In feeling that MN is rather like reading the Daily Mail today???

[CountessDracula]

truly

cant say everyone reading the observer group of papers is much better tbh

lol, I don't read any paper... just catch the news from time to time.

Should I start a thread about not having time to read a paper? that's MNs fault as well.

Fairfly said the same thing a couple of nights ago

I just hide the threads now - they are tedious and not worth posting on

I realised the other day that the only reason I know what Kerry Katona is up to is because I'm on MN.

Now that can't be right??

Zippi, I think so long as one doesn't unquestioningly regurgitate the paper's contents/ethos, I'm not sure it matters what you read.
The threads in question are from posters who, IMO, wholeheartedly buy into the DM editorial mindset. Unfortunately.
My grandpa, who was a clean-living old Baptist gardener, called the Daily Mail the Hoors' Gazette and that was back in the 60s. Some things don't change.

YANBU. It's true. But don't despair - read Twiglett's literary "clit in a slit" thread if you need cheering up.

my grandma used to refer to the paper

unfortunately the paper was more commonly known as

the news of the world

which told the truth of course

ah and

well its not in other papers cos they wont print the truth

yanbu, some people really need something better to do.

See, this is why I'm loving the "hide" thingie. I can almost have MN how I want it ...

I read the DM, but I a more than capable of making up my own mind about issues. Maybe the old timers on MN don't like new people disagreeing with them.

There have been a few odd threads which seem to try to kick off a fight but haven't really succeeded as everyone keeps backing other people up LOL

I have posted on threads I wouldn't normally post on and have come back after 8 hours and they are still going ....

I don't read the Mail so have no idea what this is about either

See what I mean ...

those DMesque threads have got to be trolls.

And I wish they'd bugger off. This is a parenting website; they should be writing fanmail to their hero; Richard Littlejohn.

On reading some of these threads, the DM is looking very attractive.

I don't get Mumsnetters pre-occupation with the DM. Anyone says anything and it is used as an insult.
"Oh she is so ignorant, must be beacuse she reads the DM"
I just don't get it.
Are other people not ignorant, or hold, god forbid, different views to us. Or is it only DM readers.
And yes, o.k. I buy it on a sunday. I love the you magazine. God, is that SUCH A SIN ?

And I am not the only person who loves to read Liz Jones sorry state of affirs that she details, as her life. I have been on threads , on this topic with the likes of Moondog and wickedwaterwitch. Does that make all three of us totally ignorant ?

Oh dear god not the Daily Mail AGAIN. Give us a break

Like I say Oblomov, I read the daily mail because I like their articles. I don't always agree with their politics, but the way I see the world going at them moment I actually agree with them more and more. Having said all that, I am, as I have said previously, more than able to make up my own mind about matters, both political and social. I work in a school in a very socially deprived area and I probably see things on a daily basis that the "guardian readers" may not see in their whole lives.

And how would you know that, PT?

Just as prejudiced to slag off Guardian readers as well.

Mn is totally obsessed out of all proportion with the DM.

I agree I shouldn't have said Guardian readersand that this makes me just as bad, but I do genuinely think that some people just don't realise what is happening in world outside their door.

no you shouldnt have said guardian readers you should have said observer group

like i did lol

its all a bit of cliche isnt it

would we like to all chill lol