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

I don't ever read it, I don't click on links (or if I do, I click away immediately, too late, I know, but still), I would never link to it.

I hate everything it stands for, I hate it's manipulation of the issues of the day, the manufactured outrage, the tawdry crap - I mean, I'm going back a bit, I used to think "know your enemy" and give it a read once in a while but haven't done for years, so if it's changed that's on me. However, it hasn't.

One of my most satisfying moments in life was exposing the lies on the front page to an elderly reader, just using simple google able facts, and getting her to vote against Brexit.

Most particularly I hate readers of the Daily Mail, with a passion you guys will tell yourselves is my stupidity and weakness, but which is a touchstone in my life and the lives of so many people I know.

It's delicious.

I agree, most of the venom spouted about the DM is virtue signalling from left wing luvvies. I do look at in on occasion if someone links to something of interest but as I have zero interest in celebrities and their mostly vacuous lives, it's not a regular thing. I don't consider it to be the spawn of the Devil - just a product of our time and considering its popularity the hatred of it is not as widespread as some would have liked.

Ah yes, the go to 'Daily Heil, Daily Fail' and so on and the contempt in which the Mail is apparently held, despite being the 2nd most widely read online newspaper on the planet! But of course everyone reading it is a far right fanatic racist mysoginist (and any more 'ists' you care to throw at us).

Which is of course, complete bollocks and millions of ordinary people read the Mail - but we can't admit that, now can we?

I'm a follower of American crime - weird subject I know, but it began with the Casey Anthony case some years ago (and the live streaming of trials in the US) - which I got hooked on, and then their was the Jodi Arias trial and so on. Working from home, I can put these on in the background and it's fascinating to watch real life crime drama.

I have also since joined various Crime forums and I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Mail is best as reporting some of these cases. You can search for articles online and some American regional newspapers may report but the nationals largely ignore no matter how big the case - but the Mail invariably has a report - and they are pretty accurate too.

I do read the Mail online, and I don't give a shit what anyone else thinks so I must be an idiot/racist/right wing fanatic etc. I'm none of those of course, but that makes no difference to those who brand us all the same way.

I don't read it and I don't click on links to it. Every click on their website helps them sell ads to fund the service. I'm not contributing to that.

It would be fine if people accepted that it was akin to 'Take a Break' which it is.... its salacious gossip and opinion pieces contrived to evoke outrage etc... but the problem is that some people view it as a legitimate news source and it can actually end up doing a lot of damage.
Some of the 'reporting' in it is completely irresponsible.... and what makes me really angry about it is that half these journalists dont believe an iota of what they are writing they just do it for the cash and then move on to another newspaper.
There have truly been some disgusting and damaging headlines in the DM... the last one I can remember being really upsetting was the racist one about the nurses from abroad... I cant remember the actual headline maybe someone else can remember it? But it was just a bunch of made up shit designed to provoke racial tension...
I mean people actually read that and take it on board... and these journalists with degrees from Oxford or whatever just laugh all the way to the bank whilst they watch the world burn.... thats what gets me

I do actually enjoy the humour in a lot of the DMs reporting on less important issues.... love the constant sly inserting of houseprices and the adverts on how to buy a celebritys outfit in the middle of an article about their nervous breakdown/cancer scare... it does seem to intentionally spoof itself quite a lot

But its the fact that some people read it as their main news source and that the people who write for it must know that and they just turn a blind eye to the shit storm

I know my father in law pretends to read the guardian but his history always has the DM

It’s just another champagne socialist thing bash the DM but in private clicking away

Virtual signaling look low left and right on I am tbh I find the guardian very I trust worthy no mention of the German sex attacks

Calling the riots a few years ago protests they bash grammers when most of the guardian writers send their kids to grammers or privates it’s yawn really

I'm with Bibesia - 'know your enemy'. That said, though, it's completely unnecessary to buy or click on the DM these days because anything sufficiently inflammatory/gossipy is straight on Twitter/mn anyway.

Most particularly I hate readers of the Daily Mail, with a passion you guys will tell yourselves is my stupidity and weakness, but which is a touchstone in my life and the lives of so many people I know.
You hate people that you've never met & know nothing about just because they read a newspaper / website, even though they're very possibly ridiculing it, disbelieving the vast majority of its content and going at it's approach? I'm not sure that's anything to be proud of to be honest. It sounds as intolerant (if not more so) as many of the people who post venom in its comments.

Of course the guardian reported the German sex attacks. 'Not a mention' - rubbish There was legitimate criticism of their slowness in publishing that article.

it's not really a surprise posters are using goady right-wing terminology like calling anti-racism "virtue signalling".
Anti-racism isn't virtue signalling. You've got the wrong end of the stick. Implying that everyone who reads the DM is racist is virtue signalling

That's right. I am incredibly intolerant of Daily Mail readers - and believe me, you can tell in the first seconds of talking about the subject if they're reading it for lols or true believers. Id go easy on the first group and walk away from the second.
I once moved at dinner because the guy I was sitting next to has recently started writing a column in the DM. He was only doing it for the cash in addition to his extremely lucrative job. What an areshole.

Gosh, such tolerant views of DM haters being expressed in this thread. With your fair minded approach and lack of insults and sweeping generalisations, you are really showing us all a better way to be.
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It would be fine if people accepted that it was akin to 'Take a Break' which it is.... its salacious gossip and opinion pieces contrived to evoke outrage etc... but the problem is that some people view it as a legitimate news source and it can actually end up doing a lot of damage.

Could easily be talking about the guardian throwing women under the bass to virtual signall awful rag

'I assume it's by the Guardian-reading, sandle-eating, lentil-weaving morons who think they're incredibly open minded but call anyone who doesn't agree with them a fascist.'

Do make sure you use this phrase when you apply for a job at the Daily Mail. You've absolutely nailed the corporate philosophy there. Although you might want to check the spelling of sandle/sandal. Even the Mail has standards you know!