Why is the Daily Mail so hated on here?

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What does it do that is so wrong?

I read the Independent (though not the Independant) and will attempt to read the DM next week Monday to Friday when I'm at work - where there is a copy in the kitchen. I have tried before but have never found anything readable in it and the sudoko is too easy.

I think I mostly hate the DM because it pretends to like women and be for them then it just trashes, scares and trivialises them.
The Sun is more honest about how it views women, there is no pretence. The politics coverage in the Sun is actually not that bad and often ahead of the game.
I used to read them all everyday for work.

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Only ever bought it once when they gave away the Prince CD for free.
The paper is shite, "news" paper being rather a loose term.
Important news of the day overlooked for stuff like what bag Geri Halliwell has just bought.
And I want to read news stories, not some tosser's own rather unsubstantiated opinion.
The journalistic standard is as low as the Jeremy Kyle show.

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The ink doesn't come off the online DM. Just had a look. Got distracted by these babies!

I am sure one of them is Boris Johnson.

Do people not like the DM because it takes a small story and blows it out of proportion??

ROFL at those babies they're how I imagine all the disapproving mners to look - only cuter

It drives me crazy, too, for the reasons suggested. For the people that absorb the crap, that should know better, then start spouting this racist, ignorant, offensive "the paper said so, so it must be true" rubbish.

We'll usually buy the Guardian, or any of the broadsheets depending on if there's a particular issue we're interested in, DP is in politics so reads them mostly online if they aren't in the house.

The Daily Wail epitomises all that I dislike about my stepmother, and yes I am disappointed if I discover a friend that reads it. I'd rather read nothing.

lisalisa - my parets used to get the DM for that simple reason! The politics didn't seem to bother them.

But the bullshit isn't just exclusive to the Daily Mail, it applys to all papers and magazines.

Dreadful mysogynistic crap.... women are condemned if they work and earn good money because they put off having children until their careers are established (cold hearted careerist bitches) or condemned if they have children young and stay at home to look after them (lazy, work shy, benefits dependent burdens to society the lot of them!) You are damned if you do, damned if you don't. At work we get the full monty of newspapers and I read the Mail just so I know what not to think!! (not that I need to be told what to think, just the Mail runs counter to every bone in my body)

Oh and don't get me started on the obssession they have with immigration! All the wrongs of the world would be solved if we shut our borders to every single person... apparently.

i take it all back the daily mail is fabulous - those baby pictures have really changed my world view.

There must be women who work on the Mail though. It surely can't all be misogynist. Or do they just put up with it to keep their jobs?

because it is right wing mysoginist crap purporting to be a serious newspaper and my pils read it

is there an echo in here?

Dh had a female friend who worked on the Mail a few years ago. She left because she couldn't stand the "permanent sense of outrage" as she put it.

Doesn't Ben Goldacre say something along the lines of that the Mail justifies its existence by trying to categorise every substance known to man in either "stuff that causes cancer" or "stuff that cures cancer".

The science in there just makes me weep and that's before I even get to the politics...

just like to say that none of those babies are my ds!!

Funny that it never occurred to me to tel the DM at the time with my news story of a baby with lots of hair...

Probably all been said but

Small minded
Reactionary
Exaggerated
Moral Panic whipping up frenzy rag
put them in a field and throw away the key rag

Its not just a bad newspaper, it is responsible for lots of what is going wrong with society at the mo I fear.

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Unquietdad - don't quote me on this, but I'm fairly sure when you work on a paper you have to work within their style, so even if you are a woman, you have to write this rubbish. A friend of a friend works there (female) I should ask her if she actually likes doing all those articles about how we're all creating a fertility timebomb etc etc etc boring or if she actually finds them interesting.

The DM's morals are questionable. I do hate snobbery (about papers) though. What makes someone think they are any better than someone else just because of the paper they read. We're all conformists in one way or another but you don't have to brandish the paper you choose to read as some kind of badge of superiority.

I read all sorts and I do sometimes read the DM online and feel impelled to post a comment. It is usually in retort to someone else's offensive comment on a story. Why do I do this? Just to try and provide a bit of balance, I suppose. (I think someone else gave the reason of blood pressure workout - good one.) Sadly, although my comment is always to the point and reasoned, they often decline to publish it.