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to read the Mail Online?

38 replies

Uppatreecuppatea · 12/03/2013 22:29

I know I'm going to read that XYZ is going to "flaunt her curves" in a "slinky deisnger" dress at a "red carpet premiere"....

but I can't help it! I'm drawn to it like a moth to a flame.

Why doesn't a less mysogynistic, less right wing and equally gossipy but great value website give them a challenge?

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Willow36 · 13/03/2013 13:48

YANBU. I confessed to a friend that I read it purely for the "sidebar of shame" and she blushed as she pulled out her phone to show me she does exactly the same.

I mainly look at the photos.

I try to go a few days without looking but I just can't seem to. I also like playing "spot the true story"...they sometimes through one in amongst the made up crap.

Lottapianos · 13/03/2013 13:50

YAB very U. But then so am I Grin I can't help myself either. I'm so ashamed Blush

I read somewhere that it's the most accessed website in the whole world

Tortington · 13/03/2013 13:52

you are funding an evil empire

yabu

clutterfly · 13/03/2013 13:52

I do too. Love the 'sidebar of shame'.
Drives me bonkers the way the 'journalists' create a story out of the pics though:
'She was holding a bag'
'She TEAMED a black top with blue jeans'.
It's TEAMED this and TEAMED that. Does my head in.
Point of example:

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2292406/January-Jones-stylish-black-white-striped-trousers-carries-colourfully-dressed-son-Xander.html

Yes, we are not blind DM!!
Urrghh!

clutterfly · 13/03/2013 13:53

I mean just look at the name of that link 'carries colourfully dressed son...'.
I rest my case.

Sugarice · 13/03/2013 13:54

It's currently obsessed with the Kardashian clan, there are at least 3 or 4 stories per day about this lot.

I read it and look at the pictures but don't tend to believe a lot of what is written, it's my guilty pleasure I'm ashamed to admit.

StephaniePowers · 13/03/2013 13:55

In all seriousness, YABU.

You - YOU - are contributing to a journalistic culture which is one of the most insidious barriers to equality for women which not only still exists (shameful enough) but is worsening and deepening its attacks in response to the number of clicks the website gets from people who think it's just a guilty pleasure.

Beamur · 13/03/2013 13:56

My DP is obsessed with the Mail Online - but I think he spends his time emailing them vitriolic emails and adding trolling comments in a Lefty manner.

HappyGirlNow · 13/03/2013 14:04

Me too Blush

Shinyshoes1 · 13/03/2013 14:08

I think it's the best laid out paper there is online . Its very easy to read
Yanbu

oohlaalaa · 13/03/2013 14:14

I would never buy the Daily Mail, the articles annoy the heck out of me, and yet I still return to the site. It really is porn.

GreenLeafTea · 13/03/2013 14:17

I read that the online Daily Mail gets 10 million unique hits a month.

I'm also an addict but have learnt not to link to it on Facebook as friends judge you Blush

Bakingnovice · 13/03/2013 14:18

Omg. NO no noooooo. YabvvvvvU.

GreenLeafTea · 13/03/2013 14:19

Also I hate the app. It takes forever to load the pics and it cuts off the headlines. The full site is much better as you can scan the headlines more quickly.

StephaniePowers · 13/03/2013 14:21

I think actually what upsets me most about the Mail Online - more even than the cultivation of their middle-fingered attitude to equality) is that they write that shit and laugh at you for reading it.

drownangels · 13/03/2013 14:23

You can read what you want but don't act like a twat when you put links up and say 'sorry, it's the daily '

curiousgeorgie · 13/03/2013 17:08

I love the daily mail online.

They managed to get three separate articles out of the same picture of Kim Kardashian and that is pretty amazing!

They also stalk Jennifer Garner and make sly little comments about how she does all the work. Which in fairness she does seem to!

It's my guilty pleasure :)

Southeastdweller · 13/03/2013 20:16

There's some good articles and shit ones. I don't feel embarrassed for reading it - there's much worse stuff online.

The 'sorry for the Mail link' thing on here makes me cringe.

goodtoesnaughtytoes · 13/03/2013 20:31

My hairdresser told me about this and now I am addicted. Tis truly terrible and shameful Blush

AnonymousBird · 13/03/2013 20:35

Oh God, but January Jones looks AWFUL!!! Those trousers are vile!

tollyandfeste · 13/03/2013 20:36

I am totally addicted, our whole office read it during lunch. It is our guilty secret. One of our clan admitted it to our 'equality and diversity lead' (yes I work for the government) and he had was genuinely shocked and stated that ' he didn't think he would ever meet someone who actually read the mail' !!! The next week copies of the guardian casually appeared in the canteen Wink

Mrsrobertduvall · 13/03/2013 20:46

Yes me too.
I do like the arts review on a Friday Grin

Pontouf · 13/03/2013 20:52

Totally agree with StephaniePowers
You are all perpetuating this shit. Honestly they must have soooo little respect for the people who read it, surely? Oh let's just stick any old shit up, never mind that it is woman hating bollocks, it's the women who read it! The sidebar of shame is no better than Heat magazine and the ilk with their fat/thin/bikini bodies crap and who looks the most shit in an outfit. The actual articles are so badly researched that many of them have no basis in reality.
I once worked with a bloke who had a story written about him by the Daily Mail. There were 17 factual inaccuracies in one small piece - some of them were extremely serious. I come from a family of journalists and the fact that this is considered journalism makes me want to weep.

Urgh!!!!