Disgusted with the Daily Mail - yet again [scream]

[bibbitybobbitybloodyaxe]

Story in dm today about horrible act of animal cruelty which was filmed and uploaded to YouTube.

Daily Fucking Disgusting Mail chooses to illustrate the story with stills from the video! On the front page of the website.

This sort of "journalism" makes me want to go aaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh.

I couldn't quite believe what I was looking at......and it wasn't just in the Mail. There was no need whatsoever to print those stills. Disgraceful, I agree.

Stills - and a link to the fucking video if you please!

Several people have pleaded with the Mail to remove them, but they are still up.

I am going to write a letter of complaint this time, I really am.

aren't the 'disgusting' people those that committed the cruelty rather than those that reported it?

The world is full of bad news. Grow up

What the hell do you mean "grow up"? Why is it not grown up to object to the lurid reporting of this story? People do not have to see a kitten being fed to a python to know that it suffered and that the perpetrator was guilty of a horrific act of cruelty. Why is the Daily Mail encouraging more people to look at something so traumatising?

newsappers/news sites can't just report 'fluffy' news because some people are overly sensitive.

Quite right nancy66. People need to see news in the raw.

Personally, I never understood why the Mail didn't publish a link to Kenneth Bigley's beheading. After all, he was a whiny Scouser who was making loads of money and had a younger Thai bride. It's normally open season on them in the Mail.

The OP CHOSE to click on a link of a graphic video - that came with warnings attached (although actually it really wasn't that bad)
Presumably she watched the whole thing and was then outraged.

Take responsibility. If you don't like cruelty to animals don't watch videos depicting it.

Nanacy66 - it is nothing to do with reporting 'fluffy news'. I dont see Bibs objecting to them reporting the story, just their decision to illustrate it with those stills.

Fact is, those pictures are not being used to further the readers understanding of the story, but just for people to gawp at. And they will. Maybe that means people are getting what they want, the DM are catering for fuckwits and dressing it up as outrage. As per.

I've seen a version of the story - but it was the next day so I don't know if it was later edited.

The pictures I saw weren't graphic at all.

I DID NOT CHOOSE TO CLICK ON A LINK OF A GRAPHIC VIDEO!

I OBJECT TO STILLS FROM THE VIDEO AND A CLICKABLE LINK TO THE VIDEO BEING SLAP BANG RIGHT THERE ON THE HOME PAGE OF THE WEBSITE.

Astonished that you are so spectacularly missing the point Nancy.

I know you will want to defend the DM because you work there but truly sometimes it is just a vile rag.

If you hate it the site so much why do you visit it?

i watched the video. It wasn't that graphic. Neither were the pictures.

I agree totally about taking responsibility for your own actions nancy66.

I'm just wondering why the Mail didn't give readers the option of clicking on a link to Kenneth Bigley's murder after posting the appropriate warnings. Can you help?

Do you think the answer might be that in the film Bib talked about people would get angry with the perpetrator, whereas showing graphic video of a murder people might make people angry with the Mail as well?

Talking of fluffy news, I find pix of animals in fancy dress nauseating. But the Mail considers them to be popular which is presumably why they reluctantly drop their robust approach to hard news from time to time.

Oh FFS are people still whining on about this? Have a wank over it, you might feel better.

limited - i think there's a world of difference between a man having his head hacked off by terrorists and a kitten being swallowed whole by a snake.

agree with you on the animals in fancy dress though....

Could you put in a word then, nancy66

It's the newspaper readers that like the cutesie animal pictures - not the online ones.

Online has a young, international audience, the paper is read by middle-aged housewives in Harrogate who love a monkey in a tuxedo

nancy, love that bit about housewives loving a monkey in a tuxedo, fucking brilliant :)