Originally Posted by
indianwells
It also has the second biggest circulation of any British newspaper. As this presumably means that lots and lots of people want to read it, i'm guessing BA are giving people what they want. If it's that important buy a Telegraph, Times, FT etc from WH Smith before entering the lounge. I do.
Yes, but then the newspaper preferences of the UK population are very stratified, and the vast majority of DM readers do not fit the typical socio-demographic profile of BA lounge visitors. Plus at that rate they might as well have gone for the Sun. This is not a statement of taste/distaste but there is a very obvious 'right wing bias' in BA's choice of newspapers: apart from the Independent, everything else you find (DM, DT, T) is between rather and very right wing. I'd rather the choice were DT, Times, Independent, Guardian, and FT but I guess it would simply be more expensive.