AIBU to assume that the majority of posters read The Daily Mail or The Telegraph??

I have a subscription to the new York times for the games. I don't read the news, but I listen to Radio 4

This is a hilarious comment. Do you literally hang around, say this on every thread? I think we all know who needs to get a life!

Definitely more read those news sites than in the past, yes.

Agree. Mixed opinions on most threads. Lots of left leaning voices.

Believing in biological reality and protecting the rights of women is important to many women. The threads on trans and 'changing sex' are very logical, science and factually based. Children need protection and help with mental health issues and when some believe 'changing gender' is the answer to all problems it doesn't help the bigger mental health issues.

Autism is a spectrum and so there are many different individuals where autism presents differently some affect individuals mildly and some aspects of autism might have a devastating impact on an individual's life. Often views come from the perspective of the individuals with autism that they know.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4p90z1kxo

How dare you! It's all about patriotic pride and anyone who suggests otherwise is a far-left loon.

Yep, the rest being owned/run by billionaires with billionaire agendas.

Totally agree.

I really hate any attempt to label, categorise and then dismiss people and their opinions based on what they are suspected of reading.

I used to work in a place which had a range of newspapers available. I didn’t get the DM so I would read it at work. I found it interesting to read a different approach to the one I was used to. Colleagues would tease me…but they were all reading it in th3 quiet! I roll my eyes when I hear or read on MN the contempt for DM readers - as if The Guardian is the only paper for Right (or Left!) Thinking People. I can’t be doing with narrow-mindedness.

I don’t really have a view on what paper mumsnetters in general read, but the majority of mumsnetters do strike me as deeply Tory, not left, in their general outrage at the idea that they should ever be required to think about anyone else or anyone else’s feelings. It’s very individualist, me and my little family (if they like their family which often they don’t, so potentially just me), and fuck everybody else. That thread yesterday by a woman with late diagnosed autism was a case in point, post after post attacking her for having the nerve to tell her family that she didn’t like crowded spaces and wanted to eat somewhere else. People were obviously massively triggered by the idea that anyone might have a condition that meant they had actual needs that needed to be taken into consideration. The nerve!

Women often do get pressured to put other people’s feelings first, so I guess a certain amount of reaction against that is healthy, but mumsnetters definitely take it to its limits.

I don’t read the Daily Mail. I’m none of what you say other I believe trans ‘(wo)men’ should keep their dicks out of women’s spaces because I believe in women’s rights. If they want to pretend they are a woman outside of protected spaces then great.

You’re welcome.

Yes they are appalling I've no idea how they get away with it.

Whichever 'side' their reporters are on we as viewers should not be able to tell.

Their anti Israel bias is so very transparent.

Al jazeera?!

I do agree about the BBC’s coverage of Gaza. Terrifically biased.

Why they are so biased against Israel and Jews is no doubt complicated. But a core factor must be the insidious antisemitic metropolitan left influence within the corporation.

Whatever the explanation, you’re right. Appalling lack of impartiality towards Israel.

100% this.

The Daily Mail and The Guardian are perhaps the only free titles left of the main newspapers, so I'm guessing a lot of people, like me, read both. I'd also think - and very much hope - that only a tiny minority believe everything they read in either. They're both businesses with a target audience to attract and reassure, after all.

I'm gay with an autistic partner, and I read the Telegraph and the Times.

Also, expect them to refer to everyone from the Lib Dem’s leftwards as hard left 😂

I suspect they’re flooding social media on purpose @Greysowhat.

Not been on the Canary for a while have you?

Hard left my arse…

Do people still read newspapers?

Those filled with hate, usually shout the loudest.

I would think anyone who genuinely wanted to educate themselves nowadays would read from a wide range of sources.

I would say it's economically right wing - very anti SAHMs, big families - quite judgemental if people are struggling financially.

And socially left wing - pro lock down, big state, "progressive" on social issues.

The Mail is actually a paper aimed at women. I read it, even though I may not necessarily agree with political opinions (which are not all right wing). Yesterday we had an article about Jennifer Aniston, something from Nadine Dorries, an article about a girl who died from ketamine, and the author who took some as an experiment; Amanda Platell telling about the five marriage proposals she received over her lifetime; an article about obesity with a picture of a woman's waist with a tape measure around it etc. Recently we've had articles about Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy (written by women and detailing their personal experiences), an article about Armani and some of the dresses he created and the actresses who wore them, a woman whose son was stolen and adopted, a woman who likes to sleep with younger men, a 49 yo woman who's living off her parents etc. etc. I accept that SOME men might be interested in these things, but not the vast majority. And interestingly, the Mail costs £1.20 compared with £1.80 for most other tabloids.