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The Daily Mail

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Ready · 30/12/2006 17:56

Does anyone actually read the Daily Mail???

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JoolsToo · 30/12/2006 19:32

what are the figures for the broadsheets foxy?

turquoise · 30/12/2006 19:35

It is truly loathesome. I used to occasionally buy the sunday one for the magazine but have never soiled myself with it since its front page after Ronnie Barker died. All the others had lovely headlines, shots of his glasses etc and "Goodbye from him", nice obituaries etc - the DM had a headline referring to the alleged paedophile son and the copy was all about the son, and how Ronnie Barker had 'died of a broken heart' about it. Vile.

foxinsocks · 30/12/2006 19:35

here you are

ABC circulation for last month

telegraph does better than I thought (and the times worse)

turquoise · 30/12/2006 19:36

Sorry - 'soiled myself' sounds dead pompous! Blame the wine and typing in a hurry.

foxinsocks · 30/12/2006 19:36

arrgh it won't link to it

times 653780
daily telegraph 901238

foxinsocks · 30/12/2006 19:37

guardian 382393
indie 253737

JoolsToo · 30/12/2006 19:38

velly interlesting!

JoolsToo · 30/12/2006 19:38

lol at the Guardian and they're all mumsnetters - pmsl!!!

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Ready · 30/12/2006 19:41

Turquoise - How awful. I am not surprised, just saddened that a newspaper can be so nasty.

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foxinsocks · 30/12/2006 19:43

yes, I thought that was amusing!

rhubarbcat · 30/12/2006 20:00

I hold my hands up - yes I read it.

However I skim through all the "political stuff", and am certainly not racist, homophobic, anti-ayslum seekers, right wing, etc.

I do enjoy the gossip type pages, not just the celeb gossip but the "vicar leaves wife for married man next door" stuff. And also like the femail stuff - style, beauty, health stuff.

So what paper is better??? I do consider myself an intelligent person and think I probably should read something a bit more intellectual....

Pablothelittleredfox · 30/12/2006 20:01

Oh FGS, not this old chestnut.

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Ready · 30/12/2006 20:06

rhubarbcat, the Times has T2 supplement which has beauty and fashion. Although I am not saying the Times is 'better' than any other paper - just the paper I choose.

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rhubarbcat · 30/12/2006 20:08

I do read The Times at work. Never seen the T2 section though so I imagine the blokes who buy it must have slung it in the bin by the time I pick it up.

foxinsocks · 30/12/2006 20:09

lol - keep buying it if you want rhubarb.

As this has come up, I wanted to point out this article . It may seem very dull at the start, but you'll see at the end the number of times certain papers have got hold of people's personal details illegally! The Mail is a prime culprit!

rhubarbcat · 30/12/2006 20:13

My mum reads the Telegraph, but has the most Daily Mail mentality of any person I know. Its always put me off the Telegraph.

southeastastra · 30/12/2006 20:14

we used to get it and my mil read it, her comments were that there was alot to read and she agreed with alot of it. it can keep her quiet for 2 hours which is great for me also like i said before what else is there for her to read?

in all honesty i never really questioned news reporting before mn

foxinsocks · 30/12/2006 20:19

there's a new trend amongst younger people to pick and choose their newspaper rather than doing what our parents did (in the main) and buying the same newspaper every day.

It's quite refreshing to get a different perspective (by buying different papers). There are still certain columnists I like though. I used to LOVE Matthew Norman in the Standard and I, for one, didn't feel like buying it when he stopped writing for it.

SmileysPeople · 30/12/2006 20:22

I read it. After berating my mother for buying it and supporting it's deeply unpleasant prejudices.
I go striaght to the fashion and celeb gossip pages though. Again obviously so I can, after reading it, sneer that intellectigent people would not be interested in the lifes of these non acheivers.

I am also the person who wrinkles her nose at the like of Heat, but whose first stop in the supermarket is to the magazine shelves to peruse the titles skim read any articles that catch my eye, and then replae OK with a a disapproving shake of my head and roll of my eyes.

harktheheraldfoxessing · 30/12/2006 20:22

My Mum started reading the Mail a few years ago when she moved to Essex (seriously!). I have noticed that she increasingly talks complete tripe, as she relys on the DM's small minded xenophobic version of the world. It never seems to occur to her that newspapers all have political affiliations. I prefer the Sun to the DM - at least its honest about being full of trash, whereas the DM masquerades as a "proper" newspaper but in fact is just full of myth and predjudices.

paulaplumpbottom · 30/12/2006 20:58

I like the Telegraph and the Times.

JoolsToo · 30/12/2006 22:39

there's a lot of 'oh, my mum reads it' on this thread

you're not fooling anyone ....

Pruni · 30/12/2006 22:46

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mummytosteven · 30/12/2006 22:49

occasionally. I can still hopefully use some critical faculties and recognise the editorial biases!

lazyanna · 30/12/2006 22:51

I like it. It's a very old paper, and it is a bot Right Wing, but I can't be doing with the broadsheets, too self important.

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