Revolting Paper........Daily Mail

[wiltshire]

I am going to break the habit of a lifetime here as I despise anyone copying the comments of other posters. I think that it is really annoying, as if the person can't make up their own comments or something. However a recent post had me intrigued. Here goes.

'thats the daily mail for you.
revolting paper.'

Just out of curiousity, I would like to know why the Mail is so revolting.

Ronan Bennet?

I have read this article which I found quite interesting. Could this be true!! Is P Dacre some sort of manipulative nutter

Oooops forgot to paste

www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,441198,00.html

I am afraid Ronan Bennett is far too 'intelligent' for me as I am only reading the DM as I think the Sun would make me look unintelligent. Actually I used the phrase 'going to hell in a handcart' because Richard Littlejohn used to use it in the Sun on a regular basis

Actually, the reason I don't read the Sun is because I like a paper to last at least as long as it takes me to have a cup of tea and a fag in the morning. I can finish the Sun whilst switching on the kettle and putting the tea bag in the cup!!

Thanks, Sophable. I didn't read it - awful weekend: dd has chickenpox, dh is ill and depressed - and I didn't do much paper reading. I'll look it out tomorrow.

oldiemum: so sorry about your w/e hope that ds and dh get better soon. I'm not sure you should look up this article - it had me in tears (of sadness and fury): maybe you should stick to the food monthly ?

wiltshire, I just read the Dacre piece - this bit jumped out at me:

I know I said earlier re the Graun that what a columnist says isn't necessarily the paper's "line" but am wondering if this is the exception...?

if you do feel like reading it, i've found it online: here

Thanks. Have you seen today's piece by Martin Jacques here ?

good piece oldiemum, thanks. i am so depressed by it all it's not true. feel like i'm bringing ds into a really f**ked up world and living in a country that is doing something insane and with a huge price attached, and am utterly powerless to do anything about it.

I feel the same way about dd. Also, I teach development studies and feel depressed that my subject may evolve into just cleaning up after the Americans and British in various parts of the world (post-conflict reconstruction is the polite term).