Virgin Trains To Stop The Daily Mail On Their Passenger Service

[emmie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42621425

[Togo]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/daily-mail-accuses-virgin-trains-of-censorship/ar-BBIaJCY?li=AA54rU

[emmie]

Togo
so would you conclude there is deal to be made for it to be classed as a form of censorship or not,

[Togo]

It is either censorship.....or spite Emmie.
Neither of which is a particularly palatable reaction.

[emmie]

no it isn't particularly palatable.

[Togo]

//"When we stocked the Daily Mail on board, we sold one copy for every four trains."// Said Virgin, whilst telling the lie...
// the reason Virgin would no longer be stocking the Mail was because it was aiming to "save space"//

Haha lot of space between somebody's ears methinks. Then they think that we all suffer from the same condition.

[Gromit]

Virgin stopped selling the Mail 2 months ago and no one noticed.
There was very little demand for it.

I doubt that they sell the ‘Morning Star’, but that doesn’t equate to a ban either.

[kvalidir]

It's not censorship, they can sell what the like. I went into Wetherspoons and saw a beer mat emblazoned with pro Brexit nonsense, they can do that because it's their chain of pubs, it's not my business, I can either drink there if I don't mind it or not. I'm not personally pro Brexit as you all know, but I couldn't care less who else is, so although I was slightly surprised it didn't stop me eating in there. If you want to travel by Virgin buy a Wail elsewhere.

[emmie]

why must those who don't like the paper call it the Daily Wail, seems childish and unnecessary.

[Mamyalynne]

You get a lot of that here Emmie, you must have noticed.

If I have ever criticised a publication it has been on the merits or otherwise of a particular article or report under discussion - not the name on the masthead or the ownership.

[emmie]

mamy
indeed

[sp1814]

I think the Daily Mail is a scumbag newspaper because of its incredibly low standards of journalistic integrity.

For example - today, it has published a snuff video that auto plays showing a man falling to his death, accompanied by a pre-roll advert so that it can make money for said man’s sad demise.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5249537/Man-falls-death-posing-cliff-photo.html

I honestly think that the Mail is a disgusting newspaper.

[Togo]

Small thing amuse small.......and all that Emmie.
The usual left wing and lipbie offerings. I have been waiting for one of our resident Maypole dancers to post a thread applauding the abuse dished out on twitter by the left wing practitioners of "decency" towards Esther McVey after her appointment yesterday. Vile in the extreme. Perhaps you should.

[Togo]

If you take the blinkers off sp you will find that video on line on The Mirror, and The Sun, amongst others, websites. Still don't let that get in the way of your piety.

[Mamyalynne]

//lipbie// ?

Translate please.

[sp1814]

Togo

There’s no point asking for condemnation for Twitter posts unless you include condemnation from the Right every time Gary Lineker or JK Rowling dare to post anything that doesn’t dovetail with their blinkered view on the world.

[sp1814]

Togo

And the Mirror and Sun are also scumbag newspapers.

The Mirror posted lies about our troops and their former editor has yet to apologise, and the Sun - Hillborough. buff said.

[Togo]

Haha. Stop wriggling. No thoughts on this man's "mates" then, who filmed him, encouraged him to climb a fence and jump down to a ledge to get a better shot, then filmed him as he fell off the cliff and subsequently posted it on you tube. Nice lads.

[anotheoldgit]

There are many on AnswerBank who would wish to see the Mail banned from here, if they had the power.

What the liberal left don't like about it is, because the DM have the habit of telling it as it really is, which for some strange reason touches some ABer's sensitive nerves, which must make it most uncomfortable for them at times.

[Jackdaw33]

Must agree there, AOG.

[Khandro]

'The Daily Mail and the Guardian might not see eye to eye on many things, but one of the things on which they are agreed is that Virgin Trains is a disgrace. Last week, for example, Alex Brummer wrote in the Daily Mail of how the consortium of Virgin Trains and Stagecoach, which runs services of the East Coast route, has turned ‘the eight-year franchise they secured into a breathtaking failure that could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions’. The Mail’s conclusion was absolutely in line with the Guardian’s own coverage . It is hardly surprising that Virgin should attract such attention from across the political spectrum – the government’s treatment of Virgin, which was allowed to book the profits during the good times on its West Coast franchise but is saved from making payments elsewhere in the bad times, is a scandal from either a socialist or capitalist perspective.'

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