To think MNers are hypocrites when it comes to the Daily Mail?

[SnowWide]

You read it, I read it, we all read it (um..read in the loosest sense of the word) but admit it, we all have a dirty little Daily Mail habit.

So what's with all the grovelling apologies? "sorry for DM link" "klaxon Daily Fail alert". Why not take it for what it is? Ajoke of a newspaper that is crass and xenophobic, but nevertheless is hugely entertaining and popular? No need to feel ashamed, people...

I am SnowWide and I read the Daily mail.

Research....ahh yes. Of course, gordy. I used to do some "in-depth research" first thing in the morning, on the Daily Mail website (trying to stop blushing, failing miserably)

It was like scoffing 5 doughnuts in one go- you know youre going to regret it later, but just cant seem to stop...

Not everyone reads it. It is junk and their ahem 'reporting' is shoddy.

I have never purchased a dm newspaper but used to read avidly online - no longer do and I haven't looked back.
There is better celeb gossip elsewhere on the web, you just have to find one that suits you

I don't read it but I don't judge people who choose to!

However the reason why I think it is appropriate for people to apologise and warn for Daily Mail links is the DM's current editorial policy for online articles: Perhaps you'll have noticed that the articles that appear on the DM website are not word-for-word the same as the ones printed online? The online articles are deliberately written to be more inflamatory and shocking (and with much less respect for the truth) as a way to boost the organisations advertising revenue. The business model they have is to write SHOCK HORROR articles so that people like us will be SHOCKED and post links to the article on places like mumsnet, so hundreds if not thousands of us will click and for each of us that does so the Daily Mail gets a few pence, which all adds up to thousands of pounds. Each Daily Mail link on this website generates £££ of clicks and revenue for the daily mail, and some of us prefer not to be a part of such cynical manipulation.

I absolutely agree OP - except for the fact I genuinely don't read any newspapers online or otherwise.

But if I did, I certainly wouldn't be apologising for my choice.

What makes me laugh the most is when people say they 'picked up a copy of the DM at their MIL's house' or they picked it up 'at the hairdressers'...etc.

If you read it then you read it - no need for excuses.

feersum true about online edition. Much, much more provocative than its print sibling. A bit like Prince Will and Prince "sweetcheeks" Harry!!

I confess I read the Liz Jones articles from the DM, but only when they're linked to from here. I wouldn't go and search them out myself, or read anything else.

YABU.

My name is FolkGirl and I don't read the Daily Mail.

I did once open up the copy on the counter at the chip shop just to see if it was as bad as people on here made out. There was a huge double page spread about a benefit cheating, scum family with half a million children. I scanned it and yes, there were references to huge tellies and forrin holidays. I think it ticked all the boxes.

So I closed it up again and that was the first and last time I have ever read the DM.

I don't read any newspapers online.

I had to read it for work, which gave me a delightful moral high-ground from which to enjoy it. And by god it's enjoyable, fabulously provocative and filled with trash in equal measures.

It is quite simply the most brilliantly-designed media website in the world - someone described it as 'click bait' and it's totally true - there is always something on the sidebar that you'll want to click on. It's also run pretty seperately from the paper DM. I doff my cap to them: it is absolutely fir for purpose.

But if you read it regularly like I (ahem) had to, the immigrant and women-hating start to really, really get to you. Like crystal meth, it'll destroy eventually.

Oh no, MrsBovary, someone with your name and reading Liz? Slumming it are we? . Sorry Liz Jones articles are a farce now. She wasnt as bad as this, I remember..

Oh - and another thing - they regularly steal features off other websites, rewrite them slightly and don't link to the original. I'm always reading features on Jezebel and finding them again in the DM altered slightly in content, and crucially, in politics

It's fucking rude to the original journo/blogger - making money off other people's hard work.

MrsBovary there is a very, very funny 'hate' group on Digital spy who regularly take Liz Jones's features apart and show her totally mad inconsistencies.

No I don't read it. Not a hypocrite (about this one, anyway).

I don't. I stopped for Lent as I refuse to give them any more web-clicks.

Their women hating and mocking was too much for me so I stopped . They only do it because we click.

Ah now see - MrsBovary - I do not read Liz Jones. She makes me feel kind of dirty.