The Guardian and Observer both remember,long ago, how ‘advertiser pressure’ was used to discourage both papers’ dissent over SuezLong ago, and during the Suez crisis,both the Observer and the Guardian endured difficult days as advertisers were pressured to desert their unpatriotic” pages. It’s a recurrent theme: the covert – and often unprovable – draining of revenue streams to exact retribution or change of editorial policy. And wherever, around the world, and press freedoms are at their weakest,so the ad squeeze comes on.
It’s a matter of principle: which is why the digital bullying of Paperchase to give up marketing deals with the Daily Mail has to be confronted. You dont absorb to love the Mail to see the point. quit Funding dislike may legitimately urge Mail readers to quit (and Mail readers may, equally legitimately, and examine the causes SFH espouses and make up their own minds). But trolling rather nervous companies such as Paperchase isn’t legitimate. It’s the thin conclude of a perilous wedge – with no winners in sight,from left or right.
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Source: guardian.co.uk