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The Daily Mail are loving photographing and shaming people - they are in their element

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chomalungma · 01/04/2020 09:06

Judging people
Calling them idiiots
Doing lots of photographs of people breaking the rules

Their newest one is calling a street of people idiots because they stand at their doorstep and do a dance. Apparently they are inches apart - which is apparent from the photos they aren't

Showing pictures of people doing 'illegal exercise'
People buying things from shops they don't need - in the DMs view

I know it's what to expect from the Daily Mail

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Pumpkinpie1 · 01/04/2020 09:24

I never buy or read the DM or women’s magazines . The language & treatment of people is about abuse & bullying . Not objectivity Why pay for that ?

user1493413286 · 01/04/2020 09:26

Yep just like how they like taking photos of drunk people at Christmas yet some of the photographers of those drunken photos admit that they had to really search for those people or take very biased photos to make it look worse than it is

MashedPotatoBrainz · 01/04/2020 09:29

They had a headline the other day about how people were flouting the rules and flocking to the seeside but their photos only had 1 or 2 people in them. Hardly a flock.

Then they had a load of photos showing how panic buyers were now throwing away loads of wasted food but the pictures were all of the same bin but from different angles. Snealy bastards.

Ponoka7 · 01/04/2020 09:29

They are trying to turn so many deaths back on to the public, when the government acted too late and didn't equip themselves as best as they could.

I also think they are trying to get us to a false sense of security. As though the virus won't still be able to kill us once we all go out again.

I wouldn't expect anything else from them.

MashedPotatoBrainz · 01/04/2020 09:30

*sneaky

Ponoka7 · 01/04/2020 09:31

Mind you they'll be short on shaming people. They normally get at least three days out of our Aintree grand national, if not longer.

PineappleDanish · 01/04/2020 09:32

This newspaper has been incredibly irresponsible throughout the entire coronavirus crisis. A lot of what they print is total scaremongering.

Applejaxx · 01/04/2020 09:35

Of course they are acting like Nazis. This is the ‘news’ paper that supported them in the 1930’s.

BiggerBoat1 · 01/04/2020 09:38

Why would you be surprised?

They are always about scaremongering, bullying, being divisive.

Why would they be any different now?

Nasty, nasty paper.

Alsohuman · 01/04/2020 09:38

Why look at or read that rag?

bluewafflewithmayo · 01/04/2020 09:39

They're the propaganda arm of the coming fascist regime.

But don't worry - it's all to keep us safe.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 01/04/2020 09:42

Well, newspapers are fairly non essential, so the dm should be “naming and shaming”Every one of their physical buyers.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 01/04/2020 09:43

Going out to buy the DM from the shops is an unnecessary trip, but then it always has been.

tinkerbellla · 01/04/2020 09:45

And how can they shame people then send paparazzi out to photograph celebrities/buy pap pictures. Surely that isn't essential at the best of times Shock

WorraLiberty · 01/04/2020 09:51

There was another thread from a Daily Mail reader yesterday, also complaining about the newspaper they choose to read.

It's not compulsory you know!

EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 01/04/2020 09:53

People buying things from shops they don't need

what - like the daily mail?

RufustheLanglovingreindeer · 01/04/2020 09:53

Oh that pissed me off as well chomalunga

Those families look 2 metres away to me (though obviously camera angles can deceive)

Cattenberg · 01/04/2020 09:54

The Daily Mail are utterly vile. They kept posting photos of ISIS atrocities for clickbait, despite being told that this was exactly the publicity that ISIS wanted.

They will also exploit any tragedy for their own political ends. Most people wouldn’t stoop so low as to use child murders for political gain, but the DM have no shame.

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chomalungma · 01/04/2020 09:54

It's not compulsory you know

It isn't.

It is also useful not to live in a bubble and to see what other people with different views are seeing - and then to discuss that.

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chomalungma · 01/04/2020 09:55

And no doubt the DM will have wonderful pictures of people on the streets applauding the NHS.

Same difference

Can you see the DM for being called a Covidiot?

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Silvercatowner · 01/04/2020 09:55

If it wasn't newsprint, the DM would have been the solution to the loo paper crisis. I don't understand why anyone buys it. It's repugnant.

BigChocFrenzy · 01/04/2020 09:57

Makes it easy afterwards to blame the people for dying

WorraLiberty · 01/04/2020 09:58

It is also useful not to live in a bubble and to see what other people with different views are seeing - and then to discuss that.

I believe that's the latest Mumsnet 'reason' for reading the DM, yes Grin

It used to be "I stumbled across it at the Hairdressers", or "My PILs had a copy on their living room table".

Seriously though, tabloids tend to be a pile of shite and that one is top of the dung heap.

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chomalungma · 01/04/2020 10:02

I believe that's the latest Mumsnet 'reason' for reading the DM, yes

It's not an excuse.

It is useful to get different perspectives on anything. Know what other people think.

Because if you don't, then you can be surprised by the outcome.

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WorraLiberty · 01/04/2020 10:05

You are funding a newspaper your claim to hate.

What on earth is the point of that?

If all the Daily Mail readers stopped reading it, they'd stop producing it. It's not difficult to read something else if you don't like it.