AIBU to assume that the majority of posters read The Daily Mail or The Telegraph??

[Greysowhat]

I relatively new around here but judging from several threads about flags, trans and autistic, people, there seems to be a lot of posters who love seeing the St Georges Cross up everywhere, are anti-trans and wouldn't give much credence to the struggles that autistic people face. Seems to me they must believe everything they read in The Mail or The Telegraph. Or am I being unreasonable?!

What do you look at / read for news op?

There is a lot of Faragey bot spam on here at the moment.

Fortunately quite a lot of people can see through it. You can't convince people that a load of people painting flags on things in their spare time are anything but bored twats.

They will have to wait for civil unrest.

Did you mean to be so rude?

The ops question is a reasonable one to ask based on the responses on some threads.

I dont read any newspapers.

I watch different news programmes across a few channels

The majority of women are against transwomen being allowed to share womens single sex spaces. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to escape their guardianista bubble and join the real world.

I used to read the guardian but stopped about 10 years ago. Their views on trans issues are so far removed from mine, anyone I know or any part of the society I lived in it seemed the guardian writers were a totally different species to me. Where do these people live? Is it all north London champagne socialists?

My flatmate used to get the Mail. I’d flick through it looking for an article about a genuine current affair and fail every time. No one cares about what a former birds of a feather actor is up to now.

Seems to me they must believe everything they read in The Mail or The Telegraph. Or am I being unreasonable?!

Depends. Do you believe everything the BBC publish?

I’m pro women, this doesn’t mean that I’m anti trans. I’m patriotic and would always support my country, this doesn’t mean that I’m racist.

I don’t read any newspaper or watch news on the tv. I prefer to know facts rather than whatever the state owned media is broadcasting

Only paper I subscribe to is the IPaper, cancelled now through disappointment. They send more news via email than put on the website.
Everyone looks at The Mail Online, whether admitting it or not, as it has the most current updates. I look at the Guardian, ignoring their begging for donations.

I read anything that's not behind a paywall. I would like more on Europe and less of America. US reader comments in the MOL have become insulting since Trump and Vance made their derogatory remarks.
Yesterday a woman said the UK is years behind the US in computer technology, yet no other commentor pointed out, that an Englishman invented the WWW.

I like to believe the majority, like myself, read a range of publications.
I'm centre left (ish), but had a subscription to the Telegraph for a while. The Daily Mail I read very occasionally.

I think it's important, regardless of one's politics, to read widely so you can reasonably argue different points of view.

Mumsnet being "hard left" is one of the funniest things I've read in ages.

The newspaper of choice on MN is generally the Guardian.

Incredibly, Guardian reading MNers actually seem to believe what they read in it.

I read The Daily Telegraph. The Guardian is just so suffocatingly smug I’d need an oxygen mask to get through it. I don’t agree with the Telegraph on everything btw. It’s very much a royalist paper, and even though I’m a conservative I’m a republican. I cannot bear the royal family and wish we’d never brought them back in the 1660s. I also loathe fox hunting and blood sports, which the Telegraph supports. However, unlike the Guardian, the Telegraph is tolerant and fair towards those with different opinions. One of the striking things about the left is their utter contempt for everyone who disagrees with them. (We are right about everything, so just shut up and do what we tell you.) They constantly whinge about intolerance, yet no one on earth is more intolerant than them.

I assume you are old as don’t know anyone who had read a newspaper in at least 15 years.

The Mail is actually a paper aimed at women. I read it, even though I may not necessarily agree with political opinions (which are not all right wing). Yesterday we had an article about Jennifer Aniston, something from Nadine Dorries, an article about a girl who died from ketamine, and the author who took some as an experiment; Amanda Platell telling about the five marriage proposals she received over her lifetime; an article about obesity with a picture of a woman's waist with a tape measure around it etc. Recently we've had articles about Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy (written by women and detailing their personal experiences), an article about Armani and some of the dresses he created and the actresses who wore them, a woman whose son was stolen and adopted, a woman who likes to sleep with younger men, a 49 yo woman who's living off her parents etc. etc. I accept that SOME men might be interested in these things, but not the vast majority. And interestingly, the Mail costs £1.20 compared with £1.80 for most other tabloids.

I would say it's economically right wing - very anti SAHMs, big families - quite judgemental if people are struggling financially.

And socially left wing - pro lock down, big state, "progressive" on social issues.

I would think anyone who genuinely wanted to educate themselves nowadays would read from a wide range of sources.

Those filled with hate, usually shout the loudest.

Do people still read newspapers?

Not been on the Canary for a while have you?

Hard left my arse…

I suspect they’re flooding social media on purpose @Greysowhat.

Also, expect them to refer to everyone from the Lib Dem’s leftwards as hard left 😂

I'm gay with an autistic partner, and I read the Telegraph and the Times.

The Daily Mail and The Guardian are perhaps the only free titles left of the main newspapers, so I'm guessing a lot of people, like me, read both. I'd also think - and very much hope - that only a tiny minority believe everything they read in either. They're both businesses with a target audience to attract and reassure, after all.

BBC although I know it's biased. Just look at how they cover the genocide in Gaza. The Independent years ago when it was more "independent", The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Also thejournal.ie