The Daily Mail

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Does anyone actually read the Daily Mail???

My mum does. I say to her why are reading this drivel. She says she jsut gets it for the crosswords [hmmm] But she does come out with their pathetic bigotted arguments quite a lot!

That's

My mum does too. Shes awfully racist and some of the things she comes out with....but she didnt used to be, I dont think, this is daily mail inspired.
She says its for the sudoko...it must be written between the lines in code...defend us by saying the quizzes are good!

i do on a saturday. so?

Occasionally I do.

I like a good larf.

But then I find shrieking hysteria from the Hyacinth Buckets of this world right amusing, like.

My dad does, and is not generally racist, homophobic, anti-women etc etc.

He's read it forever, certainly since I was a kid. Not sure whether it's changed over the years, but he's stuck with it out of habit.

One of my friends gets it too - she says it's for the horoscopes

my mil reads it it gives her something to moan about i do find there is a lack of interesting papers for the older generation, they have hours to read one and want something more than the mirror etc. she has looked at the guardian and calls it 'dry' haha

I do, every day.

Know Thine Enemy, I say.

I do when I go to my parents. I find it amusing as it really is a pile of alarmist shite.

The fact that people believe what's written there and agree with it worries me though.

but I love fiction. I read the local paper for real news.
Think people are too snobby about what people read.

a very close friend of mine writes in it. we tend not to talk about it...

LOL, hatwoman, an old school friend of mine writes for it too. Wonder if it's the same person?

The Daily Mail is a bit like that woman on Catherine Tate who screams in shock and horror at crisps being crunched and phones ringing.

"It's like Beirut in here."

my sister does

can't convince her not to

she thinks I'm being a london lefty snob .. and making out she's provincial

she's probably right .. I am

2shoes... I was just curious!!!

I should have perhaps entitled my thread "does anyone actually believe the nonsense in the DailyMail?"

An old colleague of mine reads the Mail and would frequently come out with a bigotted diatribe!

i do. i read lots of papers. reading does not equal believing, unless you are a moron! i think it is beneficial to read a variety of viewpoints on any given topic. i thing it is daft to only read a paper that is likely to 'think' like you, iyswim! be challenged! see the other pov.

it is very interesting to read the same story in 2 or 3 papers and just how differently it is presented. nobody is without bias. use a variety of information when you form your own view, not mindlessly regurgitate what one reporter thinks.

did you know a Daily Mail journalist got an MBE

so what do you read then?

( oh and the mail got it wrong today. said that fatboy slims concert was free- is not and that 60,000 were going it's 20.000)

i read the mail at MIL, dh likes the sun, my dad reads the mirror.

I read The Times every day and The Guardian on occasion.

Like I said, I was just curious. It's nothing to do with snobbery at all. I was not trying to start an argument. Another thread was started with a link to a DailyMail article (full of nonsense speculation on immigration) and it got me wondering how many people actually read it.

Mytwocupsofkindness - I did actually say I could/should have posed the question as "does anyone actually believe..."

you did ready, you did! i didnt see it till i'd refreshed after i'd posted!

oh, and to answer the revised question

Hell No!!

i like reading it. and no I don't believe it any more than I believe heat or the crap magazines I enjoy. It is escapism same as reading a fiction book.
so what makes newspapers like the times any better(just being nosy)

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