British newspaper distribution hit by Extinction Rebellion blockade

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, pixelaoffy said:

I subscribe to telegraph online £4 a month. Good value ! To think 10-15 years ago I read the guardian until it decided to be a puppet of the left 

The Daily Telegraph makes you pay to read the latest gossip about Kim Kardashian.

 

Meanwhile, everything in The Guardian is free.

 

Now what was that about value for money again?

Edited September 6, 2020 by NanLaew

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, Cats4ever said:

Frankly, I am happy at any protest against "the Humble Rupert Organisation". They are rags and they are insidious in UK, USA and the old homeland, OZ.

There is a simple solution - don't buy their newspapers, and persuade enough people not to do so

 

Preventing people from buying them is altogether a different matter.

 

Is there really so much difference in what these two groups are doing?

 

Preventing the public from buying what they wish -  wether clothing or newspapers, which are openly and legitimately for sale.

 

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by herfiehandbag

[herfiehandbag]

Just don't buy his newspapers or watch his TV channel then!

[herfiehandbag]

17 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Rupert Murdoch and the heads of government that he hangs out with him already control what we read.

 

We the sheeple...

Well don't buy his newspapers, or watch his TV channels then

 

Then you won't be one of the sheeple!

 

I happen to subscribe to The Times online edition - because it is cheap and is still a "newspaper of record".

 

That doesn't mean that I agree with the opinions of its leader or features writers - I often don't!

 

My daughter often asks, "Why are you shouting at the computer Daddy?"

[Justgrazing]

Is the bird in the pink strides doing some sort of imaginary pole dancing routine in front of her carbon neutral mate .. 

[bluesofa]

26 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Is the bird in the pink strides doing some sort of imaginary pole dancing routine in front of her carbon neutral mate .. 

Do those sort of birds mate for life?

[elfpattaya]

2 hours ago, JonnyF said:

So typical of the far left. 

The far right blocked Dover yesterday.

[Justgrazing]

2 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Do those sort of birds mate for life?

Good point and quite possible that they w-hoop it up .. sort of birds of a feather flock together .. but with a U if U know what I mean ..  

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

He tweeted?

 

Ah, the irony...where do you think most people get their news from these days johnson?

 

You still think it's the paper boy-girl/newsagents/corner news stand...ROFLMAO

 

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/uk-national-newspaper-sales-slump-by-two-thirds-in-20-years-amid-digital-disruption/

Only <deleted> tweet on Twitter.......

[pixelaoffy]

1 hour ago, Black arab said:

Right wing gammons getting all hot under the collar,lol.

More like a 'black Arab ' getting pissy 

[pixelaoffy]

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

The Daily Telegraph makes you pay to read the latest gossip about Kim Kardashian.

 

Meanwhile, everything in The Guardian is free.

 

Now what was that about value for money again?

Haha. The Guardian is unbalanced junk with Viners pimps trying to make its own 'news'. You're welcome to it 'free' 

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

The Daily Telegraph makes you pay to read the latest gossip about Kim Kardashian.

 

Meanwhile, everything in The Guardian is free.

 

Now what was that about value for money again?

Although if you're a smartarse you can read The Telegraph for free.

[Laughing Gravy]

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

So typical of the far left. 

 I agree and it is but on a level playing field with what these lot call everyone else, they should be called extreme far left.

[flossie35]

4 hours ago, nauseus said:

Freedom of the press? No, can't have that no more. 

The so-called newspapers concerned have abused the freedom of the press by turning into propaganda sheets for extreme right-wing views.

[pixelaoffy]

33 minutes ago, flossie35 said:

The so-called newspapers concerned have abused the freedom of the press by turning into propaganda sheets for extreme right-wing views.

You actually mean views you don't hold! Typical liberal Left mantra 

[faraday]

1 hour ago, flossie35 said:

The so-called newspapers concerned have abused the freedom of the press by turning into propaganda sheets for extreme right-wing views.

What political leaning is The Guardian, then?

 

 

[Nigel Garvie]

7 minutes ago, faraday said:

What political leaning is The Guardian, then?

 

 

Soft left to centre left mainly. The occasional fairly radical piece to be sure, just in the same way as you get the occasional unhinged Neo-facist far right article in the Tory papers. But why ask since the Grauniad is not one of the "The so-called newspapers concerned" anyway, so irrelevant. 

[GinBoy2]

This more of a question than anything else.

 

Is printed media still big in the UK? 

 

In my youth, and all the way up to the late nineties newspapers were delivered to your house here in the US. It would be chucked onto your driveway or in a box.

 

That has all but disappeared here. I do, along with most people still read newspapers, but it's all electronic delivery.

 

I struggle to think that a blockade of a printing plant here would have had anything like the impact it seemed to have in the UK

[Nigel Garvie]

4 hours ago, stevenl said:

 

 

You're right, it seems protests are not ok anyway in your opinion.

I can't understand what the fuss is about, little protests happen all the time. This one may result in a temporary shortage of Daily Mail, and Sun pages as toilet paper but just use Andrex. 

"Freedom of speech", from the sad coward who wouldn't face Andrew Neil's questions, and restricts access to certain HMG briefings to those who tow the party line - now that's a laugh.

[evadgib]

3 hours ago, elfpattaya said:

The far right blocked Dover yesterday.

??

"I read the news today, Oh boy" springs to mind...????

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by evadgib

[dunroaming]

7 hours ago, faraday said:

Aren't most newspapers in the UK still available in print?

 

Yes, & they are still delivered & bought in shops & post offices etc.

 

Circulation The Times

 

 359,960 (Print, Feb 2020); 304,000 (Digital, June 2019)

I buy the Times every day.  I then read most of the serious newspapers on-line.  I like the feel of sitting down with a nice cup of Earl Grey and flicking through the printed edition, tutting as I go.  The next day I carefully cut the newspaper into squares, punch a hole in the corner and hang it in the toilet.  At two pounds a copy you need to get as much out of it as you can.

 

I think we need groups like Extinction Rebellion to challenge and highlight when the governments get it wrong over climate change. And they do that a lot!  However I think this time they have got it completely wrong.  Of course Murdoch is a scumbag but this is not a valid reason for the action.  Pick your fights with care ER, otherwise you will lose the support of many.

[elliss]

9 hours ago, nauseus said:

Freedom of the press? No, can't have that no more. 

 

      Those Days , long gone ..

[blazes]

7 hours ago, dunroaming said:

I buy the Times every day.  I then read most of the serious newspapers on-line.  I like the feel of sitting down with a nice cup of Earl Grey and flicking through the printed edition, tutting as I go.  The next day I carefully cut the newspaper into squares, punch a hole in the corner and hang it in the toilet.  At two pounds a copy you need to get as much out of it as you can.

 

I think we need groups like Extinction Rebellion to challenge and highlight when the governments get it wrong over climate change. And they do that a lot!  However I think this time they have got it completely wrong.  Of course Murdoch is a scumbag but this is not a valid reason for the action.  Pick your fights with care ER, otherwise you will lose the support of many.

 

I am not sure Extinction Rebellion would be able to accept you as a supporter, since you seem to cut down a tree or two just to wipe your ar$e.  (But at least it means you are not an ER ecofreak.)

 

Clearly, you are not living in Thailand where the bum gun rules supreme. 

[faraday]

9 hours ago, dunroaming said:

carefully cut the newspaper into squares, punch a hole in the corner and hang it in the toilet

What a classy gent.

 

[transam]

And an MP backs these people up, you know, the same one that kicked up a stink about being stopped by the police in a car, typical leftie stuff.......................????

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/labour-mp-dawn-butler-condemned-110948037.html

[evadgib]

12 minutes ago, transam said:

And an MP backs these people up, you know, the same one that kicked up a stink about being stopped by the police in a car, typical leftie stuff.......................????

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/labour-mp-dawn-butler-condemned-110948037.html

As did the Abbapotamous on Sophy Ridge yesterday.

[elfpattaya]

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

As did the Abbapotamous on Sophy Ridge yesterday

Did you realise your Avatar maybe a very naughty boy?

[evadgib]

7 minutes ago, elfpattaya said:

Did you realise your Avatar maybe a very naughty boy?

Yes????

[NanLaew]

15 hours ago, dunroaming said:

I buy the Times every day.  I then read most of the serious newspapers on-line.  I like the feel of sitting down with a nice cup of Earl Grey and flicking through the printed edition, tutting as I go.  The next day I carefully cut the newspaper into squares, punch a hole in the corner and hang it in the toilet.  At two pounds a copy you need to get as much out of it as you can.

 

I think we need groups like Extinction Rebellion to challenge and highlight when the governments get it wrong over climate change. And they do that a lot!  However I think this time they have got it completely wrong.  Of course Murdoch is a scumbag but this is not a valid reason for the action.  Pick your fights with care ER, otherwise you will lose the support of many.

With all the mighty, whitey righties foghorning about some perceived threat to free speech, the Extinction Rebellion is already two traffic tickets shy of being declared a terrorist organization.

 

If Bojo's presses on with this absurd premise, it will be handy Q4 distraction from the fact that he's leading the UK out of the EU without a deal.

[MRToMRT]

On 9/6/2020 at 1:31 AM, rooster59 said:

"A free press is vital in holding the government and other powerful institutions to account on issues critical for the future of our country, including the fight against climate change,"

Hmmm I think a "free" press has not been a thing for many a decade, if ever. They are all pushing their own narratives and political leanings.