Quote ="gutterfax"all of which is a cool story bro, but has little to do with a daily paper with less than 200k readers, most of whom are middle class aspirant bleeding heart liberals who want to be seen as left wing, not counting a single moment of RL in their annual sports review top 10:'"
It has everything to do with it. The obvious point is that there is an ingrained, institutionalised bias against RL in th UK printed media as a direct result of 100 years of cultural suppression in the places where influencers are developed and influence is wielded. That wil change over time because those issues are no longer in play to the same extent in schools and universities, and as the internet disintermediates media - but as things stand the effects are still there for all to see.
Your reductionist, rationalist view of "papers print what people wan to read" ignores those cultural factors. If that we're true I'd counter with why did Union club games used to get more coverage when watched by one man and his dog and why did Union have a weekly national magazine TV programme on the Beeb which televised the same games? Sometimes supply creates demand, not the other way around.
