Why do people read the Daily Mail

[TwigTwoolett]

why oh why oh why?

Great call!!!!!

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Ashamed to admit it but I buy it on the weekend cos it has YOU magazine which is great for fashion and beauty stuff. Don't bother with the rest of the paper. I am most certainly not right wing.

What about the Daily Express though?

All their front pages are either "House prices rising" or "Too many immigrants" in some form or other.
Thier finest day was a front page saying in bold letters "Asylum seekers driving down house prices" ....

How do you confuse a Daily Mail reader?

Tell them illegal immigrants are eating single mothers...

I agree with the 'know thine enemy' bit. I do read it every day, especially if my blood pressure is a bit low What I don't get is why it's read by so many women when it is so virulently anti-female.

I suppose really it is not so much the guardian, as my PILs, technically.

Today's guardian had a fab banana cake recipe and an analysis of Neighbours. Very welcome.

the daily express spends its life wanting to be the daily mail (and when it can't do that, it bungs a Princess Diana story on the front)

DS2 does a paper round and he mentioned this week that the Express hasn't had Diana on the front page for at least 2 weeks (I wasn't aware he was monitoring it or even that he noticed )

Anyway it must have been feeling satisfactorily Mailish for a while now. It is another loathsome paper, agreed (but I do like the puzzles they have for a bit of mindless time-wasting)

no dirty fingerprints, daily mail?

My DH works for them (in the distribution contractors only may I add. he gets free Daily mail, Western Daily Press (aka the Hunters Chronicle), or The Times .

Only The Times gets through this door. No Times, no paper. That and I buy The Independent when I have time.

It's a dreadful, dreadful rag. MIL and PIL believe everything they read in it.

because they're
ignorant/slumming it/semi-literate or all 3??

katierocket - was going to type the exact same thing

Intrigued... what do you all read?

I tend to pick up whichever has the most interesting headline (I refuse to touch the express though - the last 3 times it had me spitting nails, so DH has banned me )

Gosh, once again a beautiful example of blatant ignorance, intolerance and wild stereotyping from those of you who are supposed to be 'all accepting', super tolerant liberals. Ha. You just show yourselves up every time.

i flit from grauniad to times or indie. Dont get daily tho as no time to read (unless i gave up mning)

i think it's funny.

i watch hoob news each morning

and read bits (the mags, mostly) of the sunday times

that's it

I get the Times coz it's free

Independent maybe on a Sunday

most of the time I watch the news

Even my liberal ness doesn't stretcha s far as The Mail, albeit, as somebody said, as a comedy paper.

I mean typical headline:
X hundred thopusand illegal immigrants sneaking into UK

1. How do you know? They're all hiding, accorsing to you

2. If you do know, shouldn't you be giving their details to the Home Office instead?

"Gosh, once again a beautiful example of blatant ignorance, intolerance and wild stereotyping from those of you who are supposed to be 'all accepting', super tolerant liberals. Ha. You just show yourselves up every time."

Why? Stereotyping who? IMO the Mail is shite and my MIL and PIL do believe every word they read in it. Don't get your point Gobbledispook
Ignorant of what?
intolerant of what? - the paper, well yes, it's rubbish

If we?re talking regular readers (rather than cultural dilettantes who like to sample life on the other side once in a while and who might read the DM in the same spirit as the might ?read? the Sunday Sport ) I think they read it because it confirms them in their beleifs. Comforts them that they are not the only ones who discretely hate immigrants whilst at the same time longing to emigrate themselves. Those who love going to France for the wine the food and the weather whilst feeling a strange discomfort in the presence of foreigners in their own country. Those who believe that the poor, the unemployed and single parents are responsible for all the ills in this world ? apart from those caused by immigrants of course. Who, when presented by the fact that immigrants are working in the NHS, providing cheaper plumbing and building, and generally doing jobs that others might not want, have to revert to the argument that they?re ?taking our jobs?.

And it seems to be an unarguable truth that whenever I find out that someone I generally get on with OK starts spouting nasty bigotry that leaves a bad taste in the mouth I learn that they read the DM. Every time! Hate the bloody thing. Also hate the Sun. Maybe it doesn?t have the same pretensions as the DM but it?s still a foul rag.