"Like heroin...toxic...distilled evil and cruelty"... a description of The Daily Fail!

[ishchel]

Best deconstruction yet of that miserable rag.
www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/how-bad-is-the-daily-mail-for-you-20130716-2q1py.html

'I think you are lucky to have found the Mail. You have obviously found your level. Well done!'

Thanks. I'm not at your level yet, but I'm slowly working my way up.

I should imagine that the internal magazine of the Taliban reads a bit like the Daily Mail.

Despite that, free speech is free speech and rather than inform debate, newspapers only ever reflect the prejudices of their readership - same as the Telegraph, Guardian or even the Morning Star.

They really are utterly despicable. Recently they had an article about a couple who had had their caravan stolen and lost out because they hadn't paid their insurance premium were "between insurance policies". It apparently turned up being occupied by a Traveller family who said they had bought it, and the police told them they couldn't just take it back for them and they'd have to make a court claim. Anyone who knows anything about law know that that is just basic property law that has been in place for at least a hundred years - it's not up to the police to decide who owns the caravan, and they can't just seize it back on one person's say-so.

So the Mail printed a classic hate the police-hate gypsies - hate Human Rights piece, claiming that the sole reason the police couldn't seize the van was human rights. Only the police had never once mentioned human rights and their reasoning had nothing whatsoever to do with human rights. But sure enough, the website had several of the hard-of-thinking frothing at the mouth and proclaiming (yet again) that the country is going to the dogs, which is precisely the result the Mail wanted from what was a blatant lie.

"Where else can you find thinkers like Melanie Phillips, Peter Hitchens and Richard Littlejohn?"

Thinkers? That's a bit optimistic, isn't it? I can never detect anything by way of real thought when Littlejohn churns out one of his articles relying solely on tedious catchphrases and tired references to ancient sitcoms and Minder; certainly basic research seems to be an entirely foreign concept to him. Though there was of course that delightful article when he said of five murder victims "in the scheme of things the deaths of these five women is no great loss."

Exactly, Sinister.