AIBU to seriously wonder who reads The Daily Mail and The Sun?

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Both papers today have done themselves proud with their anti-Labour rhetoric and lies/misinformation.

So it does beg the question, who reads this rubbish and believes it? Anybody with half a brain cell and google can find facts out for themselves.

Am I being naive and people just don't want the truth, they want a version of facts that they believe is true?

Apart from anything else, it's just absolutely rubbish journalism.

I agree

sadly, half the country seem to read this drivel and believe it all

its the older people being interviewed on tv saying they'll vote for TM as she's a strong woman and she'll get us a good deal in Brexit, like shes the headteacher and the rest of the EU leaders will bow down to her

I just so dont get it, she's damaging the NHS beyond repair and these older people are the very ones who use it the most.

I will never read the Sun because of Hillsborough. I remember the headlines from when I was child and it's still a vile paper.

Well I'd say a vast majority of mn read The Daily Mail online. They may moan and say how shit it is but when people are posting articles, I'd say majority of the time it's from the DM.

I dont think people dont want the truth, I think people are too busy/lazy/dim to really go rooting for it and there's so much out there they dont know where to start. Most people think buying a paper in the morning then watching 15 minutes of the news at 6pm is enough politics for them, so the lies they read in that short time coming from the right wing media is what shapes their views.

My grandparents read DM and my partner TS. I skim-read them if they are laying around. Personally, I prefer the free newspapers...

so the lies they read in that short time coming from the right wing media is what shapes their views.
And from the left wing media? No-one who reads The Guardian gets influenced by that? Or who reads the bollocks spouted on Mumsnet and lacks the brain cells to think for themselves?

They appeal to peoples emotions.

They are stupid. It's really that simple. Unfortunately you can't argue with stupid.

My parents, unfortunately, get The Mail.
Both of them Tories, use the words "rag heads" and love Katie Hopkins.

Grubby lower class people who probably don't even live near a waitrose or a good school.

Yuck - probably best to ignore them if you can, but if you are stuck with them try to explain what sort of newspapers they should read.

So the Mirror and Guardian are completely truthful?

Let's not pretend they aren't all a bit detached from the truth.

Older people I look after read the Daily Mail. Very traditional, middle-class types.

Although there was a kerfuffle last night over the price. It's 65p now, but used to be a tuppence ha'penny. Price rise has been deemed daylight robbery.

So if you're reading this, DM, sort your prices out.

Well you presumably if you know the content. I don't because I don't read any papers.

why have you picked just those papers? The mirror and the guardian are just as crap and biased.

Loads of mumsnetters read the mail on line because so many links are from there.

Stop reading the crap op and maybe inform yourself.

Apparently, the Daily Mail has 29million readers (print and online) every month, and is the most read newspaper in the U.K. So you're saying every single one of these people has just half a brain cell?

Whatever happened to allowing people to have an opposing view without resorting to insults? If you don't like it, don't read it, it's that simple. They're not breaking any laws.

X post you piglet

The irony of a thread asking who reads these papers as the content is crap.

Totally anecdotal - but apparently working at the Sun is a fairly prized job. The paper aims to be accessible around a reading age of 7 (yes, 7) and it is quite a journalistic skill to get headlines and prose into that low reading age format.

There's misinformation and bias in most newspapers you need to get your info from a range of sources and of course your own experiences. They aren't insignificant.

mets

Grubby lower class people who probably don't even live near a waitrose or a good school

Dont be silly

Plus to be fair there are waitroses all over the shop though i was upset when it didnt open one in our village

Probably all the people who resent the sneering disdain of the self-appointed moral, political and intellectual superiors...

I could ask exactly the same question about the Guardian OP. Except in my view, it's even worse. At least the Mail and Sun are blatant in their propaganda. The Guardian hides it behind a veneer of objectivity and open-mindedness, which some people seem gullible enough to believe.

Lois you sound like a prejudiced bigot. Well done. Home goal I think.

Probably all the people who resent the sneering disdain of the self-appointed moral, political and intellectual superiors...

yep, the daily mail is the most popular

Is this thread just a subtle way of calling Tory voters thick, can I ask?

allo Thanks that's what I was going for. I hate the Sun and the DM. Maybe I should have said they are stupid rather than their readers but some of the journalism they peddle is horrendous. I can't understand why people buy them.