The problem in that respectis the vast majority of their online traffic comes from the USA, who couldn't give two shits about all this, and probably support them because they used the 'S' word.
Everyone in Britain could stop going to the website and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference.
The hard version, however, is still bafflingly popular and will be harder to stop.
The NotW was ultimately done in by advertisers being scared off by the Milly Dowler story.
The Milliband thing doesn't have quite the same abjectness to it, as advertisers know the vast majority of readers won't care about it, and will probably agree with it.
(Everyone in Britain could stop going to the website and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference.
The hard version, however, is still bafflingly popular and will be harder to stop.
The NotW was ultimately done in by advertisers being scared off by the Milly Dowler story.
The Milliband thing doesn't have quite the same abjectness to it, as advertisers know the vast majority of readers won't care about it, and will probably agree with it.
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Fri 4 Oct 2013, 12:24,
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Which is more or less the point I'm trying to make - nil effect on The Mail, but unintentional splashback on the Conservatives.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Fri 4 Oct 2013, 12:56,
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I realisedI replied after only reading the first couple of words of your post and making up the rest in my head
sorry
(sorry
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Fri 4 Oct 2013, 13:17,
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