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To think the people who slag off the Daily Mail are on the site 10x a day?

29 replies

Suzi89 · 10/01/2023 14:19

I see so many threads slagging off the Daily Mail by people seem to know exactly what is going on on their website at all times. Surely if you dislike a paper and what they stand you shouldn’t be obsessively clicking on their website and helping to add to their revenue?

I use the Apple News app which does not print anything from the Daily Mail so I genuinely don’t know what they’re printing and I find it so bizarre their biggest detractors are keeping them in business by constantly reading the site. I don’t think you can take the moral high ground on a website you’re clearly addicted to reading.

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PAFMO · 10/01/2023 14:21

It's like GF namechangers. They're everywhere.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 10/01/2023 14:22

It’s just posturing. They like to think that they are superior to someone, somewhere. ( sometimes against all prevailing evidence)

SnackyOnassis · 10/01/2023 14:56

Nah, I don't ever read it. I detest it as a publication, along with the Sun, and if there's a link to either of those sites in particular shared that I want to read the article on, I'll google the subject matter and find another source to avoid giving them clicks.
Maybe it's petty, but I don't want to give them the business.

Also worth noting that it's nothing to do with feeling superior to anyone else - it's something that's important to me and I don't really give a shit where other people get their news. My parents and grandparents are tabloid readers and lovely people, and I don't love them any less because of it, so the same logic applies to other people.
Outward MAGA heads, BNP supporters or other identified bigots, racists etc can get in the bin, though.

SleeplessInEngland · 10/01/2023 14:58

Well I certainly don't ever read it, but it's well known that low-level Mail staff post links on big forums, even under the guise of slagging the paper off.

Theluggage15 · 10/01/2023 14:59

It’s very cringey when people say the Daily Fail or apologise for the link. Just tedious.

Alicesweewonders · 10/01/2023 15:02

The only thing the DM is good for is wiping your arse

xogossipgirlxo · 10/01/2023 15:03

Theluggage15 · 10/01/2023 14:59

It’s very cringey when people say the Daily Fail or apologise for the link. Just tedious.

Yep. And they still paste it. It has to be found somehow!

neverknowinglyunreasonable · 10/01/2023 15:06

Alicesweewonders · 10/01/2023 15:02

The only thing the DM is good for is wiping your arse

This is simply not true. Please try toilet paper, I promise you that you won't go back to scratchy tabloids.

MaryMcCarthy · 10/01/2023 15:06

For a long time I mindlessly visited the site but something clicked a couple of years back and I genuinely feel dirty having a Daily Mail page open these days.

One thing that kept me going back was rubber-necking the comment sections just to see how mad the readership was, but it became clear the comments and upvotes were being manipulated, one way or another.

I occasionally still visit the Express site, if only to let off steam in the comments sections because you'll always find someone there willing to argue an utterly preposterous position.

smileladiesplease · 10/01/2023 15:07

Yes the daily fail is so silly it's like 'look at me I am so right on snd funny' the mirror is equally as stupid as the mail for nonsense difto the sun. amazed anyone buys them or reads the comments

smileladiesplease · 10/01/2023 15:09

'I genuinely feel dirty having the daily mail page on ' oh please enough drama with whinge and whinger on here

hattie43 · 10/01/2023 15:13

Everybody pertains to hate the Daily Mail but strangely everyone reads it . It is the most widely read paper of all apparently.

thereisonlyoneofme · 10/01/2023 15:20

Its the paper they stock most copies of at our newsagent and the one that sells out.

QueenCamilla · 10/01/2023 16:17

Anyone whose main source on anything "news" is Guardian should be equally apologetic before giving their opinions and sources.

Impartial press is still a daydream in this country. Class, populism, virtue signalling, extremism of politics... It's all just so... British. So pretentious. So engineered and so wrapped up in the choice of paper.

I've even seen it on Tinder: no Daily Mail readers please.
Oh, so we're now at that point where a bloke would kick a hot bird out of his bed at Uni digs if she's seen with Daily Mail tab open... 😂🤣 Right. As if.

Makes me wanna' read up and then go and f*ck all the vegans anyway 😂

As it stands, I only follow my local news online. What does that say about me? I hope nothing bad, or I'll have to change ASAP!

PenguinsOnToast · 10/01/2023 17:00

MaryMcCarthy · 10/01/2023 15:06

For a long time I mindlessly visited the site but something clicked a couple of years back and I genuinely feel dirty having a Daily Mail page open these days.

One thing that kept me going back was rubber-necking the comment sections just to see how mad the readership was, but it became clear the comments and upvotes were being manipulated, one way or another.

I occasionally still visit the Express site, if only to let off steam in the comments sections because you'll always find someone there willing to argue an utterly preposterous position.

you'll always find someone there willing to argue an utterly preposterous position. - don't you just come on here for that?

DuplicateUserName · 10/01/2023 17:05

hattie43 · 10/01/2023 15:13

Everybody pertains to hate the Daily Mail but strangely everyone reads it . It is the most widely read paper of all apparently.

It's always been hands down the most read and linked to paper on Mumsnet.

The whole penis beaker thing made me chuckle when MNetters would pretend it's made lots of Daily Mail readers sign up to MN.

Errrr nope, MN has always been full of Daily Mail readers. They just don't like admitting it and reading their Olympic 'but but' explanations for having apparently 'stumbled across an article', can often be hilarious.

Vates · 10/01/2023 17:07

I read the daily mail daily but don't agree with the extreme right wing attitudes. It is like a free online magazine to me. I don't respect it or any of the writers I have read but it has a place.

RoseMadderAsHell · 10/01/2023 17:08

I skim-read the headlines on all the online newspaper sites, as well as BBC news. It doesn't take long and it's interesting to compare what each sees as the main news of the day.
If the same item is front page everywhere then it's probably true!

daemonologie · 10/01/2023 17:16

The Daily Mail you have to pay for online. MailOnline however Is free but more focused on celebs and the royal family. School teachers and Uni lecturers used to put pupils/students off the Daily Mail. Not sure if they still do that nowadays.
The Guardian is the worst paper. Used to read it quite often but it's too preachy and I'm sure written by students. It keeps coming up on my news suggestions though. They must know.

barneshome · 10/01/2023 17:27

But they believe everything they see and hear in the Guardian and on the BBC

StrawberryWater · 10/01/2023 17:35

barneshome · 10/01/2023 17:27

But they believe everything they see and hear in the Guardian and on the BBC

Er no.

Can’t stand the Daily Mail. It’s poisonous.

But the BBC etc have their own massive biases. They might not be as overt with it but they can be just as bad/ridiculous with the things they print.

Florissant · 10/01/2023 17:47

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 10/01/2023 14:22

It’s just posturing. They like to think that they are superior to someone, somewhere. ( sometimes against all prevailing evidence)

I agree.

SleeplessInEngland · 10/01/2023 17:51

daemonologie · 10/01/2023 17:16

The Daily Mail you have to pay for online. MailOnline however Is free but more focused on celebs and the royal family. School teachers and Uni lecturers used to put pupils/students off the Daily Mail. Not sure if they still do that nowadays.
The Guardian is the worst paper. Used to read it quite often but it's too preachy and I'm sure written by students. It keeps coming up on my news suggestions though. They must know.

Actually the average age of a Mail writer is likely far younger. It hires slews of graduates to churn out 6+ articles a day for its site, hence the massive volume of content. The funny part is they produce so many articles they don’t have enough sub-editors to proof read them, so many are littered with spelling and grammatical errors.

smileladiesplease · 10/01/2023 17:57

My dm used to buy the daily mail and dad the times. They both read the dm but not the times. Used that for cat wee. Dad was just a snob Smile

StoneofDestiny · 10/01/2023 18:11

Mail and Sun hideous 'news'papers. Tory rags for those unable to think for themselves.