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.

Daily Mail? Most of Mumsnet. Never been better informed about its content than after an hour on AIBU. Amazing how nobody admits to reading it, yet there are daily threads on everything they print.

I forgot this

My Mam. She's 67 and its the only paper she's ever bought.

I don't read any of them, when I catch headlines in the papers on the tables at work,I always roll my eyes, they're all liars.

Right! just an opportunity to sneer at those with different view to you. Could't you think of a more intellectual thread title?

mets

That was a joke right?

Does the editor of the Guardian and the Mirror have private meetings with Theresa May? Hmmm, probably not. May met with Dacre and Murdoch on becoming PM. And surprise surprise scrapped Leveson 2.

The Headlines on those disgusting papers today make grim reading. I hope Corbyn considers suing.

I know far too many intelligent people who read and believe the outright lies the DM publishes. I don't think I know anyone who reads The Sun (or admits to it). As someone said, it's written for people with a reading age of a small child.

Most of the people rubbishing the sun and the mail are happy to read and share absolute bollocks from online trash like the Canary. At least the newspapers pay their staff.

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

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But the op obviously reads them she knows the content that's the hilarious thing

I read the Daily Mail online. Along with the Independent and Guardian and occasionally BBC.

The Daily Mail website is clever designed and easy to read and navigate.

I like to read the same news story from a variety of angles. I am totally able to filter out bias and bigotry.

I'm also a big believer in know your enemy. Its bollocks right wing bile is very much the opinion of a great many in this country.

I took it mets was being sarcastic.

The Daily Mail is the most widely-read, and the most profitable, paper in the country. It has a huge number of female readers.

It's very cleverly targeted at the middle market. It's a tabloid, but it sells to people who would never be seen dead with a red-top but want an easier read than the Telegraph.

Actually I was just reading in the DM how John McDonnell nearly bankrupted GLC and actually had to be sacked by Ken Livingston - and this is the man Labour want as chancellor - God help us.

I think people who read the daily mail are stupid hence they can't read broad sheets.

My inlaws say rag heads too and FIL commented during gardeners world that he didn't want a foreigner (the polish head gardener on the Thames) talking to him about gardening as he was British.

I'll punch the dick eventually

Read all the dailies, the news is pretty much the same just a different format, more pictures on the red tops. How can you believe anything more if you google it!

the news is pretty much the same just a different format

yes, in the Mail it's in a different TRUTH format

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

The Guardian really is not though. You might not agree with it but you can't put it on the same level as the DM. Look at the language used. Look at how often the DM has to retract bogus news stories aka complete fiction. Read the DM if you must but don't pretend it's real journalism.

who reads this rubbish Most of my family
who reads this rubbish and believes it? It seems most the people in my local facebook groups

My 86 year old grandmother reads the Daily Mail and believes it all, despite me trying to convince her it's biased, like the majority of media, of whatever flavour. She is very naive and insists it can't be wrong else they wouldn't be allowed to print it - so when I have told her the truth behind some of the stories about where I work, for example, she is gobsmacked but I get the sense that she either thinks I must have the wrong end of the stick because if it's in the paper it must be true, or just thinks I'm exaggerating. If she is representative of a lot of the readership it's no wonder it sells so well.

i tend to do a trawl on line for all the papers ( the ones that let me that is a few you cant read more than few lines and have to subscribe)
I saw some Metro newspapers in the hospital the other day - i was surprised that the front page seemed right wing but i didnt read any more inside so hard to know.
I love the fact that the Sun is banned in liverpool i believe ( a lot of newsagents wont stock it) and havent done for years. I think this is still the case. My neighbours read the Mail ( i saw him with a copy in his hand the other day) my inlaws are sun readers and my dad is a dye in the wool Mirror reader and has been for decades/ votes labour etc. I know a mixed bag of people! Not to say that any of the press is completely without an agenda ( maybe the Independant?) but there are more right wing papers than left wing.

Your first sentence sums it up, I would guess a large portion of their readership are anti-labour/pro conservative and want to read something that agrees with their views.

Very few will read a newspaper because they happened to pick it up or because they want a broad view, most will buy the paper that comes closest to validating their opinions.

I read The Sun and the Mail

I haven't grown horns yet...

All the thick people. Not selective, intellectual people like you OP.
HTH Sneer sneer sneer!

I love the fact that the Sun is banned in liverpool i believe ( a lot of newsagents wont stock it) and havent done for years. I think this is still the case.

It isn't banned but it has been widely boycotted since Kelvin McKenzie's hateful coverage of Hillsborough. If you want to buy the Sun on Merseyside you have to go to a supermarket or WHSmith because many independent newsagents won't stock it.