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

[mrsfuzzy]

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.

I don't think I could call reading the comments enjoyable as such... But it's like smoking or something - im ashamed of the habit but crave to know what the responses are to the biased stories it presents. Funnily enough the majority of comments usually disagree with DM, or are correcting its grammar.

I think it's quite scary because it promotes hatred. Dp's parents are the only people I know who read it regularly and they are also the most bigoted people I've ever met. Judging by the comments I read on the online articles I don't think they are unique amongst readers.

Fanjo That's a pretty big leap of presumption tbh.

And when the DM story I am personally aware of came to light, the biggest amount of bile came from here on MN.

If you were targeted you wouldn't enjoy reading them. End of.

It wasn't me personally targeted, it was a friend. She is now dead. But, as I said, the DM comments, the DM report, etc, were literally nothing compared to the bile spilled on MN.

People say stupid things when they don't know what they're talking about. Be they DM readers, Guardian readers, Times readers or MNers.

It isn't a newspaper really. It is a sensationalist rag. The news is almost incidental to it.

I have lived abroad for many many years but when a bout of homesickness arises I read the Daily Mail a few days in a row, sorts me out in no time. I also watch re-runs of Eastenders....

It's an organised trollfest, written and produced by trolls from Trolls R Us.

It's goadiness in print form.

I buy it Mon-Fri, take out the middle section (4 pages of puzzles) and the rest is for under the cat-litter tray. The puzzles are my brain work-out, and my dh says it gives him a bit of peace for an hour or so! Never read the actual paper.

Oh I just love that it tells you where to buy stuff so you can be more like the slebs. So handy.

OP:

1. goto Mail website
2. look at the right hand side of the page
3. scroll
4. scroll some more
5. scroll again.

Then report back on what 80% of the pictures are of.

Speaking as someone with SEO expertise, it's also a little unsettling how they promote certain words in their so-called stories ("teenage"/"teen" is one).

It's a sad indictment on the society that invented newspapers that we only have the Mail as anything close to a "news" paper in the tabloid grouping, as the Express, Mirror, Sun and Star aren't really up to the job.

I can't speak for everyone on MN but I hate it because it is a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, hate inducing, oh lets face it; generally intolerant of anyone but straight, white, middle-class English men, sensationalist waste of paper. The vast majority of it is vacuous opinion masquerading as factual reporting.

or this: It's an organised trollfest, written and produced by trolls from Trolls R Us. as written by fairnotfair

I'd like to add that I do NOT find it remotely frothy or harmless - it incites hatred and that is never, ever harmless.

There was a thread about a daily mail article a while ago. The op was outraged and everyone piled in,....dont worry - thats the mail for you etc...all on high horse.

The another poster managed to find the same story written with same slant in most other papers including the......Guardian

unless you are a white British heterosexual working man, at some point or other, the DM will lay all of society's ills at your door. Unlike the other tabloids, it likes to think it's a serious newspaper, but it isn't.

I read the Economist and the Guardian (online mainly).

I used to read the Guardian. I don't read any printed papers now, the Graun now costs a ridiculous amount of money for a daily paper! Judging by the quality of reporting, they all seem to be staffed by three interns regurgitating press releases.

The another poster managed to find the same story written with same slant in most other papers including the......Guardian

Obviously other papers post opinions I disagree with including 'The Guardian' which is one of my preferred newspapers. I prefer the reporting and opinion pieces in the broadsheets, 'The Guardian' and 'Independent' in particular but I don't agree with everything written in them and of course they may come out on the same side as 'The Daily Mail' sometimes. The key is in the sometimes whereas 'The Daily Mail' is filled with hatred, prejudice and sleaze on a daily basis.

because it peddles fear and mistrust on just about every level

Don't think you need to say "just about".

Godawful rag. If that's the values of middle England, thank God, I'm working class.

a white British heterosexual working man

No, it has a go at us too:
(i) we drink too much,
(ii) we are lazy,
(iii) we are football hooligans,
(iv) we go on strike,
(v) we cheat on our partners,
(vi) we desert our children,
(vii) we squander our cash, or
(viii) all of the above.

I think today's article by the Chedista just about sums it up for me.

Ill-informed, women-hating drivel.

Tobyjugg

Godawful rag. If that's the values of middle England, thank God, I'm working class.

That's their trick though, isn't it. It seems to be a middle class aspirational trope to read (and agree) with the Daily Mail

The Beatles poked fun in the 60s - nothing much has changed.

"It's the dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand
His son is working for the Daily Mail"

Paperback Writer - 1966

I'd forgotten that! Lurking

Back in the day when you could do this sort of thing, my boss always asked job applicants what paper they read. Any bloke who said the Mail automatically failed the interview.