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Ready · 30/12/2006 17:56

Does anyone actually read the Daily Mail???

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ballbaby · 30/12/2006 17:58

My mum does. I say to her why are reading this drivel. She says she jsut gets it for the crosswords [hmmm] But she does come out with their pathetic bigotted arguments quite a lot!

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ballbaby · 30/12/2006 17:58

That's

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charliecat · 30/12/2006 18:05

My mum does too. Shes awfully racist and some of the things she comes out with....but she didnt used to be, I dont think, this is daily mail inspired.
She says its for the sudoko...it must be written between the lines in code...defend us by saying the quizzes are good!

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2shoes · 30/12/2006 18:07

i do on a saturday. so?

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WanderingTroll · 30/12/2006 18:07

Occasionally I do.

I like a good larf.

But then I find shrieking hysteria from the Hyacinth Buckets of this world right amusing, like.

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emsiewill · 30/12/2006 18:08

My dad does, and is not generally racist, homophobic, anti-women etc etc.

He's read it forever, certainly since I was a kid. Not sure whether it's changed over the years, but he's stuck with it out of habit.

One of my friends gets it too - she says it's for the horoscopes

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southeastastra · 30/12/2006 18:08

my mil reads it it gives her something to moan about i do find there is a lack of interesting papers for the older generation, they have hours to read one and want something more than the mirror etc. she has looked at the guardian and calls it 'dry' haha

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SnafuOutOfHiding · 30/12/2006 18:08

I do, every day.

Know Thine Enemy, I say.

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DoesntChristmasDragOn · 30/12/2006 18:08

I do when I go to my parents. I find it amusing as it really is a pile of alarmist shite.

The fact that people believe what's written there and agree with it worries me though.

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2shoes · 30/12/2006 18:11

but I love fiction. I read the local paper for real news.
Think people are too snobby about what people read.

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hatwoman · 30/12/2006 18:14

a very close friend of mine writes in it. we tend not to talk about it...

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SnafuOutOfHiding · 30/12/2006 18:15

LOL, hatwoman, an old school friend of mine writes for it too. Wonder if it's the same person?

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WanderingTroll · 30/12/2006 18:15

The Daily Mail is a bit like that woman on Catherine Tate who screams in shock and horror at crisps being crunched and phones ringing.

"It's like Beirut in here."

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Twiglett · 30/12/2006 18:16

my sister does

can't convince her not to

she thinks I'm being a london lefty snob .. and making out she's provincial

she's probably right .. I am

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Ready · 30/12/2006 18:16

2shoes... I was just curious!!!

I should have perhaps entitled my thread "does anyone actually believe the nonsense in the DailyMail?"

An old colleague of mine reads the Mail and would frequently come out with a bigotted diatribe!

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MyTwoCupsOfKindness · 30/12/2006 18:19

i do. i read lots of papers. reading does not equal believing, unless you are a moron! i think it is beneficial to read a variety of viewpoints on any given topic. i thing it is daft to only read a paper that is likely to 'think' like you, iyswim! be challenged! see the other pov.

it is very interesting to read the same story in 2 or 3 papers and just how differently it is presented. nobody is without bias. use a variety of information when you form your own view, not mindlessly regurgitate what one reporter thinks.

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Twiglett · 30/12/2006 18:19

did you know a Daily Mail journalist got an MBE

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2shoes · 30/12/2006 18:19

so what do you read then?

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2shoes · 30/12/2006 18:20

( oh and the mail got it wrong today. said that fatboy slims concert was free- is not and that 60,000 were going it's 20.000)

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misdee · 30/12/2006 18:21

i read the mail at MIL, dh likes the sun, my dad reads the mirror.

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Ready · 30/12/2006 18:28

I read The Times every day and The Guardian on occasion.

Like I said, I was just curious. It's nothing to do with snobbery at all. I was not trying to start an argument. Another thread was started with a link to a DailyMail article (full of nonsense speculation on immigration) and it got me wondering how many people actually read it.

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Ready · 30/12/2006 18:30

Mytwocupsofkindness - I did actually say I could/should have posed the question as "does anyone actually believe..."

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MyTwoCupsOfKindness · 30/12/2006 18:32

you did ready, you did! i didnt see it till i'd refreshed after i'd posted!

oh, and to answer the revised question

Hell No!!

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2shoes · 30/12/2006 18:36

i like reading it. and no I don't believe it any more than I believe heat or the crap magazines I enjoy. It is escapism same as reading a fiction book.
so what makes newspapers like the times any better(just being nosy)

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Pruni · 30/12/2006 18:39

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