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AIBU?

To be upset that ILs read the Daily Mail?

64 replies

anniroc · 04/04/2013 16:34

Each to their own obviously, but they clearly believe what is written in it. MIL sometimes comes out with stuff like 'Isn't the Human Rights Act awful because it allows criminals to do X' and DH recently had to take FIL to task as he was ranting about Romanian immigrants with large council houses. DH explained that this isn't the norm.

Added to this, the recent death of the transsexual teacher hounded by the DM and yesterdays headline about the welfare state being responsible for the Philpots's actions (!!!!), AIBU?

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limitedperiodonly · 04/04/2013 17:25

The Mail spends a great deal of money on its stable of serious writers: Simon Heffer, Stephen Glover, A.N. Wilson, Max Hastings, Dominic Sandbrook (bit of a joke, that one) etc.

Fucking tedious all of them. But it gives the paper an air of gravitas even though most readers must skip those pages.

Heffer was elegantly vicious in the Telegraph then he moved to the Mail and they let him ramble.

I like Andrew Pierce though.

determinedma · 04/04/2013 17:37

MN is obsessed with hating the DM, yet quotes it when there is an "approved" article as in the recent thread on the Rosa Monckton article on raising a child with SN. And yet there is never any condemnation of rags like the Sun, the People, the Record etc. I read the DM - so fucking what?

Shagmundfreud · 04/04/2013 17:39

YANBU

My MIL reads it and believes all the shit that's in it.

limitedperiodonly · 04/04/2013 17:55

I don't understand the point about the Rosa Monckton piece. I didn't click it but I gather it was about the bullying of a child with Down's Syndrome.

Of course people here sympathised with it. It doesn't make them hypocrites just because it was in the Daily Mail.

Chipstick10 · 04/04/2013 18:00

But so what if someone' parents or daughter or gran believes whats in it. You all say it in such a totally patronising way. Like you all know best and what you read or believe in is the correct way. That's a real problem on mumsnet is it not!

limitedperiodonly · 04/04/2013 18:00

And I seen condemnation of The Record on here and when I've followed the links I can see why. It's bigoted and cheap.

The Daily Mail is bigoted and has enough money to pay for writers who can dress it up.

Purple2012 · 04/04/2013 18:04

People are not bigots because they read the DM. They are just bigots. I get a bit sick of DM bashing threads really. It smacks of 'I'm so great and liberal because I hate the DM'

As I have said on yet another DM bashing thread today. I sometimes read it, I don't often buy a paper but if I do it will be the DM. They have some fantastic historical stories that I really enjoy. Reading it doesn't make me anti immigrants/police/benefits. I am a mature adult. I form my own views on things and I don't get swayed by propaganda in a newspaper.

limitedperiodonly · 04/04/2013 18:20

purple I don't usually join in Mail-bashing either and I don't particularly like the OP which I find schoolmarmish.

My friend worked for the Department of Health under Labour and they wouldn't have the Daily Mail in their office. I thought it was bonkers. You should know your enemy.

However, while you may not be swayed, many people are.

The Mail is horrifyingly small-minded, mean and bigoted. The older I get, the more I think people like it because that's what most people are like.

MyDarlingClementine · 04/04/2013 18:26

oh my goodness, I wish this was the only thing I had to take my in laws to task on.

HeySoulSister · 04/04/2013 18:28

Lol at the op attempting to act all outraged and superior!

PollyEthelEileen · 04/04/2013 18:33

Not only are you being unreasonable, OP - you are being pathetic.

Do we not live in a free country?

You might feel the need to be open-minded about whatever high-horse the DM is on, but surely the rights you are defending are the same rights that DM readers have.

Also, has it occurred to you that many people read several newspapers in order to get a balanced view of issues? I know this was how I was brought up (my DF had a right wing and left wing paper delivered everyday and four on Sundays - it is so much easier with online papers).

Nancy66 · 04/04/2013 18:39

Arrange to have them killed OP.

OhLori · 04/04/2013 18:43

The Human Rights Act does sometimes give criminals licence to do X. And immigrants often do get first choice for new social housing in this country as they get lots of "points". So to me your ILs are making fair points.

But even if you disagree with them, I think they are entitled to buy whatever paper they like. I doubt their political views are that influenced by it anyway, people tend to know what they think based on their own observation and experience, e.g. the anomaly of Labour voters buying The Sun.

CommanderShepard · 04/04/2013 18:44

My parents have finally stopped buying it thanks to the horrid "coverage" of the Liverpool Care Pathway. Mum's a palliative care nurse...

EyePad · 04/04/2013 18:47

YABU I love the Fail. Take much of it with a pinch of salt, but enjoy the read. You don't have to read it though? O even pay attention to what PIL say about what they have read/believe.

limitedperiodonly · 04/04/2013 18:51

Nancy66 Honestly.

Call it Stockholm Syndrome but I swing between the Land of the Po and admiration for the ruthless efficiency of Daily Mail Island.

ophelia275 · 04/04/2013 18:52

My sister's friends mother's cousin reads the Guardian and she seems to be in a permanent state of apoplexy as apparently the Cameron government are kidnapping little black and Muslim children and feeding them alive to evil Nazi capitalist bankers at the yearly Global Warming Denial conference!

limitedperiodonly · 04/04/2013 19:10

Are you aware that the Daily Mail despises Dave because they think he's too liberal ophelia?

Do try harder.

Nancy66 · 04/04/2013 19:11

...and that Dacre and Gordon Brown are bezzies....

Chipstick10 · 04/04/2013 19:12

Lol ophelia. The guardian brings me out in hives.

hotcrosbum · 04/04/2013 19:17

My inlaws read the sun.

News condensed into words of two syllables in little boxes with overuse of the word 'pedo'.

FierceBadIggi · 04/04/2013 19:21

I can tell when my dm has been reading the DM by the crap things she comes out with.

Chipstick10 · 04/04/2013 19:26

Yes us thicko's love the sun.

pamelat · 04/04/2013 19:27

My parents buy it on a Saturday

My DH gives them a jokey hard time about their right wing paper but they buy it for it's tv guide!

I don't think that they're fussed either way about the bias.

You can read an article though, aware of it's bias, consciously strip it to fact and judge for yourself. Just because you read a paper it doesn't align you with their views?

Nancy66 · 04/04/2013 19:27

..actually it's 'paedo'

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