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

I assume you are old as don’t know anyone who had read a newspaper in at least 15 years.

I read The Daily Telegraph. The Guardian is just so suffocatingly smug I’d need an oxygen mask to get through it. I don’t agree with the Telegraph on everything btw. It’s very much a royalist paper, and even though I’m a conservative I’m a republican. I cannot bear the royal family and wish we’d never brought them back in the 1660s. I also loathe fox hunting and blood sports, which the Telegraph supports. However, unlike the Guardian, the Telegraph is tolerant and fair towards those with different opinions. One of the striking things about the left is their utter contempt for everyone who disagrees with them. (We are right about everything, so just shut up and do what we tell you.) They constantly whinge about intolerance, yet no one on earth is more intolerant than them.

The newspaper of choice on MN is generally the Guardian.

Incredibly, Guardian reading MNers actually seem to believe what they read in it.

Mumsnet being "hard left" is one of the funniest things I've read in ages.

I like to believe the majority, like myself, read a range of publications.
I'm centre left (ish), but had a subscription to the Telegraph for a while. The Daily Mail I read very occasionally.

I think it's important, regardless of one's politics, to read widely so you can reasonably argue different points of view.

Only paper I subscribe to is the IPaper, cancelled now through disappointment. They send more news via email than put on the website.
Everyone looks at The Mail Online, whether admitting it or not, as it has the most current updates. I look at the Guardian, ignoring their begging for donations.

I read anything that's not behind a paywall. I would like more on Europe and less of America. US reader comments in the MOL have become insulting since Trump and Vance made their derogatory remarks.
Yesterday a woman said the UK is years behind the US in computer technology, yet no other commentor pointed out, that an Englishman invented the WWW.

I’m pro women, this doesn’t mean that I’m anti trans. I’m patriotic and would always support my country, this doesn’t mean that I’m racist.

I don’t read any newspaper or watch news on the tv. I prefer to know facts rather than whatever the state owned media is broadcasting

Seems to me they must believe everything they read in The Mail or The Telegraph. Or am I being unreasonable?!

Depends. Do you believe everything the BBC publish?

I used to read the guardian but stopped about 10 years ago. Their views on trans issues are so far removed from mine, anyone I know or any part of the society I lived in it seemed the guardian writers were a totally different species to me. Where do these people live? Is it all north London champagne socialists?

My flatmate used to get the Mail. I’d flick through it looking for an article about a genuine current affair and fail every time. No one cares about what a former birds of a feather actor is up to now.

The majority of women are against transwomen being allowed to share womens single sex spaces. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to escape their guardianista bubble and join the real world.

I dont read any newspapers.

I watch different news programmes across a few channels

Did you mean to be so rude?

The ops question is a reasonable one to ask based on the responses on some threads.

There is a lot of Faragey bot spam on here at the moment.

Fortunately quite a lot of people can see through it. You can't convince people that a load of people painting flags on things in their spare time are anything but bored twats.

They will have to wait for civil unrest.

What do you look at / read for news op?

I don’t read either. I do follow Simple Politics.

I don't know. I only read the Guardian and the BBC news. Obviously, I can only talk for myself. It seems there are pretty balanced views on these forums actually.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion whether it offends the majority of MNer or not such as choice of reading matter.
I have always found it odd that so many posters have added links to the Daily Mail then apologise for doing so.
I don't believe that they all get this stuff from pop ups etc. A lot are obviously reading articles so they can post about it.
If you don't like it scroll past or don't link.

This😂 you will find a lot of responses like that on here. The other one is “it’s none of your business” because Mn is not about discussing anything is it?😂

It's like most places online, there is a massive mix of views and opinions.

I haven't seen any 'anti trans' posts? We all support anyone being able to dress as they wish. The point is you can't change sex. That is not anti trans, it is fact.

AIBU to assume the Op is an insufferable snob?

I’ll have you know I get my quality information by listening to GB News.

I haven’t done any reading lessons yet.

The best thing about MN is the broad spectrum of beliefs and opinions and the freedom to express them. People who stick to echo chambers hardly ever learn anything new. The curious are open minded.

I don’t touch the Torygraph and rarely read The Mail (never buy it - only if I forwarded a story.)

I have no issue with conservative / right learning news sites but I do have issues with platforms that misrepresent data / omit key information or to deliberately whip up hatred against various groups which both of these do incessantly. That said I am not a regular reader of any papers. When I was at uni years ago I bought The TImes.

On any of the scandal threads people always read the Daily Mail, as it often has hints nearby as to who it is.

Not sure, but MN feels like it's a lot more right leaning than it used to be.