headline?

In the same way I read the Guardian and snigger when the odious Will Love My Self is viewed as a voice of reason.

 

[Grendel]

well it clearly doesn't. It has a responsibility to report truthfully and often fails in that duty.
It may have 1.5 million readers bt you can guarantee that everyone who posts on the CET comments section is among them!

So in your view it clearly doesn’t and that’s the end of the discussion. Ok.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

In the same way I read the Guardian and snigger when the odious Will Love My Self is viewed as a voice of reason.

We'll both be stony faced if we're on a Virgin Train then.

 

[SIR ERNIE]

"We've decided that this paper is not compatible with the VT brand and our beliefs"

Yawn. Just another pathetic little hissyfit from an organisation who won't accept Brexit.

 

[Otis]

"We've decided that this paper is not compatible with the VT brand and our beliefs"

Yawn. Just another pathetic little hissyfit from an organisation who won't accept Brexit.

Just one copy sold per four trains.

Seems like some can't accept that simple fact.

If it were me I would be seeking that one person out and asking 'WHY???'

Guessing the answer might well be they were in a rush and picked up the Daily Mail in error.

 

[clint van damme]

"We've decided that this paper is not compatible with the VT brand and our beliefs"

Yawn. Just another pathetic little hissyfit from an organisation who won't accept Brexit.

so why are they still selling the pro Brexit Telegraph?

 

[SIR ERNIE]

In the same way I read the Guardian and snigger when the odious Will Love My Self is viewed as a voice of reason.

Or the painful Owen Jones.

 

[Grendel]

Just one copy sold per four trains.

Seems like some can't accept that simple fact.

If it were me I would be seeking that one person out and asking 'WHY???'

Guessing the answer might well be they were in a rush and picked up the Daily Mail in error.

It’s almost certain if that’s true then they sell 1 mirror every 8 trains and 1 observer every 25

 

[Grendel]

so why are they still selling the pro Brexit Telegraph?

Because they didn’t expose Branson as a sexual predator.

 

[SIR ERNIE]

so why are they still selling the pro Brexit Telegraph?

Because all true lefties MUST hate the Mail. The Guardian says so.

 

[skybluetony176]

Old righty Branson banning the Guardian?!?

Must be gay too banning page free init.

 

[clint van damme]

Because all true lefties MUST hate the Mail. The Guardian says so.

The same Guardian that ran a piece calling for people to forgive and forget the Mails nazi past?

 

[skybluetony176]

Need you say anymore?

So in your view it clearly doesn’t and that’s the end of the discussion. Ok.

How did that work out by the way?

 

[clint van damme]

Because they didn’t expose Branson as a sexual predator.

I'm thinking this is the most likely scenario. The sales story, (1 per 4 trains) sounds iffy and like I said to Ernie, if it was Brexit related why still sell the Telegraph?

 

[skybluetony176]

We'll both be stony faced if we're on a Virgin Train then.

Grendull do public transport? He wouldn’t wipe his arse on a rail season ticket

 

[Ian1779]

Because all true lefties MUST hate the Mail. The Guardian says so.

No we just hate racist, manipulative, spiteful and jumped up little pricks that are of limited intelligence and wouldn't know what hypocrisy was if it smacked them with a hijab... so pretty much it's online comments section.

 

[SIR ERNIE]

racist, manipulative, spiteful and jumped up little pricks that are of limited intelligence and wouldn't know what hypocrisy was if it smacked them with a hijab

The Labour Party?

 

[Grendel]

No we just hate racist, manipulative, spiteful and jumped up little pricks that are of limited intelligence and wouldn't know what hypocrisy was if it smacked them with a hijab... so pretty much it's online comments section.

You sound like Jeremy Corbyn and his views on the Jewish community

 

[clint van damme]

 

[chiefdave]

Yawn. Just another pathetic little hissyfit from an organisation who won't accept Brexit.

 

[Grendel]

The Mirror used to be a Nazi paper - have I entered a 6th form debating society?

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Grendull do public transport? He wouldn’t wipe his arse on a rail season ticket

There's always first class to keep the plebs out.

 

[Otis]

 

[Otis]

I always get the sense that they are trying to stir up trouble and get people angry.

 

[Kingokings204]

How many copies do they sell of the other papers such as the mirror and guardian then?