Daily Mail Bashing

[TheDrunkard2009]

I am a Guardian reader and hate the Daily

Mail, but FFS must have every fucking thread

I read bash someone's comment they don't

like and accuse them of being a DM reader.

It's getting fucking boring now, think up

something more original please, you're

obviously a bright bunch of women.

Thankyou

"The" country I sound like Winston Churchill, I meant this country

well,LOL usually a pre-requisite of reading is interesting subject matter/positive anticipation

but certainly Ian McEwan fulfils the plenty pain no gain school of literature

"usually a pre-requisite of reading is interesting subject matter/positive anticipation"

I suppose that's more true with a novel which is a bit of a time investment, but for me absolutely not with newspapers and shampoo bottles etc.

As for McEwen, that's whole other thread isn't it. I thought On Chesil Beach was so shinily written and yet so weirdly vacuous and disappointing and fantastically depressing. But now you see I will have to read the next one, even though I anticipate it will really wind me up, just to see him at it again.

I don't know anyone who reads the Daily Mail

But of course it is a most hideous and loathsome newspaper and I don't know any hideous and loathsome people, so perhaps it figures ...

I think lots of people read/scan the DM, at least on line if not on paper, in a simple case of "Know thine enemy" - how can we rail against the shite within if we don't know what shite it is spouting?

What Pruners (originally) said.

And Lucy Mangan could take Zoe, Hadley and Jess with one hand tied behind her back

"how can we rail against the shite within if we don't know what shite it is spouting?"

I rely on Mumsnet to keep a close watch on the pulse of the Daily Mail.

ah yes QC - but someone has to immolate themselves on the pyre of good taste to be able to post about it on MN, don't they.

you are off your head, fruit. mangan would trip over her granny sandals in a fight.

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lol. i love it.

the first rule of write club is 'always recycle every shitey half-arsed thing that happens to you, or a friend, or friend of a friend in your column'.

LOL muffle pringles for the brain.we are all bombarded schleb deitritus

i am bemused at

a i dont read it avidly however i do read to familiarise myself with my enemy and the insidious misogny of society - uh huh,so you read as an enquiring and explorative mind.

b the lumpen masses believe the misogynistic/blah blah but not i.no siree i have a greater cortex capacity

look,read what you want,think what you want.But ascribing positive attributes to yourself reading the DM,whilst denigrating its readership is sanctimonious

i am an avaricious reader,and watch lots news.so naturally i know jist of DM but don't feel compelled to first hand read something i dont like

The best by a mile is surely Nancy Banks-Smith though? Did anyone else notice that when the photos were updated a year or so ago, she seemed to get 15 years younger? She used to look like one of the Shreddies 'nanas', now looks like a right glamorous granny.

Lucy Mangan is a bit, erm, dull, IMO.

Aitch, totally agree about quality of journalism. From experience of inside tabloids (in a former life ), they are right clever folks.

i worship NBS. although i am told she is hard work to manage...

Hear Hear Pruners on New Statesman. I second that.

I also sent a complaint to Obs Woman Editor after its' first issue, as it did come across as woman-hating. The things I recall which angered me were...

Gordon Ramsay saying that he classifies women into 2 groups: something like the great and the crap (sounded much worse when he said it)

Some execrable tosser journo going on about how American women are all brilliant and British women are all crap (convinced about the woman-hating thing, now?)

The usually brilliant Joan Bakewell (I'm sure it was her) saying in the 'what I know about men' page that basically if a man demanded to get his rocks off with you you had a duty to comply.

I'm guessing you can see why it made me blow my top.

(Am amazed I recall it so well, it was some years ago. Puts paid to the bollocks about pregnancy brain, doesn't it? )

but i don't read it SM.

nor do i

Me neither. After all this newspaper talk this week, though, I have decided to renew my New Statesman subscription (am of Pruners' compliments from a stranger - I always liked to think people were staring awe-struck at me when I used to hold it up at eye-level on the train for them all to see...now I want actual praise and hero-worship! )

It's just a newspaper, I'm sure that we would all agree that we are more than capable of making our own minds up, from our own life experiences, of what is really going on in the world without being unduly influenced by outside forces.

I know what you're saying but the puzzle pull out in the middle is good, ain't it?

are you being sarcastic, capt?

we are all formed by outside forces, and further shaped every day. the mail is hugely influential.

ScottishMummy, I don't think I have said anything about what the "masses" or "real" DM readers think of it or how it affects them or whether they blindly lap it up. When I talked about women I mean the women who write in the Daily Mail - the things they seem to want to say, and how and why, and why they are so non-feminist (I have that fascination for the guardian too though). As for its effects, I think it does affect everyone, but that readers also have a capacity to think, assess and reject, whoever they are. I think we probably have more capacity to do that the more different things we read, though.

muffle,i have read thread and after reflection this is my reflection of all posts.

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