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

[rufussmum]

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

rufus it's not called "the silent majority" for nothing.

Don't read it, wouldn't buy it, don't check the website - anymore.

I used to use it and The Sun's articles a lot when I was teaching (especially lower sets) as the wording was more simple. The views are good for getting discussions going. Also for showing how language can manipulate readers into seeing things from one point of view!!

Not patronising much.

I have Kitten Block on my pc so avoid many links. I can't get it to work on my phone, though, does anyone know an Android equivalent?

One of the reasons the circulation figures are so high is because it is given away free in a lot of places eg on all BA flights, which account for tens of thousands of copies. That drives up the advertising revenue which keeps the rag afloat.

Yes, I can proudly tick all three of those boxes :)

Is the dm mc though? I wouldn't have thought it was (being that it is trash on top of the bigotry)

It's very middle class.

Remember this, from Yes Minister?

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

LOL

& I do remember it!

I find that the DM readers I know have narrow social circles. Knowing actual poor/forrin/gay/disabled people tends to put one off.

But they do include you in their narrow social circles though, Horry?

I wouldn't go so far as to say reading the DM is research . But I know no one in real life who is like most mumsnetters- or the vocal ones anyway. I also know few people in real life who hold DM type views . I find MM and the Daily Mail both baffling and fascinating and similar.

Yes, but I am like them (SAHM, white British, mc, etc). It's just that I have friends who aren't. So when I read a DM article (very rare) I think "but that means H" and it is harder to accept.

I read it online. I like to think I'm intelligent enough to form my own opinions. I'm not a benefit basher, I'm pro immigration and wise enough to not believe everything that's written.

IamMrsElf I too used it as a teaching aid (The Sun) for TEFL in Asia 20 years ago. Idioms galore!

My social circle includes household names, a bollywood actress, models, politicos, cowboys, red-necks, off-gridders, UN/NATO, mercenaries, MSF aid workers, etc., etc. I have mixed in the most extraordinary circles - and yet most have "DM views".

Like it or not, the Guardian does not represent the view of the majority.

I love the celeb gossip on mail online and have to say I do enjoy the clegg bashing.

Have never bought it but my nan does whenever I had a flick through the stories had already been in the daily star the day before- I read the star for the gossip, just Jane and sport please don't judge I have reformed lol.

Plus whenever I have a down day reading Melanie Phillips makes me realise I am quite a nice person after all.

Ivor - yes I have Rufus. Fab name indeed. Means 'red'. I think there was a King Rufus somewhere.

never laughed so much ,ever ! the middle class read the dm >well that explains everything ! the meaning of life even.

andu - no one ever said you have to be intelligent to be middle class. The DM caters for pearl clutchers who don't want to trouble their pretty little heads with anything more taxing than how great Britain used to be and how the Riff Raff are bringing it down, though not quite as much as the cellulite hanging off the thighs of some unfortunate sleb. Financial news and the finer subtleties of UK and international politics are for the clever menfolk.

I read it because I like to remain informed.

Donkey, I agree that they are varied, but not a lot of disadvantaged people in that list.

I loathe the Guardian. It's readers think they are so superior to everyone else. At least Daily Mail readers have no such illusions.

What a horribly patronising thread. What on earth do you lot sound like, shaking your heads at the silly illiterate fools who read the mail or the sun, from your right on, superior, guardian reading right on bubble. Snearing at mother in laws and father in laws, and sniggering at half wit students who can just about understand the simple text in the sun.