Billionaire Richard Branson is facing allegations of censorship due to the decision to pull The Daily Mail from Virgin Trains.
Pro-Trump editorials and a host of public policy differences are too much for the founder of the Virgin Group to handle. An internal company memo said the newspaper’s opinions prompted “considerable concern” among Virgin’s employees, the U.K. Telegraph reported Tuesday.
“It is disgraceful that, at a time of massive customer dissatisfaction over ever-increasing rail fares, and after the taxpayer was forced to bail out Virgin’s East Coast mainline franchise, a decision strongly criticized by the Mail, that Virgin Trains should now announce that for political reasons it is censoring the choice of newspapers it offers to passengers,” the Daily Mail said in a statement.
“Oh for goodness sake. Come off it @richardbranson — censorship isn’t your thing, surely?” tweeted Daily Mail contributor and television host Piers Morgan.
Virgin’s memo went on to deem the newspaper “not at all compatible” with Mr. Branson’s worldview.
“We regularly review the products we have on sale for customers onboard our trains, and after listening to feedback from our people we have decided that we will no longer stock copies of the Daily Mail on services on our west coast route,” a Virgin spokesman told PRWeek.
Oh for goodness sake.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 9, 2018
Come off it @richardbranson - censorship isn’t your thing, surely? https://t.co/RIczszPT4P
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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