Why do people pretend, yes pretend, to hate the Daily Mail?

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Just that really. I've seen tons threads where MNetters quote from it, or paraphrase a story from it, sometimes they're even kind enough to provide clickable links, whilst calling it the 'Daily Fail'

If they hate it so much why are they reading it and quoting from it? There's loads of other papers to choose from

Instead of pretending to scoff and look down on it why can't they just admit they like it? Lurve it even

Because their pretentious dickwads? ?

Oh DFOD

I always wonder that as well OP, way way more people on here read it than they would care to admit.

Maybe as It is a complete rag and people don’t like being associated with it?

I always have a little peruse of it keep up with the Kardashians & co but I've never slagged it off so I guess this thread doesn't apply to me...

It's not really trendy to admit you might be a bit right of the centre and also enjoy the dumbing down the Daily Mail offers. I fully admit I love a bit of the 'side bar of shame'

I often wonder this can't be that bad. They're giving it page views.

I don't think anyone pretends to hate it. They link to it sometimes because that's where a story is reported - or because they want to discuss the way a story is being reported, indeed - and they hate it because it's a hate-filled racist xenophobic misogynistic rag written to pander to and stir up the very worst in people.

HTH.

Sorry OP
Don’t like it. I don’t like lots of things but I still look at them.

you don't have to read the paper or on-line to be aware of a particularly unpleasant article, there are others that do who will flag them up.

I don’t I read the daily mail purely for the comments they can be hilarous, stuff the articles the comment section is the real news

I don't read it, don't click on mail links and don't look at the sidebar of shame. Obviously in shops I sometimes see the front page and I wonder why others can't see the total sick vileness that the Mail pumps out. If a shop dumped a load of sewage in its newspaper display stands it would have more value and truth than that propaganda rag. I also know two people who used to work for the Mail and who are still grateful to have got out after fifteen years.

So no I don't lurve it. But there are people with different opinions on MN. Alert the authorities.

The Daily Fail is a hate filled paper that deliberately seeks to stir things up and to get click baits. There are so many groups that it hates but it doesn't care about them.

It's a well laid out website - and it does cover some stories well and has a range of stories that aren't covered elsewhere.

It's also incredibly obsessed with female appearance and judging women.

It's a case of "Know your enemy", isn't it?

The DM is now the highest read English speaking newspaper world wide.

So that means, the entire world is wrong, and just this teeny weeny forum is right.

What's wrong with confronting idiotic 'news' - don't take things at face value and be confident enough to speak up when things are wrong or morally wrong!

Talking of which, bad use of 'their' @NewYearNewMe18

Hint: it's they're ...

PS - the paper version and the on line version are two different (but yes, sister) companies which cross site market some stories. Very little of the online version, now primarily aimed at the US market, is in the paper version

AND house prices who can forget they manage to include the price of people’s homes
It’s paid by kardashians to run stories on their genetically blessed figures- the dms words btw obv paid to type that on their website by the fatarses themselves

flumpybear

Wankers Pedants Corner is over there >>>>>>>>>>>>>

I read the daily mail but a lot of the articles are cut and paste jobs from the Internet. These I don't like.

The DM is now the highest read English speaking newspaper world wide.

the paper version and the on line version are two different (but yes, sister) companies which cross site market some stories

Same values of hate though.

I like it because it's value for money, there's loads to read compared with the other red tops, and they have lots of articles specifically for women eg Femail on a Thursday. Not keen on some of the stuff written about women, but impressed with their campaigns re plastic bags. I'm not a particularly political person so anything I don't agree with goes over my head.

Averyimportantperson they cross sell all the time, local papers, Bored Panda, Sifter, God Knows, there are a couple that pop up on my news feed with the same story from different sources over the course of a week then end up in the DM. It's lazy journalism. That said, my local paper has shut most of its physical offices, journos work from home and as a result haunt local community forums to pick up gossip. If they get wind of a good old accident etc they pay £100 for the photos rather than send a photographer out.

After their headline said that the couple who set fire to their home in which some of their children died were ‘the real face of benefits Britain ‘ - as someone who collects Tax Credits due to low pay I find it offensive that according to them I and anyone who is in the position of seeking government help have the mentality of a murderer

I read it because I like a spread of views (I also read The Times, Telegraph and Financial Times at various times through the week),Daily Mail is good on a Wednesday as they give the financial info for people like me with a little bit of spare money - not tons.

if you always read news from a single viewpoint you can very easily become as narrow minded as the Daily Mail editors.