To ditch the Daily Mail

[Morag72]

Realised that reading all the crap in DM was just depressing me. Finally ditched it. Will use Sky news for factual updates. Feel so much better already. A few years ago I ditched East Enders - similarly depressing.

Its a guilty pleasure

Yabu to have ever read it or the Express. Absolutely ditch.

@ThePostWhatIWrote

If I want a short, clear summary of a big news story I find the Sun the best tbh.

Lol!!!

@wonderstuff

Daily Mail has the most visited new website in the world, how depressing is that? I very rarely go to DM, they do get good pictures so sometimes I crumble, but generally I’d rather not support them, so much is so negative and unkind.

Good pictures of what?

Although I don't think their motives are honourable, I am pleasantly surprised that they highlight the issues with trans self ID, TRAs, etc. The more people who understand how trans rights can impact biological women's lives the better. I'm far less concerned where than info comes from. Other than that it's a shitty rag that I avoid.

I try and read something from most of the papers (when time permits, a hang over from a previous job) including the mail, a lot of it is trash but there's some good journos that write in it, Ian birrel being one. I wouldn't read the mail (or any one media source tbh) as your one news source, try and sprinkle a bit of a different newspaper or radio or TV news into your sky news.

They had a photo of Boris Johnson looking like one of his many children having a large tantrum the other day.
I don't read the celeb articles as I haven't any interest in them anyway!

Have never read it. Am always a bit when people post links from it here and say “I know it’s the DM but,” if they’re seeing links to it then clearly they read it, so why pretend otherwise?

However, I wouldn’t consider a credible alternative to be sky news. A load of sensationmongering they have on there. I had the app for a while,and I would get notifications with headlines which bear absolutely no resemblance to the actual story they were about.

I have to say I am delighted that Laura Kuensberg is stepping down as political journalist at the bbc. Can’t stand the woman and I don’t know anyone who can.

What took you so long?

It's not even real news op. It has crap writers that feed on being dramatic. Well done for ditching it!
If you want news at least read the truth!

It's pure entertainment. You don't need to believe all it says.

I just feel very sorry for many of the young journos who start their careers there, writing this stuff.

It has been responsible for a lot of successful campaigns I think and has won various awards. Every newspaper has its own agenda just like the BBC. You have to pick out the bits you want to believe

I also find they are the only paper consistently supporting women-only spaces

Yes. Does not redeem them for other terrible journalism but at least they have got this right. Possibly they are reading their audience and realise the huge groundswell out there for women's right to women-only spaces and indeed to the noun 'women'.

The reason the BBC and others are slower to report breaking news than, say, the DM is that they are actually verifying the facts and doing their own reporting before publishing.
As part of my job, I spend a lot of time reading news online. Weirdly, the British outlet that seems to combine speed and accuracy best when it comes to breaking news is The Independent.

@Morag72 I did exactly the same last week for the same reasons! I miss the celeb sidebar but couldn't stand the incessant miserable speculative covid headlines. I genuinely feel so much lighter for ditching the negativity. And it's freed up phone memory!

I admit that I read it online , I know it's a terrible rag and very manipulative, but reading other points of view is a good thing even if it makes me want to hit things.
We are a right wing country and they play on this , my neighbours often quote it as gospel I nod and smile.
I think more people agree with it than don't :(

Festivemelts - yes the recent Covid coverage has been unbearable.

I don't have any strong views on the DM but I do think it's a bit odd to be so affected by any news source that it was making you depressed and then having to ask the internet if it's OK to stop reading it.

Why after the first time it make you depressed did you read it again? Is there a back story ?

@NashvilleQueen

It's a terrible newspaper in every respect and yet weirdly one of the few to get the whole GC thing. Maybe that's more because they like their women looking traditionally fuckable than they are feminists but at least they do call out the bullshit.

I find it impossible to read any of them at the moment. No to the Murdoch press. No to the Torygraph and DM. The Guardian is anti-women. Only Private Eye is worth the money.

I am inclined to agree. I read the New York Times now (online) and I absolutely love it.

We call Sky News "Sky terror" in our house. Always a massive "if it bleeds it leads" spin

@RancidOldHag

I'm surprised anyone ever reads it other than on the days when there is the Money Mail - as that section is good

I know the team in several GOs surgeries when they take the DM on the day they regularly cover medicines, just to be aware of what the most likely 'issue' they will see that day. Sigh.

If you take a look and try to read it again in a few weeks I imagine it’ll be like how Ex smokers react to the smell of smoke, you’ll heave.

I look every few days purely from a sociological aspect to see how people are being manipulated and misled, its very toxic and dangerous but also mirrors a lot of the general mood in the UK.

I find the women body shaming disgusting. Or let's say, not overtly body shaming, but their obsession with women's legginess or bustyness or toned abs can only mean one thing. Then there are their women writers who contribute the nastiest stuff but we have to gobble it because they're women and they "represent" us. Vile rag.

@cansu

Mouseonmychair The Telegraph is quite clearly a campaigning newspaper on behalf of the government. The govment use it to leak stories they want in the press on a regular basis. The idea that it is unbiased is simply laughable. I can't comment on the Times as I haven't read it.

Yes, I agree that it is biased, but I like it because it tries to be as positive as it can be about the UK and women's rights.

The Guardian is so negative about the UK and women.

@Ostryga

I read all the papers to get opinions from each view. And to see how things are reported and the spin put on them. It’s good to keep up to date with how people will perceive certain things I think.

Agree with this 100%.