Are students justified in banning the sale of newspapers on campus?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2017/jan/17/are-students-justified-in-banning-the-sale-of-newspapers-on-campus
Summary: University of London when four people debate whether campus campaigns against the sale of the Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Express are justified. In November last year, members of City’s student union voted to ban the three papers from the campus. They argued that the papers had run Islamophobic stories and also “actively scapegoat the working classes they so proudly claim to represent”. they further claimed that “freedom of speech should not be used as an excuse to attack the weakest and poorest members of society” and that the titles publish stories that are “inherently sexist”.
[] Fewer than 200 of the university’s 19,500 student population attended the meeting
My Opinion: The positive of this is that students are realising the things that are against their wills/values that appear on newspapers and they are wiling to fight back. But since there is already a decline on newspapers and this industry, by these tabloid newspaper not selling in the university, it can cause their business real damage. The problem is that news papers are approaching their audience in the wrong ways, they are putting articles or issues that audiences do not like hearing about or things that are stated indirectly about them or things that are categorised towards them within society.
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