to occasionally buy the Daily Mail?

[MrsMadWriggle]

I realise that this could be construed as Mumsnet suicide (am due a name change soon anyway!)

I'm not proud of it, I hide it at bottom of my basket in the local shop in case someone sees me buying it. I don't agree with the politics one bit - I've never voted Tory in my life.

But I just can't be arsed to read a broadsheet (apart from on a Sunday when I have more time). Years ago, I used to read the Guardian or the Independent, but I just want something to flick through during my lunchbreak.

Go on flame away. Maybe I need to be shamed into action.

All of you people who say you don't agree with its politics
All you people who read it online and think that's not really reading it
You do realise that everything you read, see and hear (and smell and taste and feel) has an effect on you?

Hence advertising

And spin. And dissembling. Hypnosis. If you could choose what your brain took in and processed, there would be none of those things. The point is that you don't choose what goes into your subconscious.

The best you can do is limit the rot.

proudnglad

The Guardian is getting shite on a Saturday. And the DM keep annoying me by giving DVDs that I might want away, causing ethical dilemmas in the tippy household.

Give up newspapers altogether. I cannot find a good one any more so I am Not Getting News. The plus side is that I am not so depressed by bad news

I gave up the Guardian (the Saturday version put me off tbh, and the rot that the Nobserver turned into) in favour of the New Statesman. It's not perfect but it is very thought provoking at least (and no decor features).

Sorry, but no way would I spend money on the DM - but have to admit to being addicted to the co.uk version!

I love the Daily Mail. I buy it every day & enjoy it. I get the Times too on Saturdays. I especially love it on Thursdays with the Femail section. If you are reading it on line you are a Daily Mail reader. It's like people who boast that they never watch tv but then watch lots of box sets of tv series that have been shown on tv. What's the difference?

Well I didn't get quite the flaming I thought I might.

Maybe I should just carry on buying it.....

Sorry for the vulgarity but the Mail is like toilet paper except that it comes with the shit already in it.

I read it online every day sometimes more than once a day to see if anything has happened.

I don't read the Littlejohn chappy, I can't stand him. I also don't read Liz Jones unless I am feeling v unreasonable and have full blown judgey pants on. Then I read her and grind my teeth and have a little rant. I find that most cathartic.

I have been known to post comments on the DM site too...

dm is linked on mn daily.mn posters love dm.they all squawck they found it in cafe/at pil/gp..blah blah.it gets discussed and linked because mn loves dm

yes

My stepmum buys it and regurgitates all the ridiculous one-sided right-wing reactionary stuff they publish as if it is gospel.

I read it when I'm at my dad's, but mainly to have a laugh at their ridiculous one-sided right-wing reactionary reporting! And marvel at the absurd Liz Jones.

However, it does have some good stuff in the centre pages if I want to switch off the brain and need a relaxing read (nothing wrond with that).

So read it if you wish, just take everything with a HUGE pinch of salt......

lol,daily mn posters scratch arse about dm pretending not to read it.tosh mn and dm inextricabily linked

MadWriggle I also buy and read the DM on occasion and also feel embarrassed as if I might be construed as a right wing, intolerant, anti-working mothers, anti-immigration, type person... Which I'm not!!!

But sometimes I want an easy read whilst having a coffee in a coffee shop and am also trying to feed/entertain toddler son in his pushchair. Heat magazine is just too much drivel TBH and also more expensive than DM. I don't really want to spend more than 50p for a quick flick through the news and some general interest stories.

And yes I also enjoy scoffing at some of the stories and their 'middle england' slant [Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells] and getting all worked up about Liz Jones and her self inflicted 'problems'.

I read the Sun online, I'm that common. DH is worse though, he reads the Star, AND he is a white van driver