AIBU to have not refused to buy the Daily Mail

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for my elderly neighbours when I did their shopping today.

I have some lovely elderly neighbours who can't drive any more and I generally offer to get them heavy items like potatoes and milk when I do my shopping.

Today, however, they also asked me to get them a Daily Fail [shock} AIBU to have bought it for them
Or should have just bought the independent and pretended I picked the wrong one up.

I too have bought it for my Mum on occasion but it comes with a stern lecture about how it is all made up incendiary right wing bollocks.
To be fairsShe's not interested in any sort of politics she buys it for the 'health' tips and the celeb gossip.

YANBU to by the daily mail, my DM has read it for as long as I can remember and she, like me, is a very moderate conservative.

Reading the Daily Mail does not stop you taking it's daftest edges with a large ponce of sodium chloride!

I didn't give any sort of lecture but now I know why they come out with things like
"I think they should stop all these foreigners coming into our universities, I mean there won't be enough room for our own" etc etc!

Pinch of,

I'll happily read the Guardian or the independent, but I'm extremely unlikely to believe their left wing bollocks either!

id have been tempted to pretend they didnt have it and buy a different paper instead. Even another shitty tabloid would be preferable, but id buy it out of my own money for her. Maybe I, as thats quite easy to read

I might do that next time Dinah

I wonder what excuse I could come up with though?

yanbu to have bought it for them, it would have been very mean not to. I don't understand why we should avoid certain publications. I rarely agree with anything I read but I still read everything anyway.

All media is propaganda.

yabu

its a fucking newpaper, not meim kampf!!

Are you aware that the DM has shifted to the side of disabled people in the cuts debates? Astounded me too but there you go!

Still loathe the ethos of the paper and never buy it but worth them getting praise over I think; just for refusing to perpetuate the myths about claimants that other media sources are loving.

I don't get the MN hysteria over the Daily Mail since so many posters read it.

It's like they think reading it on line makes them somehow different to those to pay to read it.

It's just a tabloid newspaper and most of them are full of shit anyway.

Hmm

I don;t read any paper- worthy or not- just read links

Buit paying over free has to be different doesn't it? it doesn't exist for a charitable cause after all.

It's the guardian you need to stay away from

They avoid tax and it's full of lefty frothers

I browse daily mail website at dinner, for the celeb gossip.

I think you should definitely have bought the paper they asked for. Its no business of yours what they read. Oh and get a life

It's a vile rag, but If they have reached old age and are still as you described, "lovely" it can't have done them too much harm!

Bit harsh, anotherstressfulmorning - I think the OP was created in a lighthearted manner.

I just don't get this obsession on MN with the DM - it's weird. Presumably your neighbours are old enough to make up their own minds. It would have been incredibly patronising not to have bought it. However, I suspect the OP's post wasn't entirely genuine. Do we all have to profess hatred for DM to show that we are sufficiently intelligent, liberal etc to join the MN club - that's what kids do - ie be conformist in non conformism so that they can 'fit in'.....

Perhaps they find it cheaper than bog roll

Anotherstressfulmorning I think you should definitely have bought the paper they asked for. Its no business of yours what they read. Oh and get a life

Hmm, it was just a lighthearted thread and you seem to have taken it all rather seriously. My first biscuit too!

worra funny

Oh I totally sympathise.

For family I would refuse on principle to buy it (and do, as my Mother reads it but not on the days I go to the papershop!)

For a neighbour/ friend I would suck it up through gritted teeth.

No isn't it up to them what they read.

It is indeed up to them what they read but I have to listen to endless angry and totally unfounded rants about immigrants, child abductors and the benefit scroungers, in the main fuelled by some DM article for that day.
I suppose I am just being a bit selfish
Just for the record they watch the wright stuff too