Daily Mail

[whyamiawake]

Many of the posts I read on here there's always one smug annoying git pops up saying "this has got the Daily Mail written all over it".

Enough already.

But I don't get the problem?
If you post on s public forum, what you say is in the public domain.
All a bit overdramatic for me I'm afraid.

Smug? Really? Virtue-signalling?

Maybe a bit doom-saying, depending on the context.

Yes who pays for it now?

I hate it AND I sometimes have a shifty at the website. What should I be signalling?

There have been hundreds of threads moaning about the DM lifting threads. At least one a week for months. It could even have it's own topic at this rate.

People want MN to be a safe space but it isn't and never has been.

Plus threads have been talked about on This Morning/The Wright Stuff/Loose Women. It's not just the Daily Mail.

It's all good for the clicks and the advertisers, so no idea why MNHQ would mind.

Why do you look at the website if you hate it?
I am genuinely interested. I don't actively seek out anything I hate.

DM online is the only place you can find out important matters like what Holly Willoughby is wearing on the beach this week or who Ellie Goulding is dating.

Not all the references to the Daily Mail are warning posts to alert to their theft of threads.

Some are posters trying to fit in with what they see as the prevailing views on Mumsnet as they know they'll get the sneery "Ugh, you read the Daily Mail" responses if they don't declaim it first and some are just straightforward virtue signalling or snobbery.

Exactly anything anyone posts is in the public domain no matter where.. and threads ARE picked up by lots of different sites/ papers etc... bemused as to why people are so shocked.

The importance of keeping up with what the political extremes of mass media were saying feeding to the masses was drummed into us by a wonderful teacher in sixth form.

She was very wise on lots of points.

Ivor I agree it is snobbery. And superiority. Ugh. Bore off.

Of course many Mumsnetters buy it.

It's hands-down the most popular/most read newspaper on Mumsnet and always has been.

Well it has in the 6yrs I've been here anyway.

What does "Bore off" mean?

Actually I say 'buy' it but most fund it by reading it online

Then they'll give it lots more funding by linking to it here.

'Bore off' means, 'you're boring so fuck off'.

'Bore off' means, 'you're boring so fuck off'.

So why not just say that?

Superior to what?

When I started on mumsnet 8 years ago it was on a very specific medical thread about a specific condition. I almost live commented on my surgery and recovery. The thread had been running or years on various guises. There was very little information in the public about the condition. I got lost of PMs, questions and thanks- for years and years!

Anyone who read it and knew me well may have made the link at the time but after probably not.

As a result of the DM I would never post something like that again which is a real shame.

My dislike of the DM is deep and abiding.
This is the paper that supported Hitler.
It's attitude towards women is appalling.
The way is discusses asylum seekers/ benefit claimants sickens me.
The overt bias and just plain nastiness of some of the comment threads shock me.
I read papers I disagree with politically, I like the challenge, but the DM is pure hate filled bile.
It pretends to be 'better' than The Sun when in fact it is worse. I happily buy The Mirror sometimes

How do I know this? I work with teenagers and we look at newspapers to talk about bias and prejudice, the DM is always the worst.

Am I virtue signalling? I don't know, you asked why people dislike it those are some of the reasons I dislike it. I could go on......

Superior to the uneducated plebs who read/view/buy the Daily Mail of course. It is now necessary to signal that you don't, even though no-one really cares much anyway!
It's the same as those threads around a big Royal occasion, when the people who 'don't care' about the Royals seem to feel the need to expand a lot of energy confirming how much they 'don't care' and are 'not interested'.
Sometimes the only people who comment are the ones who purport to have no interest!

Bit I don't recall asking for people's reasons why they dislike it. Write what you want.

Cathf yes yes yessss. And yes.

I wasn't referring to you OP. I would have addressed you directly. Some pp have made "why do people dislike it" type comments.

I was using 'you' as a rhetorical device. I'm a ponce I can't help it.

I can't see where anyone else asked either.

Do you know what I don't care.

I was self promoting and virtue signalling I was looking down on DM readers (I do actually) I was being superior and very, very boring.

Or I was just adding to the thread.

Off to read my copy of The Mirror so you DM snobs can look down on me for being uneducated.

I forgot smug. I was being smug smuggity smug smug.