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

[chomalungma]

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

I get quite enough information about what fascist idiots think from Twitter without descending to The Fail.

Yeah it's Bullshit - the pictures of police 'pleading' with people on Brighton beach to 'go home' is nonsense -we're allowed to go to the beach as long as the 2m rules is observed, which it is being. I'm there every day running. They're reminding people who are sitting down that they're supposed to be exercising not chilling...
they also have a photo of a couple 'laughing' at a policeman - even from the angle they've taken the picture at you can see the cop is clearly joking with them.
They're absolutely desperate to find people breaking the new rules, but Brighton is like a ghost town, and people exercising are doing it really far apart.

I read the DM online for the same reason I look at Fox news or the Telegraph or Breitbart, so that I don't fall into my bubble of BBC, Guardian, and NY Times news. It's good to get other POV plus, regardless of how backwards you thing the Daily Fail is it has a huge readership and is very influential.

I too think it is good to read widely to get an understanding of what people are thinking. This is why even though I think it is disastrous, I was not at all surprised by the Brexit vote.

The only time buying the DM is essential is when you can't get toilet paper.

The DM is not even any good for a**e wiping. A scurrilous rag at best of times.

If we didn't read The Daily Mail, how would we otherwise be informed that young females are the scourge of society and the root cause of nearly all societal problems.

If we didn't read The Daily Mail, we might be inclined to think otherwise based on our own day to day experiences.

The Daily Mail will miss the Aintree Grand National though.

Young, female and Scouse - the three things The Daily Mail hates the most.

With some threads, the only difference between the DM and MN has been the lack of photography on MN.

As I said, don't froth at each other: watch the government instead. You know what Boris' secret plan is right now? To bring back the stocks outside supermarkets, to provide a fruitful (lovely pun!) outlet for all your frustration, and useful disposal of all the rotten fruit and veg which everybody panic-bought, and didn't eat in time. Just make sure you keep two metres away while you do it.

The level of scaremongering is shocking. Its all the pictures of dead bodies. I can’t help feeling that these clips from hospitals should be banned to protect people’s privacy. Its just whipping up a frenzy.

It is amazing how the "majority" of people loathe the Daily Smell, yet it still has one of the largest circulations in the country.

It appeals to the lowest common denominator in human nature, and unfortunately we all have some of that.

It is an absolutely foul rag of a tabloid, I find it hard to put in words how much I loathe it.

Guess now that Harry & Megs have gone relatively quiet the "Smell" has grown tired of giving them a good kicking, and is on the prowl for fresh victims.

They want to cause division and make their readers blame others for their own deaths to take the heat off any government failures.

Some people are being stupid but the vast majority are complying. I made the mistake of going on the site last week to see how they were reporting on it and they were blaming Londoners for spreading the disease even though most of those who’ve died were infected before social distancing and lockdown was in place. It can take about a month from infection to death. Their readers were claiming Londoners had died because they were dirtier than people in other parts of the country! Silence when Boris and Charles got it though.

I also think some of the photos are suspect. How do we know all of their photos are even recent? A picture from a beach could be one or two years old.

Anyway what does anyone expect from a treacherous rag which sided with the blackshirts in the 1930s?

"If we didn't read The Daily Mail, how would we otherwise be informed that young females are the scourge of society and the root cause of nearly all societal problems."

Yes, they've always had an agenda of pushing the 1950s housewife ideal for women, haven't they?

Guess now that Harry & Megs have gone relatively quiet the "Smell" has grown tired of giving them a good kicking, and is on the prowl for fresh victims.

How good that their latest victim is the Johnson government with its inability to cope with the current crisis.

@chomalungma

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

Like some of the threads on here to be honest,

It is useful to get out of your bubble - the MN bubble is as bad. Vilifying the DM is no better than the DM vilifying people. MN is (sometimes) as bad - hatred for anyone who doesn't follow the Groupthink.

Why shouldn’t they call out the idiots endangering themselves and everyone else during the pandemic? Like it or not, the Mail has a degree of social influence in this country, and using it to get people to stay at home as much as possible will have a better effect on people’s lives than all those endlessly moaning about it!

I wasn't in the least surprised by the Brexit vote either

@CendrillonSings That assumes the people they are photographing:

a) give a toss
b) read the paper

PhilCornwall1

No, neither of those things is relevant. What’s relevant is the effect on millions of Mail readers who think “God, I’d love to go out and do X, but I don’t want to be like those selfish twats I just read about”.

That’s the valuable social effect.

Why shouldn’t they call out the idiots endangering themselves and everyone else during the pandemic

Is someone outside with a neighbour dancing endangering themselves?

Is the NHS round of applause endangering others?

Both those things are either good or bad.

Two weeks ago they ran a feature on the brave elderly folk strolling around at the seaside without a care in the world. Lots of Blitz spirit, it’s just a bloody cold, snowflake hysteria, in my day we walked 20 miles to school shite. The comments egged them on. Now you’re vilified for taking a bike ride which will LITERALLY kill an old person.

It is amazing how the "majority" of people loathe the Daily Smell, yet it still has one of the largest circulations in the country.

Yes and has always been the most popular paper on Mumsnet.

Yet so many Daily Mail readers get offended when you call them what they are....Daily Mail readers

I don't know why they don't just own it instead of pretending to fund it for some greater good.

@CendrillonSings You are talking about the average Daily Mail reader here. It isn't going to "shame" anyone, they are going to do their own thing.

If I need to nip out for something, to be honest the last thing I am thinking about is what someone will think of me.

You are talking about the average Daily Mail reader here. It isn't going to "shame" anyone, they are going to do their own thing.

By all means show me the research proving that peer pressure - including that exerted by one’s favourite media source - has no social effect. You won’t find it.

If I need to nip out for something, to be honest the last thing I am thinking about is what someone will think of me.

Let me guess - you read the Independent?

I want to know how the hell they justify sending their photographer out. Going out to take photographs of people in order to print self-righteous bollocks about them hardly constitutes an essential journey.