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To ask MNers never to link to or open a link to the Daily Mail?

81 replies

TurdusMerula · 04/04/2013 08:59

For it is a vile, hate-preaching, lie-spreading rag, and every click helps them carry on being a vile, hate-preaching, lie-spreading rag.

Even if it's a click simply to see the latest example of disgusting and wrong they are, or the latest nonsense from the latest vacuous columnist - please do not be part of their massive online audience.

This is something we can all do. Yes, perhaps a wee sacrifice, to forego that glow of righteous anger - but we can see what they are saying without ever needing to click on their fucking website.

If you don't think IABU, please join me. Thank you.

I will never again link to or open a link to the Daily Mail.

OP posts:
MrsOakenshield · 04/04/2013 09:47

but some of the responses on this thread, twittering on about stupid articles to justify their reading of this foul rag, suggests that some Mners, at least, are.

Lovelygoldboots · 04/04/2013 09:55

They have used those childrens deaths for their own ends. Not to report facts like a newspaper but to spread hate. It has really upset me to be honest. They really have gone too far this time.

yousankmybattleship · 04/04/2013 09:56

Or MrsOak people are taking the piss because they are bored of yet another thread about the Daily Mail and are, in fact, intelligent enough to chose which paper to read for themselves.

Lovelygoldboots · 04/04/2013 10:01

Well what is your view of yesterday's front page battleship. Is that acceptable to you? Because it wasn't to me and I think it is valid to discuss it. Sorry if its boring.

CajaDeLaMemoria · 04/04/2013 10:08

It was discussed. Everywhere, by everyone. There is nothing left to say that hasn't been said, argued against and concluded.

Everyone was disgusted yesterday. The online site had changed its headline by mid morning.

But the implication that you support that if you read the DM is ridiculous. Even the DM thinks it's ridiculous. They get most of their traffic, by far, from their celebrity sidebar. Which is why that dominates the online site. They get worldwide traffic for that sidebar.

The actual newspaper is a different kettle of fish and is aimed at a completely different demographic.

CajaDeLaMemoria · 04/04/2013 10:09

*DM online.

yousankmybattleship · 04/04/2013 10:10

I think yesterday's front page was apalling. I don't buy the Mail and I don't like its politics. I think this is a rediculous thread though. It isn't opening up a new or interesting debate it is just asking people not to click on links to the Mail.

monica77798 · 04/04/2013 10:20

I agree with ophelia275. If you don't want to read it then don't read it, but leave other people to read what they want and form their own opinions.

gabsid · 04/04/2013 10:37

The DM represents the views of a lot of people in the UK, its a very popular paper, it has a part in shaping opinions and politics. I look at it to see what the DM (many people) think. Sometimes it makes me sad and shocked how right wing it is, but I feel if I ignore it I miss out on what is going on. It might not be my opinion, but a lot of people think that way.

ophelia275 · 04/04/2013 10:40

QueenBIWI "So you see yesterday's front page as just 'a bit of news'? Please engage your brain before you make comments like that. The Daily Mail has an agenda way, way beyond showbiz gossip."

And anyone with half a brain looks at several news sources and makes up their own mind, they don't think that the Daily Mail is the only source of "news". Unless you are totally stupid you wouldn't give the Daily Mail any more credence than you think it is worth. If you are stupid enough to take any pronouncements that the Daily Mail make seriously, then it is no wonder that the Daily Mail is apparently (according to MN) so powerful! All these MN threads about the DM just fuel the fire for the DM - remember controversy = more sales.

crashdoll · 04/04/2013 10:45

YABU. I can do what I bloody well like! (I like reading the frothy comments on the DM online. The outrage makes me laugh.)

LynetteScavo · 04/04/2013 10:48

yousankmybattleship Thu 04-Apr-13 09:56:48
"Or MrsOak people are taking the piss because they are bored of yet another thread about the Daily Mail and are, in fact, intelligent enough to chose which paper to read for themselves."

Thank you.

KansasCityOctopus · 04/04/2013 10:50

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QueenBIWI · 04/04/2013 11:03

ophelia - I wonder how many DM supporters really do look at several news sources though? Somehow I doubt it.

lenfer · 04/04/2013 11:10

It's the attempts to control how other people post on MN which are really frightening.

LynetteScavo · 04/04/2013 16:02

Personally, I choose not to have sky, read the Times ect, because I think RM is a sleeze bag, and I don't want him to have a penny of my money. You lot can do what you like.

Netguru · 04/04/2013 16:07

Second most read newspaper in the UK by choice not compulsion. Odds are quite a few people in here choose to read it yet you want to censor them?

Who has an agenda?

Chipstick10 · 04/04/2013 16:15

I buy the mail on Saturday, I like the articles. I also read the sun and loathe the guardian. Oh and I have sky and wouldn't be without it.

muffinmonster · 04/04/2013 16:26

Yes, everyone's entitled to read the DM if they wish. Personally I don't read it and don't want to read it, but as others have pointed out you don't always know until you click on a link where it is going to lead you.

To avoid unknowingly clicking through to the DM I now use Kitten Block, a browser plug-in that blocks the DM and takes you to pictures of tea and kittens instead. It's brilliant, and has saved me hours of impotent rage. It's available for Firefox here and Chrome here.

LynetteScavo · 04/04/2013 16:50

I didn't know about thatmuffinmonster. Thank you Smile

higgle · 04/04/2013 16:58

I read it and will continue to, don't agree with it most of the time, all the Samantha Brick nonsense and the "I put my career before having a baby now its too late and I'm living a life of misery" stuff. I like the celeb stuff and the beauty/fashion - and it is free. What I can't stand is sanctimonious people who want to stop freedom of speech and think not buying Kettle Chips will solve anything.

OhLori · 04/04/2013 18:50

I think the Daily Mail haters on MN are really beginning to lose it Hmm.

MrsBW · 04/04/2013 18:53

No thanks.

I may not agree with some of it but I believe a free press should be just that.

Fenton · 04/04/2013 18:56

Oh please do calm down with all this, it was an 'ask' not a demand, just to stop and think about how DM benefits from every click and how appalling some if their articles/headlines are and do they really deserve a penny for their trash?

That's all, just stop and think.

thebody · 04/04/2013 19:03

calm down dear! i will choose what I like to read or not. Don't actually read the DM as too tight to buy any paper but each to their own.

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