to be INCENSED with the Mail Online?

[Mintyy]

Look, I know its a horrible right wing rag with a very questionable attitude towards women and this is the reason why I don't read it regularly ...

but I want to know if it is possible to do something to stop its lurid, wanton and totally unnecessary coverage of unspeakable animal cruelty cases!

I don't look at it all that often but every time I do there is some horrific story on there including pictures with NO WARNING. I can't recommend that you look at it today (very very upsetting banner headline including pictures) but I hope some of you will so that you know what I mean.

If I tweeted I would be twittering about this right now! Is there anything else the ordinary punter can do? Can I complain via the website? I can't face going back on there just now.

Don't click it.

Complain to the IPSO if you are concerned about the content.

I agree. I am a teacher in an international school in Spain and advise many of my students to read the news online to help develop their English. I recommend other (broadsheet) websites to them but I know some of them like to look on the DM as they love the celebrity stories. However I would not want them seeing lurid photographs of animal cruelty.

Newspapers must have a regulator? (Sorry to be so clueless). Or you could write to them directly or email them.

I didn't have to click it to see it Squeezy. This is partly what has made me so very angry.

Apparently if it is taste and decency related but within the realms of regulation, you must complain to the editor of the individual publication. Shouldn't think you need to click through and read to do that.

Write outraged letter to DM (if you can't beat 'em and all... )

Out of interest, though, why did you get to see said 'article', and do you consider it any more 'unnecessary' than other DM 'content'?

I believe the online bit is separate from the paper bit and entirely unregulated (I might be wrong). options are

• don't go there
• complain to advertisers
• really don't go there.

Sorry, by "don't click it", I mean, don't navigate to the DM in the first place. You know it is full of inflammatory shite, so why expose yourself to it?

It is the banner headline in today's Mail Online, as I said JulyKit.

No! I don't think "don't go there" is good enough.

I saw it (I hate myself that I even look at their homepage) and didn't open the article but saw an extremely distressing photo nonetheless.

I'm more distressed by the fact that it's actually happening than by the fact that it's covered in a newspaper.

It's absolutely horrible.
I wish I could unsee it.

the story is absolutely horrifying, those poor, poor animals.

If the Mail are starting a campaign to actually do something about this loathesome trade, then they are going about it in completely the wrong way, imo. They will just turn people away from the site in their droves. You can't hide pictures you don't want to see.

I think I know which story you are on about ( I am reluctant to go back to the DM to see if its now the 'headline' as the story I saw earlier is ingrained on my mind)

Ive just driven home thinking just why they would need to publish such a horrific story

Do you remember the Canadian psychopath who killed and dismembered a Japanese student (I think it was). They traced him because he posted a video online of himself feeding a live kitten to a python? Well guess who put the video up on their website with a big white arrow inviting you to click? The fucking Mail Online.

Mintyy I put the homepage up to see if anything about the aircraft escorted into Stanstead ......but met that horrific headline .
Fortunately managed to scroll quickly but caught the words .
Will haunt me now and wish so much I could unread. The capacity of the human race for cruelty is beyond belief .

I am torn on this.
I understand that it is very difficult to look at these pictures.
I am glad that awareness is being raised though.
If I weren't already vegetarian photos like these would surely change my mind.

I know the story you're talking about, OP - not the details, cos I scrolled past it and didn't look at the pic even though it was right there in front of me. They do this all the time, upsetting animal cruelty stories that are impossible to avoid completely. Gawd knows why I visit the site - if I could find an alternative that had so much content in easily digestible lumps, and allowed comments, I'd swap. As it is I read the MO with an eye for its bias and sensationalism. I wish a more responsible news outlet would reproduce the MO format - there's a gap in the market waiting to be filled - unless anyone can point me to such a place?

Obviously, I dislike the DM intensely.
But in regard to the publication of these types of pictures generally, then I agree they should be in the public domain.
I am sure there would be far fewer carnivores were more people exposed to video footage from abattoirs and factory farms.

I completely disagree with you there MoreCrack.

I hate the DM although I still occasionally read it as I might a trashy magazine in a doctors waiting room.

I've just had a look and I'm unsure why you're outraged about that particular headline?

Sure it's vile but there are animals all over the world and even here in the UK being kept and killed in horrific conditions.

"Sure it's vile but there are animals all over the world and even here in the UK being kept and killed in horrific conditions."

But of course. You're saying that like it's something I don't know.

I don't see the purpose of printing the story at all, to be honest. This isn't Essex, it's Vietnam. We all
Know there are countries in the world where animals are treated appallingly. What are they achieving by showing us how bad this can be? It's just there for sensationalism, lacktivism and hand wringing.

I agree, it happens all the time on it, even with regards to human sufferring. They say graphic content but have a picture beside it that you can't help to see .

You disagree that graphic pictures and videos of our treatment of animals should be in the public domain?
Because I think that's a large part of the problem and why we are still barbaric and cruel in our treatment of animals...because people choose to remain ignorant.