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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 20:14

Of course the DM has its good points. If it didn't, no one would buy it.

The DM ranters would have it that everyone who reads it is a total scumbag, which ain't much of a commendation if what you're trying to say by that is that you, by contrast, are a right-on, tolerant, shrewd and balanced individual.

You all sound like loons to me, condemning without question a newspaper, and those who read it.

MadameCh0let · 08/04/2008 20:18

I hear what you're saying Desiderata, and I don't know if I'll be accused of working for the Daily Mail now, maybe the Irish version!???

But I remember when I was living in London, all my Guardian-reading friends used to go on and on and on and on at me about reading the DM. I never used to comment on their papers.

Used to make me laugh when they'd all look at the DM anyway!! And they did!

Like it or not, there's no other paper that has a daily magazine style aimed at women! I'm not going to buy a paper with tits in it, and I'm not going to spend a whole euro on The Times, especially as here in Ireland they leave out the bloody middle section which is the best bit!!

artichokes · 08/04/2008 20:21

They may have a magazine aimed at women but their editorial line is so anti women. Esp successful women. If an article covers a femals politician it is always so catty and nasty. They can't stand successful women. Recently I noticed they even use adjectives like hysterical about cabinet level polticians. Would they say that about a man?

Don't be fooled into thinking that marketting a womens' magazine means that they are supportive of womens' needs.

Desiderata · 08/04/2008 20:28

Yeah ... right

Desiderata · 08/04/2008 20:29

... and if you want to support womens' needs, why not try the WI?

MadameCh0let · 08/04/2008 20:36

Artichokes, I wasn't fooled into thinking that. I SKIP most of the paper.

I am waiting for a paper that suits me to appear on the shelf, believe me.

I have just read the nobserver thread and realised that utter shite though the daily mail is, I would rather pay 70 cents for that shite than over a euro for smug shite.

MadameCh0let · 08/04/2008 20:38

Actually, come to think of it the Irish DM has different columnists, such as Fiona Looney, so I'm not being indoctrinated, nor am I perpetuationg misogyny by buying the paper, so I'm going to bail out of htis convo now.

WideWebWitch · 08/04/2008 20:38

Have to say I do judge DM readers too. I assume they're a bit dim and don't think for themselves. Plus possibly bigoted/xenophobic.

I belong to the Facebook group "the Daily Mail really are a bunch of fking twats".

WideWebWitch · 08/04/2008 20:39

When people on here say they like it it rarely surprises me if I 'know' their views tbh.

WideWebWitch · 08/04/2008 20:43

"By Desiderata on Tue 08-Apr-08 20:14:01
Of course the DM has its good points. If it didn't, no one would buy it."

Er, plenty of people buy things even though they're shit. People buying things doesn't equate to not shit imo.

Desiderata · 08/04/2008 20:57

Finished ranting, WWW?

Quattrocento · 08/04/2008 21:02

Newspapers, like virtually every aspect of our lives, say something about us as people.

I don't like what the Daily Mail says to me about its readership. I just don't feel comfortable there.

It's just so, well, rabid and uncultivated you see?

Prufrock · 08/04/2008 21:04

But www - I read it (well Ok, I read the Sunday Mail, which dh has to get as the personal finance pages are actually quite good, and aimed at the demographic his client base serves). But I do do it in a "oh my god I can't believe the crap they are spouting now" and get quite irate. Am I let off?

Desiderata · 08/04/2008 21:05

Then so be it, Quattro.

And amen to that.

WideWebWitch · 08/04/2008 21:11

Desiderata, erm, posting ones opinion on a DISCUSSION FORUM isn't 'ranting'.

Prufrock, hmm, if you only buy on Sunday and only for finance, maybe. I really wouldn't have had you down for a DM reader so glad to hear you're not really

Desiderata · 08/04/2008 21:12

It is when you post three in a row

WideWebWitch · 08/04/2008 21:12

Gosh, well I didn't know that was the definition.

squeaver · 08/04/2008 21:18

The Daily Mail's over-riding editorial policy - as quoted by Paul Dacre the editor - is that after reading any story in the paper, readers should feel hatred towards someone. Hatred.

And my ILs read it and when they stay with us I even buy it for them

Prufrock · 08/04/2008 21:22

No, no, I don't buy it, dh does (well more specifically his company does). He reads finance and sport, I read Liz Jones (I'm sadly interested in how ridiculous she and her ex can get) and skim the rest getting increasingly angry and occasionally yelling things like "racist homophobic bigots". Then I get another cup of coffee and turn gratefully to my Indy for my first taste of the Sunday news.

WideWebWitch · 08/04/2008 21:23

Liz Jones, now, she appeared to be a perfectly reasonable woman when she edited Marie Clare years ago but then she married fkwit loser and bored us all with it and just disappeared up her own bottom.

WideWebWitch · 08/04/2008 21:24

And as long as you're infuriated by the end of it, well, understandable. My mum buys it and if I ever read it at her house I am frothing at the mouth with indignation and horror 5 minutes in (most of the paper)

Prufrock · 08/04/2008 21:24

Oh well I do that then squeaver - I regularly hate Paul Dacre and his "journalists".

Seriously, those of you who don't read it should try it occasionally. There's nothing like it for re-enforcing your liberal views if you have occasionally found yourself veering towards Cameron.

theUrbanNixie · 08/04/2008 21:26

my mum stopped my dad reading it as he got too angry about stuff and ranted about politics which used to annoy her!

i sometimes read the DM as i have low blood pressure and it stops me from fainting in extreme circumstances!

i think the thing that annoys me about the DM more than anything else is that they're so often blatantly wrong! and yet people just accept what they read in there as "fact"!!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 08/04/2008 21:30

Quite right too.

wotaloadofbigots · 09/04/2008 16:10

This thread shows just what is bad about mumsnet. Nasty bigoted people with a ridiculously high opinion of themselves.
If you don't like a paper don't read it, it's none of your business what other people read and to assume someone is not very intelligent becaue they read a certain paper is just plain judgemental, exactly what you are accusing dm readers of being.
These anti DM threads are such a yawn. It's all about what a wonderful person I am because I hate the DM, well your not wonderful just bigoted.