Why do you post on these threads scottishmummy, often the same points over and over?
You're obviously drawn to the debate, despite not reading the DM yourself.
In exactly the same way as people like me are drawn to the debate despite not buying it ourselves.
If you have no interest in the DM why do you always turn up on these threads with your vague, endlessly repeated mutterings about herds, picking it up in cafes, and irony?
Why don't you fully explain what you mean and be done with it?
It's not about herds - most people who don't like a newspaper will have held that belief long before they logged on to their favourite chat site online.
The DM is vile - it's not enough to say 'you don't have to read it'. I can't abide that argument. Of course nobody has to buy the DM. Nobody has to take their kids to see High School Musical, nobody has to buy them processed cheese for lunch and nobody has to read Heat magazine.
But we are all allowed a critical voice, and have the right to say that we personally think that these things are shite, and to say why.
It's a no-win argument anyway. If I say 'I don't read the DM because I think it's shite' then you will say 'How do you know it's shite then if you don't read it'.
But if I say 'I read the DM and I think it's shite' then you will say 'Why do you read it then, just buy something else'.
Meanwhile thousands of people do buy it and do read its endless supply of racist, sexist etc stories. Which adds to the sum of racism, sexism etc in the world, and makes the job of liberals all the harder.
I'm not a member of a herd thanks, and if you have clear arguments as to why you think I actually am, then feel free to present them.
It's hardly arrogant to think that people who actually pay money for a daily newspaper might believe much of what it prints. Nowt to do with 'masses'.