Are you also wanting all other news sites and where ever else its mentioned banned? I do find it odd the 'ban the DM!' threads.
The DM is the ONLY sizeable UK paper with a subscriber base that includes significantly more women than men. There’s definitely a classist element at play among people choosing particular papers to rail against/ridicule/ban, but when you get “ban the Mail!” and not one word about the comparable but far more virulent Daily Express - which prompted a caution from the UN High Comissioner of Human Rights and whose own editor apologised for fomenting xenophobia - common sense suggests there’s misogyny at play, too.
"Reporting" on material readily available on line has been an irritating habit of various news outlets for years, even very well established ones like the BBC or CNN who’ve been including a selection of topical tweets in their mainstream news coverage for as long as Twitter has existed. But I wonder if the MN/DM link seems especially strong because the outlets with majority male subscriber bases believe that men will be less interested in content explicitly tied to what’s again a fairly rare large-majority-woman media/communications vehicle?
The landscape is a lot more complex now than simply Mail = load of shit.
Absolutely. Also, the almost complete shift from print to online “journalism” has really jumbled the old traditions of specific media outlets catering to specific schools of political and social thought. The really obvious sexism of The Guardian, for example - which became difficult to ignore after their “coverage” of the Cologne incidents, as a few posters have detailed upthread - is quite regressive and extremely socially conservative and would seem to undermine their previous reputation as a “progressive” force.
Good advice from DuncinToffee: if you see an article that’s wrong, biased, widely offensive, contact the publisher and complain about that specific content. However, you can’t do that without reading it, and it seems pretty clear that some (all?) for-profit publications fuel and thrive off of the “outrage clicks”.
I’d have more sympathy right now with an impassioned plea to consider banning links from Russian government-funded and -controlled media (RT, Sputnik, etc.) - not on the grounds of social disapproval or lack of ability of MN’ers to critically evaluate articles, but rather from the stance of economic opposition to funding the Russian government as they commit war crimes in Ukraine.