My favourite line from the Guardian came when they realised that the vast majority of their left-leaning readers strongly disagreed with them regarding Islamic terrorism and the refugee crisis.
Closed comments on certain articles due to “a change in mainstream public opinion and language that we do not wish to see reflected or supported on the site”.[0]
At least they didn't even pretend that it wasn't because the majority of their readership disagreed with them.
[0]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/31/readers...