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Why is the Daily Mail so hated on here?

276 replies

NAB3 · 11/09/2007 13:09

What does it do that is so wrong?

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Pruners · 11/09/2007 14:30

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WendyWeber · 11/09/2007 14:31

PLEASE CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME WITH THIS????

niceglasses · 11/09/2007 14:32

Trouble is I hardly do read a paper anymore. I buy it every other day as realised it was wasting money, but even then don't often get a good read of it. Maybe on Sunday. So I don't know if I do buy one as a badge.

My sister gets DM so occ flick through. Sorry, it really is tripe of the highest order.

MrsMar · 11/09/2007 14:32

I totally agree kualalump. as much as I dislike the Mail, I do read it, its very important to read as wide a range of opinions as possible, even if it means reading the 10 millionth diana story in the Express, or how we're all going to hell in a handcart in the Mail. Still can't bring myself to like it though. I listen to Nick Ferrari on LBC in the mornings for the same reason, he totally makes my blood boil and wakes me up in the morning good and proper. The Today programme just can't get me angry enough to get out of bed

UnquietDad · 11/09/2007 14:35

The Internet has surely made reader participation and response more democratic. The letters editor can pick and choose which letters get published, but anyone can post a comment to an article. So there is more opportunity to criticise the DM within its own "pages" than there used to be.

Overrun · 11/09/2007 14:36

Can't stand it myself, I think the health sections are awful. Real scaremongering done on a much larger more hysterical scale than most other papers.
If I ever glance at my Mums (unfortunately she gets it, and I have given up arguing about it) I end up feeling scared s*&^%less that I am going to die of such and such disease. Before my rational side kicks in and I think its only the DM, its all rubbish
And don't even get me started about all the other things I loathe about it........

Kevlarhead · 11/09/2007 14:37

"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"."

From Uncyclopedia

The Daily Hypochondriac

At least once a week the Daily Mail likes to take some time off sticking the boot into dark-skinned foreigners to report on a health fad or some medical feelgood/scare stories they pulled out of their arse. The fact that these stories frequently contradict the ones they published last week is entirely besides the point. Clinical studies have shown that none of their readers' attention spans last that long.

Things which cure/prevent cancer

Cloudy apple juice, tea, spicy food, a Mediterranean diet, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, E-coli, apples, peanuts, soya, your blood cells, evening primrose oil, red wine, breast milk (provided it's never consumed in public), white bread (see below), a fibre-rich diet, watercress, coffee, chocolate and reading the Daily Mail.

Things which cause cancer

Being tall at 14, being fat, cooking oil, IVF, being female, fizzy drinks, being poor (which of course is a good thing), being sexually active before 28, crisps, chips, not having children before 27, biscuits, breakfast cereals, remaining sexually active after 29, baby food, drugs, having children before 26, WiFi (whatever that is), being male, voting Labour, white bread (see above), water, Mobile phone masts situated near schools (Masts elsewhere are fine, as are the phones themselves) breast milk (when consumed in public), driving when you're under 24, and immigrants.

Overrun · 11/09/2007 14:39

Hear hear for Ben and Goldacre and Kevlarhead. I didn't say it better myself

DaDaDa · 11/09/2007 14:58

"Daily Mail baiting is a popular and predictable MN habit. I doubt whether its detractors have ever read it"

We get almost all the papers at work and I skim them all. I hate the Daily Mail although I do find a lot of it entertaining in it's outraged, little Englander, misogynistic predictability. In fact it's often the first paper I pick up, which I know is perverse (equivalent to reaching for chocolate rather than a banana I suppose.)

I enjoy it as fiction, but the thought that it genuinely represents people's views is terrifying.

ShinyHappySchmooo · 11/09/2007 14:59

I buy the Mail every saturday so I can read Deborah Ross. Doesn't anyone else?? She has very Mner type mad humour.. she makes me PMSL

Mommalove · 11/09/2007 15:00

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EffiePerine · 11/09/2007 15:00

Becasue it is incredibly misogynistic. As is the Times in a different way IMO. The Graudiad is ridiculously dull atm (the ethical living bits make me want to decapitate the cat) so that leaves the Torygraph on occasion. And Private Eye.

Kevlarhead · 11/09/2007 15:01

"In fact it's often the first paper I pick up, which I know is perverse"

I know. I read the their website every day, although I'm not sure why. It might be a desire to know the enemy, although it's more likely a latent masochistic streak coming out.

WendyWeber · 11/09/2007 15:01

ROFL at these cancer causers

being sexually active before 28
not having children before 27
remaining sexually active after 29
having children before 26

Can someone do a Venn diagram of those for me?

Pruners · 11/09/2007 15:03

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Eliza2 · 11/09/2007 15:03

I read all the newspapers and I don't think the Mail is more annoying than, say, some of the dotty columnists in The Independent. Or some of the Murdoch-dummed-down-sillinesses of the Sunday Times's Style section.

It's fashionable to say The Daily Mail is right wing. What's wrong with reading a right-wing newspaper if you're right wing? Why is that worse than reading The Mirror if you're left wing?

ShinyHappySchmooo · 11/09/2007 15:04

I can't say I haven't picked up a broadsheet in years because I sometimes need to buy one for my coursework.

However, I can't actually afford a daily paper, much less a broadsheet, so if it wasn't for studying purposes I probably wouldn't have.

This has nothing to do with my intelligence.

UnquietDad · 11/09/2007 15:05

DM-bashing is easy because it's a soft target. I'd like to see a few more people coming out and admitting that vast swathes of the Grauniad are, in fact, poncy shite.

Any paper which can have an entire section of its Saturday magazine called "Space" deserves to be smacked round the head several times with a rolled-up tabloid.

And then we have all those worthy articles about people living in yurts and recycling their bodily waste, next door to lavish features about couples called Cressida and Ivo who have knocked together eight Islington terraces to create a "space" encased in chrome, and are pictured posing in designer jeans beside a minimalist metal table with one jotoba-wood bowl on it.

Pruners · 11/09/2007 15:06

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Pruners · 11/09/2007 15:07

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Kevlarhead · 11/09/2007 15:10

"ROFL at these cancer causers"

I know... Uncyclopedia's a kind of comedic wikipedia, so the quality of what you get can vary...

I thought it was funnier when it just had

being sexually active before 28
remaining sexually active after 29

That's your 12 months of Daily Mail mandated impregnation time; after that you'll just have to substitute golf and bitterness in place of sex...

Pruners · 11/09/2007 15:13

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RubberDuck · 11/09/2007 15:13

"after that you'll just have to substitute golf and bitterness in place of sex" and presumably become a daily mail health journo? Would explain a hell of a lot of their articles...

shreddies · 11/09/2007 15:13

I loathe the Mail, my lovely elderly PILs, who are kindness itself buy it and believe everything in it, not because they are vile racists, but just because it doesn't occur to them to disbelieve what papers say.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 11/09/2007 15:19

It's an easy target because it makes itself one. IMO.

lisalisa lol! Glad you didnt...are you really curious as to the origins of my name though? Thought it was 'obvious'?

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