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AIBU?

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to be annoyed with the Daily Mail on Miriam Gonzalez Durantez's behalf?

56 replies

Oenopod · 14/05/2010 16:15

I know I shouldn't have looked but I followed a link from somewhere on here and arrived at the DM website.

There were at least two articles about and/or referring to Nick Clegg's wife as Mrs Clegg or Miriam Clegg, when that is not her name.

She has made it abundantly clear that her name is Miriam Gonzalez Durantez.

More irritatingly the DM were referring to her correctly in March and early April, but then she made a comment about how patronising it was for the media to devote so much time to the spouses, and since then the DM seems to be making a point by taking her identity away and deliberately calling her something that (IMO) puts her in her place, so to speak.

So AIBU? Or should I just stop following links to the DM?

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GrendelsMum · 14/05/2010 19:40

The thing I find amusing is that my mum's (left wing) Spanish newspaper is anti the LibDems, for the logical argument that Miriam Gonzalez Durantez is the daughter of a PP (i.e. centre right) senator. Because obviously leaders of political parties are hugely influenced by their late father-in-laws...

Ivykaty44 · 14/05/2010 21:04

there are so many links to the daily mail from this site I am begining to wonder if some posts are deliberate to get hits?

Oenopod · 14/05/2010 21:07

maybe some posts ivykaty but not mine. It's not all a conspiracy!

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Ivykaty44 · 14/05/2010 21:08

yeh right...! I would love to beleive and thousands will

Oenopod · 14/05/2010 21:19

Maybe the links and cross-referencing is because the DM and MN have such polarised views (massive generalisation, I know). So that is why the DM is always trawling MN for non-stories and why MN posters often get outraged by the DM. Maybe nothing more sinister than that.

And I really don't like the idea that you think I might be a DM stooge

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Ivykaty44 · 15/05/2010 15:40

You really don't like it that I think you are a daily mail stooge - then don't read or link to it and I would think neither

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