The Daily Mail

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Does anyone actually read the Daily Mail???

She does.
But I think you missed my blatant hypocritical stance...

Obviously I'd NEVER BUY it!!

i read the sun...what i mean is i look at the pretty pictures as i vcant actually read.

I used to read the Daily Mail, but, as Pruni said, I found myself constructing arguments against the article within the first paragraph.

I have started to read the Times after a thread on here the other week.

I also agree with what MTPW said. Its good to get alternative viewpoints on some things.

I don't actually buy/read any newspaper. Those of you who do buy them, do you actually get time to read them in any depth? Why not save a tree (and the toxic sludge created by the ink when recycled) and just watch the news on TV/have a look on-line instead?

Ballbaby - I tend to look online at work as I don't get time either, but DH buys the Evening Standard, which is very similar to the Mail as they are jointly owned and often have the same articles.

If our Mum's buy the Mail, perhaps its a generational thing then?

...I'm sure that when we all become Grumpy Old Women, we'll agree with more of what the Daily Mail is peddling .

Oh I don't know I'm already a grumpy old woman at 34!

I have always read teh mail but like to think I am intelligent enough to recognise all teh biases/antiwomen articles whenI read them. sometimes trying to recognise the biases/ emotive langauge etc is teh only intellectual stimulation i get all day!
no way will i read any red top - I like to think there is seomthing passing for news in teh mail & whilst I like celeb gossip I can't read a paper that thinks teh x-factor is najor news. Neither canI be doing witht eh express' obsession with Diana. Don't like teh guardian (think I must have right wing & conservative tendancises) telegraph too large & Times too self important. so teh mail it is.......

Actually the Mail does have some good articles on health and money in it. I always respected their stance on MMR too and still do...

Its their rants against immigrants which annoy me though, and the constant "research", "proving" that women should stay in the kitchen, which both wind me up no end!

my MIL read it and unfortunately believes every word in it, especially the obligatory daily health scare stories.
my mother read it until she left the UK but by the end we'd convinced her not to believe everything in it and I think she was more or less getting it for the puzzles...
I actually know a political correspondant for the Daily Mail. She is v.articulate and clued up, find it very hard to reconcile her in person with what is in the paper.

MIL reads it FFS

ballbaby - I read my newspaper everyday.

bodenbetty - I disagree that The Times is too self important (but then I would, wouldn't I?!) - I think The Mail thinks of itself as a serious newspaper actually, and as such is far too self important. I personally think it is worse than a red top -at least red tops are not taken seriously for news - as you say they treat xfactor as major news, which no one takes seriously - The Mail on the other hand aspires to being about serious journalism!

As some one who grew up in Essex (and vows never to go back) I can assure your that the DM is very popular there.
When I go visit my mum and my brothers (fortunately short visits) I have to bite my tongue to keep the peace due to the utter prejudicial tripes about the coloureds the homos and the asylum seekers that I have to put up with. It's not worth the hassle of trying to argue with them because it is ends up spoiling the visits. A couple of years ago I ended up getting up fromthe table packing my bags and walking out because I was so angry with the rascist sh*t my brothers were coming out with. I ended up not speaking to my mum for several months because I couldn't believe she took their side.
She doesn't actually read the mail but she might as well.
I'm probably going to get a backlash for being snobby to my family but I personally try to live my life by a code of tolerance towards all people regardless of colour, race or creed.

My Mum said that whenever she got into a taxi in Essex the Taxi driver was invariably from Dagenham and would say something like "I moved outta London to get away from all the coloureds" . My Mum would either say something like "ooh, have you always been a racist?" or just bite her tongue.

But lets not get into stereotypes about Essex, eh?