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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To think the Daily Mail should be banned for inciting general hatred?

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CheesyWotzits · 07/10/2011 19:07

I think it should

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Nancy66 · 07/10/2011 21:26

Arachnophobic - that headline was 15 years ago - after the collapseof the private prosecution - there was no trial. The second trial hasn't happened yet.

the story was run with the approval of the Lawrence family - the mail have been cleared of any contempt of court

GossipWitch · 07/10/2011 21:27

never read the mail, occasionally read the sun or mirror round my nan's and even they can be full of bollox sometimes!!!

pearlym · 07/10/2011 21:30

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian regular, this is what was said about her by a journalist in This Week. I do not vouch for the veracity of what is said and indeed for all I know, This Week could be run by the dreaded Daily Mail, but if it is true that she was voted for as alleged, the this would suggest a level of ignorance, etc from a leading Guardia nwriter. All a paper does is showcase the views of its journalists and owners/editors. Yuo are of course free to dislike DM views, many of which are simplistic and designed to appeal to the Little Englanders amonst us. However, I do think that this is a bandwagon many "right thinking people" jump upon, without looking very carefully at prejudices etc within other papers.
"There is in this a strong whiff of smugness and hypocrisy which, combined with an alm

ost heroic lack of any sense of humour, has made her widely disliked.

Her enemies are actually legion. As a devout atheist, and President of the British Humanist Association, in 2004 she was voted Most Islamophobic Media Personality by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. "

onagar · 07/10/2011 21:35

It merely represents opinions with which you do not agree. you mean like when they decided Robert Murat was guilty?

Not saying the other papers are much better, but for outright lies you want the DM every time.

I don't want it banned but they ought to print it on softer paper :)

begonyabampot · 07/10/2011 21:43

I like to read it online to keep an eye on the enemy and see what they are up to and thinking. It really, really hates women though. I sometimes wonder if they are doing reverse psychology and print these awful articles about some celebs wobbly cellulite (with close up pics) bits to outrage the public and have them join together in protest, but i doubt it.

Roseflower · 07/10/2011 21:44

If your wish comes true be prepared for the AIBU threads to be reduced to, oh, 10% volume of what they used to be

Putrifyno · 07/10/2011 21:44

The Amanda Knox fiasco on Monday - where they published the 'guilty' story by mistake - complete with quotes and descriptions of what everyone was doing - when AK was actually acquitted has confirmed to me that you cannot trust one single thing that they print and I will never ever be tempted - even by juicy MN stories - onto their website again.

Sevenfold · 07/10/2011 21:44

yabu
what would the DM haters link to if it was

bubbles4 · 07/10/2011 21:48

Are any of the tabloids any better?It wasnt that long ago the Daily Express had to pay huge fines over their reporting of the Madeline McCann case.

NorfolkBroad · 07/10/2011 21:50

Yes please, worthless pile of crap that it is.

onagar · 07/10/2011 21:51

I thought it strange that the Islamic Human Rights Commission would really go around getting votes for Most Islamophobic Media Personality? that sounded like a childish and troublemaking thing to do and on checking a bit it seems the spoof awards are part of an evening of comedy and satire.

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CheesyWotzits · 07/10/2011 21:51

It can be amusing but that is from someone who doens't take it seriously and I fear I am in the minority.

It has given my Grandma some horribly bigoted views, she takes it very seriously.

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scottishmummy · 07/10/2011 21:53

Don't make me laugh mm would be bereft if no dm
Dm linked daily on mn and a fair few secretly love it,despite all faux protestations

Andrewofgg · 07/10/2011 21:55

Thank you for the correction Nancy - I am sure you are right.

dementedma · 07/10/2011 22:21

What is it with MN and the Daily Mail? When there are red tops like the Sun, the Record etc, all the vitriol aimed at the DM on here makes me laugh. you must all be reading it to be so knowledgeable about it huh?
If you don't like it, don't read it. Even for Guardian readers, surely that's not too difficult to understand?

kazmus · 07/10/2011 22:46

wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that mn founder is married to the editor of the grauniad???? (runs away poking tongue out)

scottishmummy · 07/10/2011 22:48

why do folk on mn misspell grauniad is it an injoke?

BusterGut · 07/10/2011 22:51

It's an old Private Eye joke about the number of spelling errors that used to occur in the Guardian (pre-spell-check!) I think it must have started in the 70s???

scottishmummy · 07/10/2011 22:55

thanks

Spuddybean · 07/10/2011 23:00

i don't - it's good to know your enemy.

smackapacca · 07/10/2011 23:00

My In-Laws read it, and it bothers me that they base their 'knowledge' on immigration etc on The DM. As if it's fact. It isn't.

That's my problem.

lassylass · 08/10/2011 08:46

"My In-Laws read it, and it bothers me that they base their 'knowledge' on immigration etc on The DM. As if it's fact. It isn't."

Its a fact that all political parties now admit that Labour made huge mistakes on immigration. Including Labour.

The only paper really shouting about it over the years was the DM. Not a peep from the Guardian etc. Like it or not, behind each sensationalist fiction in the DM, there is a genuine issue that resonates with the experiences of the general public. Its why the paper is such a guilty secret with MNers.

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CheesyWotzits · 08/10/2011 09:30

, hilarious!!!!

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LisasCat · 08/10/2011 09:51

The Daily Mail has turned my mother into a neurotic bigotted old bag. Every load of tosh that comes out of her mouth can be quoted back directly to that pile of hatred. From moans about illegal immigrants (doesn't matter if they were being tortured by their own government, they still have no right to health care in this country for their mutilated bodies, apparently), to nasty, snide digs about gay people. I would happily burn the offices to the ground with the senior editorial team locked inside.

Although I did laugh when they ran a story about Muslim parents complaining about children's books in classrooms about the gay penguins in NY zoo who adopted a chick. I could just imagine the editorial meeting that morning....
"So we hate Muslims and we hate gays, but who can we side with in this story? Oh, I know, we'll criticise the gay storybook, and then leave it to our narrowminded readership to fill the comments section with phrases like "how dare those bloody Muslim parents tell our teachers how to do their job" and then we've covered all our bases."

smackapacca · 08/10/2011 21:01

Lassy - I think you've missed my point. Misquotations about these kind of issues get stirred up, spat out and told in a certain way. That's my problem.

"1 in 3 muggers are black"

Why not go with "2 in 3 muggers are white"?

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