Daily Mail reading, middle-class centre-right winger?

[rufussmum]

Just asking...
not me though (adds hastily).

[Rufus43]

I read the DM 2 to 3 times a week. I read The Times 4 to 5 times a week. And the Independent on my iPod. I buy the Mail as a comic, most of what it reports is a load of bollocks, but then I think that's the case with most newspapers. I watch the BBC news and Channel 4 most days and choose what i believe from a range of sources. I think the main reason I read it is because it was/is the paper of choice in my parents house.

[SigmundFraude]

I read it. I'm a middle(ish) class right winger.

I seriously don't care what the MN jury think.

[Weegiemum]

My fil gets it and cuts out the "medical" articles for dh (who is a doctor). Dh occasionally flips through the envelope of cuttings if he needs a laugh!

[Arisbottle]

Not middle class or right wing but read the mail. As I said on the other thread I suspect most people who read a paper every day, in the Internet age, read a few papers.

I read Mail, Indpendent, Telegraph and Guardian, am not defined by my paper.

[Chipstick10]

I couldn't give a monkeys toss what the mumsnet jury think either.

[Arisbottle]

I am always on the wrong side of the MN journey, it convinces me that I am at least consistent . The day the MN jury approves of me is the day I start to worry.

[fanjoforthemammaries7850]

"it's got great articles"

LOL at this great sarcasm

[magimedi]

Never, ever, ever will I read that paper. And it pisses me off mightily if there is a link that I click & it goes to DM.

It's just so vile........... and I need to breathe & go to bed now.

[SignoraStronza]

My mil reads it (although she says only for the puzzles) and I take perverse pleasure in leaving it down for the puppy to piss on at night

I'll admit to occasional perusal online, but cross check some of the stories with a proper newspaper.

OT but am quite into Al Jazeera on tv/online at the moment. Makes a refreshing change when the BBC is having a dull rolling news day.

[carabos]

I'm not defined by my choice of paper. I read the Telegraph and the Guardian .

Magazines I take Horse and Hound and Vanity Fair. I read Hello! in the hairdresser's.

Travelling I take Private Eye and the Spectator.

Sunday it's the Sunday Times.

I never, ever read the DM!

[Arisbottle]

I never read the DM until I started posting on here, but this place is like a DM chat room. I find I understand it better if I have read the DM.

[ExitPursuedByABear]

I am quite capable of reading something without agreeing with it.

Know thine enemy

[ComposHat]

I take perverse pleasure in leaving it down for the puppy to piss on at night

I am tempted to buy the Daily Mail specifically to line the cat's litter tray, so I can wake up every morning and see a freshly crimped shite on Peter Hitchens/Liz Jones/Simon Heffer/Melanie Phillips's face.

[rufussmum]

Reading DM in the name of research is admirable Arisbottle.
Rufus43 - are you my son/daughter/mother?

[navada]

The vast majority of Mumsnet read the daily mail. It's so obvious, it's linked to 50 times a week.

[PatPig]

I read the DM every day online. I have never bought it.

I used to buy the Guardian every day, despite being middle-class and right-wing.

[SirBoobAlot]

I hate the fucking thing. It couldn't get more blatantly hate filled if it tried. And as a disabled single mother without a job, living on benefits, they pretty much want me strung up anyway.

My dad reads it. We have regular arguments about this, because he tries to persuade me it's ''not as bad as you think'' .

[PatPig]

I'm pretty sure the Daily Express is more blatantly hate-filled.

[Tryharder]

I read the Mail online and the Guardian online. Wouldn't describe myself as middle class, went to a polytechnic and am a floating voter (voted Labour in county council and local elections and Tory in national election and Green before that)

A lot of the mail articles are total crap but the website is brilliantly designed, easy to read with lots of interesting articles and that's why it's popular. It's popularity has little to do with the political views of its readers.

The guardian website is dull in comparison.

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

I tend to avoid it as much as possible as it really really annoys me esp as DH is forrin.

I must read it sometimes because I've reported them to the Press Complaints Commission twice!

[Iwantmybed]

When I worked in the newsagents, DM was the most popular paper and outsold the others by double. Perhaps that says more about the majority of white retired customers that frequented.

[Rufus43]

rufusmum sorry no relation! Cool name though!

[rufussmum]

Can't be true that most MNers read DM as the other thread about Guardian/lefties has loads more replies than this one.
Are DM people more measured, considered and reticent to express their views then?