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Daily Mail utter s**t

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roseability · 06/04/2008 21:07

Just been flicking through the threads. The Daily Mail is a racist, sexist and unintellectual piece of s**t. The issue is not whether Miss England is too fat or not, but that a paper would report on such insignificant twoddle when there are far more interesting things happening in the world and class themselves within the realms of journalism. Rant over

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Desiderata · 08/04/2008 10:59

Yeah, girls. Right on!

meemar · 08/04/2008 11:08

desiderata - do you work for DM? You always tend to fight it's corner so strongly on these threads.

Monkeybird · 08/04/2008 11:13

Oh Desi, if something's worth saying, it's worth repeating many times, surely?

Desiderata · 08/04/2008 11:31

lol, meemar!

It's just so ... predictable, is all.

No1ErmaBombeckfan · 08/04/2008 11:39

Sorry - didn't know predictability was another MN crime...

Where exactly does it fit in the 7 rings of MN shame??

Greyriverside · 08/04/2008 12:06

It's the people who trust them (or any paper) who worry me.
Newspapers are not there to inform, but to make a profit.
Butchers are not there to supply you with meat, but to make a profit.
Plumbers... well you get the idea

OrmIrian · 08/04/2008 12:10

It's one of the things that makes me a little about people that I like. When I find they read it I mean. And beleive it. In fact with friends I now avoid the topic of religion, politics and newspapers. It's just safer that way.

ishouldbeironing · 08/04/2008 12:13

I have a friend who I love dearly who quotes the DM as if it is bible.
She will phone me up to tell me about some story and I am sooo glad that she cant seem my face as our friendship would be over

namechangeshame · 08/04/2008 12:20

...and of course you have to love the history of the DM ownership as well...

CountessDracula · 08/04/2008 12:24

I seriously worry that there are people out there who read the DM and agree with it and quote it to others.

If I see someone reading it on a train I automatically think "thicko" tbh

NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 13:35

I read it, if I find it somewhere. Ditto any other red top - as long as it's windfall, it's fine.

OrmIrian · 08/04/2008 13:55

I had a 'windfall' look at OK in the hairdressers on Saturday. Hideous. I mean totally horrible. I wanted to wash my hands afterwards. May have been an overreaction of course Alternative was various Motorsports magazines which I actually found preferable.

CountessDracula · 08/04/2008 14:45

God
I would rather read "River-widening Weekly" or "What Buttplug?" than the DM

NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 19:55

You're saying there isn't a strange thrill in seeing what new horror they're up to?

Kevlarhead · 08/04/2008 19:57

Genuine LOL @ "What Buttplug?"

If threads like this keep on going long enough, we'll get the attention of the DM.

"Mumsnet: the Single Mother's Jihadi Training Camp Corrupting YOUR CHILDREN!"

Sound about right?

Tutter · 08/04/2008 19:57

cd

my ILs

seriously, it saddens me

all the time it's "they say..."

e.g. "they say organic isn't any better for you"

they believe everythin they read in it, becasue it represents them and people like them

Desiderata · 08/04/2008 20:03

There's no proof that organic is better for you, actually.

Quite a few scientists would legitimately argue that point!

Tutter · 08/04/2008 20:04

alright alright,. maybe bad example

was tryin to avoid obvious immigration issues

Quattrocento · 08/04/2008 20:04

We need a Daily Mail section on MN - after all there are more Daily Mail readers on here than chicken keepers.

Where's Desi? Surely she must be on this thread.

Kevlarhead · 08/04/2008 20:05

"Mumsnet: A den of thieving, benefit-scrounging parents congregates, linked througfh the pornography-infested reaches of 'the web'. Their mission? To destroy the British way of life. Not content with the character assasination of well-known and inspirational child rearing gurus, they host discussions between parasitic 'mothers' (spawning children to claim benefits) and a few 'fathers' (a vile collection of perverts and paedophiles) intent on subverting the nation's children through the medium of gossip, chat and conversation."

I predict this sort of stuff for Tuesday next week; page four, column 1.

MadameCh0let · 08/04/2008 20:05

A lot of people read it but know it's sh1te. I am one of them.

tbh I like reading Daisy Dooley does divorce and The Health section on the Tuesday and what moisturer and what is the new black....

If The Times could throw in a section of the above, I would abandon the DM.

But I swear to God I never even read or notice the headline. It's never news. It's not something that happened yesterday. it's just a whinge.

Plus of course, the Irish version is slightly different. In fact, the IDM has gone after Bertie like a rat up a drainpipe and none of the other papers dared.

Quattrocento · 08/04/2008 20:05

Ah x-post

Right now Desi - tell us the good points of the Daily Mail

fairylights · 08/04/2008 20:06

that statistic about the combined readership of the "high brow" papers makes me despair..
what hope is there for our nation?!
my dad buys the DM sometimes "to do the crossword" even though he is a liberal minded, gentle and kind man. But honestly, i can tell when he has been reading it, he starts looking all doom-monger-ish and gets really gloomy, its not good for him. I think i might have to crack down on that behaviour once and for all..

MadameCh0let · 08/04/2008 20:09

Ps I am strongly in favour of genetic research, I am a single mother on benefits and I am not even a 'tory'. the few times I vote when I was in Britain, I voted labour.... So it IS possible to just read a paper. It doesn't mean you are defined by that!

I believe in freedom of speach and NO censorship, but I also kind of believe that you should be allowed to read something that is utter bollox without people labelling you as a follower, moonie style of said utter bollox!

MadameCh0let · 08/04/2008 20:12

Countess Dracula, there are also people reading the DM who think, yeah, that was in the lancet 4 yrs ago. Not everybody who reads it is thick. I'm not thick.

I'm NOT defending the paper itself. I'm making the point that in fact it is quite 'Dailymailesque' to pidgeon-hole anybody you might see reading the Daily Mail; which is the cheapest paper you can buy that doesn't have TITS in it.