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For people outside of London, it is worth pointing out that the Evening Standard is handed out for free daily at every corner, while still having strong polit

For people outside of London, it is worth pointing out that the Evening Standard is handed out for free daily at every corner, while still having strong political views. I stopped reading it when it told me to vote for David Cameron...

thaumasiotes 8y ago
> it is worth pointing out that the Evening Standard is handed out for free daily at every corner, while still having strong political views "While"? Those are two things I would expect to go together. Free literature is generally free because it expresses someone's views, and that someone wants to persuade.
ajhurliman 8y ago
So they don't have much of a reputation to tarnish in the first place then? That makes this story a lot less news-worthy in that case.
- fyfy18 8y ago
  I wouldn’t say the issue is really the reputation, people read the paper because it’s literally stuffed in their face. When you are on a train for 30 minutes with no data or WiFi, there’s not much else to do. By circulation, the Standard and Metro are both in the top 5 newspapers in the U.K - but the actual readers are probably higher as you regularly find these papers left on public transport and coffee shops.
adw 8y ago
It is edited by George Osborne, who was the #2 to David Cameron in the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister, definitely the second most powerful Cabinet role) in all of his governments.
- Reason077 8y ago
  George Osborne became editor after he got fired from the government following the Brexit vote. The Evening Standard is pretty consistently negative on Brexit and negative on the current Prime Minister, Theresa May. Both of which are consistent with Osborne's views, I'd imagine.
mayniac 8y ago
And if you don't like the Evening Standard, you can always pick up the other free paper, the Metro. Owned by the Daily Mail Group and guaranteed to be worse than the Standard, but with more tabloid gossip and blaming problems on immigrants.
JepZ 8y ago
Well, for the rest of the world the problem isn't as much the reputation of the Evening Standard as the reputation of the companies taking part in that project.

thaumasiotes 8y ago

> it is worth pointing out that the Evening Standard is handed out for free daily at every corner, while still having strong political views "While"? Those are two things I would expect to go together. Free literature is generally free because it expresses someone's views, and that someone wants to persuade.

ajhurliman 8y ago

So they don't have much of a reputation to tarnish in the first place then? That makes this story a lot less news-worthy in that case.

fyfy18 8y ago
I wouldn’t say the issue is really the reputation, people read the paper because it’s literally stuffed in their face. When you are on a train for 30 minutes with no data or WiFi, there’s not much else to do. By circulation, the Standard and Metro are both in the top 5 newspapers in the U.K - but the actual readers are probably higher as you regularly find these papers left on public transport and coffee shops.

adw 8y ago

It is edited by George Osborne, who was the #2 to David Cameron in the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister, definitely the second most powerful Cabinet role) in all of his governments.

Reason077 8y ago
George Osborne became editor after he got fired from the government following the Brexit vote. The Evening Standard is pretty consistently negative on Brexit and negative on the current Prime Minister, Theresa May. Both of which are consistent with Osborne's views, I'd imagine.

mayniac 8y ago

And if you don't like the Evening Standard, you can always pick up the other free paper, the Metro. Owned by the Daily Mail Group and guaranteed to be worse than the Standard, but with more tabloid gossip and blaming problems on immigrants.

JepZ 8y ago

Well, for the rest of the world the problem isn't as much the reputation of the Evening Standard as the reputation of the companies taking part in that project.