AIBU in thinking that all readers (and writers) of the Daily Mail should be put to death?

[TiggyD]

Well?

Right-wing, over-reacting, paparazzi funding, health scare loving, minority hating sub-literature for busy bodies, racists and little Englanders who live in the past?

You can assume that the people in the BNP who can read both buy the Daily Mail.

Be nice; you just know that somebody at the Mail will read this

I am fond of the Facebook group 'I'd rather chew my own nipples off than buy the Daily Mail'

To be serious, I read the Mail quite a bit. The layout is very easy to read and it seems to have quite a bit of news in it. The main problem is the same with most papers. They have an agenda. The paper is very right-wing. I wish there was a paper like the BBC tries to be. Unbiased.

YANBU to think that thought. Thinking is never wrong.

Expressing the thought or putting it into practice ... well, both might be considered somewhat extreme.

My Mom was a life-long leftie and used to buy the DM every week because she thought it had the best TV supplement . Me ... I read it when I go to my partner's parent's house because I like to know what I'm going to be up against over Sunday lunch ...

YABU. In condoning the death penalty, that puts you on the same level as a typical Daily Mail reader ;)

What a silly thread title.

It's highly doubtful that the OP, quite obviously pitchfork carrying and baying for blood, understands the irony of her own thread title.
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Takes all sorts I suppose...

The real irony is that I can't even read!

Yes dear, we know that.....

I'd rather poke my eyes out with a shitty stick than read the Daily Hate Mail. It's racist, sexist, homophobic, inaccurate, scaremongering and loves to stir up the ignorant masses in a revolt against anything that isn't the Nazi ideal.
I don't like it at all.

It's a dreadful paper. So, however, are The Sun, The Express, The Mirror, The Star and The Sport. I'm not overfond of The Telegraph either... Not that I'm fussy or anything.

I can't comment, as I have never read it! But surely all newspapers have a slant?

I'd rather do away with all the celebrity-trivia publications: I think they are the REAL reason society is "going to the dogs"! People seem to be more interested in whether some random celeb has lost/ gained a few pounds/ bought a new pair of shoes/ had a tiff with their unremarkable OH than in things that (should) actually matter.

Death is a bit harsh. I'd lock them in a room with James Corden myself.

I really don't like this idea of newspapers as comics/ light relief. Fair enough, there are lots of diverting features etc in papers like the DM but surely silly rags should be a supplement to a decent paper, not a replacement for one.

I read an entire DM from cover to cover once when on holiday and unable to find anything else. Poor DP, I read almost every word out to him in rising tones of disbelief and outrage.

I'm still traumatised

Although they are undoubtedly the go-to website for those crucial 'female celebrity in two pound weight fluctuation' shots we all love so much.

I would say that the OP is being bigotted

I do hope everybody who thinks I am really encouraging the deaths of 2 million Mail readers has phoned the police.

YABU. If you don't read the Mail, you are missing out on some very important stories that you won't find in any of the other papers. The reason that the Mail receives so much opprobrium is that the Guardianistas are frightened to death off it, because it won't play ball and persists in embarrassing them by revealing part of the truth on global warming, swine flu and many other important issues.

death of

YABU

save your outrage for something...more serious ?

I sometimes read it. It makes me feel smug.

It's racist, it's unintelligent journalism, it's often plagiarised from other sources, it's dumbed down writing, it's right wing, it's inflammatory, it's all the things pps have said it is.

It's also a product of the society it was born into, where a free press is part of its culture and heritage.

YABU.

Yabvvu. Censorship is censorship and has no place in a free society.

Personally I'd cull Heat/More readers.

Maybe put to death is a bit harsh.

How about if we forced them all into a lecture theatre, to listen to an actress talk about how she felt when the DM printed pictures of her 'cellulite' when she was playing on the beach with her kids, and how she spent the next month throwing up her meals.

Then they could have a refugee talk about how they actually get bugger all money or housing from the government, and rely on charities to survive. And how they get dog shit shoved through the letterbox and spat at in the street every time the DM prints one of its 'bogus asylum seekers get £50k a year' stories.

Next up - why not? - Ben Goldacre on how to tell the difference between responsible scientific reporting and scaremongering.

Because I don't think DM readers are bad people necessarily, just terminally misinformed.

claig, I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but when you say it prints 'the truth about swine flu', did you mean the first lot of articles when it started, going "OMG, we're all going to die! Bodies piling up in the streets! Society will fall apart! Riots! Starvation!", or the second batch, saying "Well, that was no problem, I don't know why the media printed such ridiculous scaremongering"?

yabu, and an idiot.

I cant believe people are so defensive about being Daily Mail readers/supporters.

With the myriad of different newspapers and means of obtaining news available in this day and age, why choose the insidious Mail?

And of course all newspapers have a slant or leaning - that's hardly a revelation! It's just that the vast majority of them aren't anywhere near as bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobic, ad nauseam as the Mail.

Again - I just don't get why it is the paper of choice of anyone who doesn't align themselves with its intolerant views.

The only time I ever read it is if in a forum such as this one when someone posts a link - whereby I am instantly reminded of exactly why I choose not to read it.

I meant that it tells us part of the truth that others won't touch. It's not good enough, but it's better than the rest. Yes it does what the rest of the pack such as the Guardian and Ben Goldacre does, predicting doom unless we change our ways, that we are already past the tipping point, and that a hair shirt will no longer be enough, but occasionally it redeems itself, whilst the others maintain an embarrassed silence i.e.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-revea ls-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html

The smug patronising chatterati hate it because it pricks the bubble of their conceit and exposes to the world that they have been had. They are not quite as clever as they thought they were and that's guaranteed to get them hopping mad invoking all of the invectives they can find. It is painful for them to have to question their assumptions, it's easier for them to carry on sticking their heads in the sand.

"yabu, and an idiot."

well quite

can't you read and discriminate?

read them all