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Original poster

to ask why do mn's dislike the daily mail so much ?

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mrsfuzzy · 05/01/2015 22:33

i'm itching to know why many mn's slag off the daily mail, what is their choice of paper to read, and why, just curious, considering some of the others on sale.

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LeftyLoony · 05/01/2015 22:48

Hmmph. Um drudge I had to stop with the guardian too as I found it a bit too left wing... oops.

ilovesooty · 05/01/2015 22:51

I think it's been covered adequately above. I rarely buy papers but read the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph online.

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mrsfuzzy · 05/01/2015 22:51

jewels234, hardly a wind up thread, just a straight forward question but i notice that no one moans about the crap red tops which a also full of shite was page 3 not regarding as demeaning to women?

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BarbarianMum · 05/01/2015 22:52

Guardian Weekly is pretty good actually. Lots of global coverage.

PhaedraIsMyName · 05/01/2015 22:52

I can understand why it is disliked. I don't understand why there are so many posts linking to it if apparently no one likes or reads it.

I read the paper versions of The Guardian and The Telegraph.

Shonasnowqueen · 05/01/2015 22:53

full of right wing bllx

drudgetrudy · 05/01/2015 22:53

I just found some of the Guardian articles e.g. in "Society Guardian" like undergraduate essays. Still- a big improvement on the DMGrin

Surreyblah · 05/01/2015 22:53

They printed a front page family picture of the children killed in the fire set my mick phillpott with the huge headline saying something like "vile product of welfare britain" .

I and lots of others complained to the Press Complaints Commission about it: their response was shit.

Fabulassie · 05/01/2015 22:55

I find it entertaining sometimes. I like their celebrity gossip and some of their "Femail" features. I can see through their agenda and it's not like they actually succeed in turning me into some right-wing ninny. I can understand why people choose not to read it but I do get bored with people saying "I WILL NOT CLICK ON THAT LINK!!!!"

Then fucking don't. Whatever.

Quiero · 05/01/2015 22:58

"notice that no one moans about the crap red tops which a also full of shite was page 3 not regarding as demeaning to women?"

I think if you do a search you'll find we may have covered the is page 3 demeaning to women question quite thoroughly.

FATEdestiny · 05/01/2015 22:58

yy Fabulassie

LeftyLoony · 05/01/2015 22:58

Red tops = toilet paper.
The Indy can be reasonable but of late the online edition appears obsessed with celebrity. Yawn.

Actually one thing that shocked me was when the Daily Mail printed some Sonia Poulton stuff. Very out of character.

I really despised that opinion piece written about Stephen Gateley by Jan Moir too.

Babyroobs · 05/01/2015 22:58

They sensationalised my mum's death and the article was factually incorrect. We were warned at the inquest that the press could be there, but were totally unprepared for it being on the DM's webpage. When I rang them and complained they did change the facts to make them correct!

drudgetrudy · 05/01/2015 22:59

I reserve a special contempt for their "Femail" pages!
In case you wonder how I'm so familiar with it I find myself reading it to my 95 year-old Mum in her nursing home. Over the last 20 years it has been a very bad influence on her!

LeftyLoony · 05/01/2015 23:00

Oh no I'm really sorry you were so personally affected, Babyroobs.

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mrsfuzzy · 05/01/2015 23:00

phaedra you get my point exactly, many women read this paper, and plenty more read the crap papers, i don't read the papers as i think they are a waste of money and paper, but each to their own. but i'm intrigued to see how many people responding are in effect 'recycling other peoples words and comments in almost the same order, it seems some can't think for themselves and make an opinion, but in spite of that we know you are all a great bunch in times of need.

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IdontusuallyNC · 05/01/2015 23:01

Because nobody with sense wants anybody else to know or think or suspect they fit into the rags target group.

Babyroobs · 05/01/2015 23:02

Thanks LeftLoony - I actually felt seeing it in the press was almost worse than the bereavement itself.

Worksallhours · 05/01/2015 23:02

Ummm ... I have to say that if there is ever a serious news event, the Mail will always have the most and best images. Their picture desk budget must be enormous. Again, I was once caught up in an unusual news story and the Mail was the only newspaper that called to clarify facts and ask for comments -- all the other papers just nicked what the Mail had written.

However, these days, I find the Mail pretty shocking in terms of tone and story agenda. It has been gradually worsening over the years, and it has become pretty much a British version of the old National Enquirer. It is relentlessly obsessed with presenting a salacious, miserable, depraved version of reality where women are either nascent whores or tragic fuck-ups and men are philanderers, perverts or murderers.

drudgetrudy · 05/01/2015 23:04

mrsfuzzy
I think its because we all happen to hate it for similar reasons-and we knew that before we saw this thread

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mrsfuzzy · 05/01/2015 23:06

babyroobs that is so awful for you and your family, it's true the press seem to have no respect for peoples feelings and their need for privacy at these personal times.

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RandomNPC · 05/01/2015 23:08

We can't think for ourselves and form our own opinions? That was a nasty dig, OP!

footallsock · 05/01/2015 23:08

All the above. Prints lies that the uneducated believe.

Gruntfuttock · 05/01/2015 23:12

One thing that I can say in favour of the Daily Mail is that they went all out to get the murderers of Stephen Lawrence convicted.

RandomNPC · 05/01/2015 23:12

It's a paper for thickos, written by bastards.