To wonder if any of you read the Daily Mail as a 'guilty pleasure'?

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I am new to MN and have noticed the repeated references to the DM and readers of it as being bigoted, racist and generally beyond redemption. This surprises me as my impression of MN is that its membership, whereas diverse in some respects, mainly comprises those middle of the road, middle class females who work hard at their careers, marriages, families etc: in short, exactly the sort of people I would expect to read the DM.

The DM has a huge circulation and somebody must be buying it. So hands up all those who have this 'guilty pleasure'.

Btw, I confess to buying the DM on Sundays, as I really like the mag.

Yes, yes - he was in a lap dancing club.
Long story. One of his least fav evenings involving a distress call from a close friend whose wife walked out on him and a badly judged 'cheer up' outing from mates who got him pissed then left him with a £400 bill.

Dh picked him up, brought him home. But enjoyed watching the tantric twosomes trying to sneak in

I am explaining myself as dm reader with lap dance buying dh would cast me into a particular corner of mn hell -wouldn't it.

I've had the app for ages, I've not had to pay for it. Maybe they forgot to bill me.

Pag, get thyself to the Sin Bin.

Well I subscribe to The Times & The Sunday Times but you can't beat the DM online to give you a brief rundown of current unimportant events. I'm not a twat I can see through their angle but then again I find the Bbc stance almost worse in its leftist patronising stance. As for the Guardian, the jobs page makes me shake with laughter on a regular basis. No wonder the country's in a mess, Haringey Council seems to have created all sorts of made up jobs.

My parents read it. They only have to say 'In the paper yesterday, it said...' and my heart sinks as some xenophopic shit comes winging my way.

I remember the old, Mirror-reading when they were both rabid socialists. That paper has turned them, I tell you, comrades.

Guardian reader here.

"The Daily Mail is misogynistic, misleading, sensationalist and celebrity-obsessed. It reflects and encourages everything we ought to be ashamed of about Britain, including the racism and bigotry that is still rife, despite us being a supposedly civilized nation"

That's exactly why their website is part of my daily reading regime. I find it healthy and enlightening to not only read things that agree with my point of view or moral/value system. It's hard to debate or have any knowledge of ongoing current events if you just read the things that suit your point of view, sometimes you need to know what others think.

Also,there articles make for the best online debate fodder. LOL. Grin

I'll fess up I read it if I come across a copy or whatnot. As Edmund Blackadder said " I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me I'm best."

So it's snobby middle class mums looking down on their parents by not reading the daily mail now op?

I grew up reading the guardian in a council house. Just because someone is working class doesn't automatically mean they read tabloids. How divisive and stereotypical is that view?

Nope. And I now refuse to click on links to the DM from here too - helps my blood-pressure and is my small stand in reducing their web traffic!

I used to look at the ghastly stories linked to on here. I no longer do because no matter what my intention in looking, the click through still boosts their google rankings and profile amongst advertisers, and I don't want to contribute to that.

x posted with Bramshott.

Have also stopped reading the Telegraph recently as it is turning into the Daily Mail in broadsheet form.

Great minds GM!

There is a comedic value to the DM now which is appropriate given the amount fof vitriol and lies its spouted over the years.
Old but still funny;

We buy & read it I actually love it in all its misogynistic, misleading, bigoted, sensationalist glory -

I'm not easily lead, can make my own mind up & realised after buying & reading that new incredibly bland "i" newspaper that I actually prefer a paper I don't agree with, something to snarl & laugh at over my coffee DH likes it for the same reason - its a bit of a news"comic" more than a newspaper, but we like it like that around here

I read it, but I don't take it seriously and I know several people who take it with a pinch of salt.

I read a copy with my mum; she had picked it up on the way home as it was left on the bus.

It is hilarious. There were at least 6 or 7 articles dedicated to ludicrous health scares. Approximately the same devoted to 'Broken Britain'. The rest was eleven nonsense. How we chuckled.

However, if anyone reads it and actually believes it, or uses it as some kind of moral or political compass, then I definitely judge them for simply being thick as shit.

• sleb not eleven!

I read it if it's in a coffee shop or something and there's nothing else. Just to annoy myself, really.

I definitely never deface it, damage it, or cross out the M and pop a little F over the top of it.

why on earth would anyone feel guilty for reading a newspaper

sometimes i read it, sometimes i dont
sometimes i agree with the articles, sometimes i dont

whats to feel guilty about surely if you didnt like it, you wouldnt go within 100 yards of it. I know i dont with papers I dont like

I don't think anyone should feel guilty for reading a newspaper

Hell yeah! Where else would you find coverage of A house that looks like Hitler? Britain's first bunny show jumping competition? A strictly come dancing bunny calendar, and the headline 'Bunny Bin Laden'?