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101 Reasons to Hate the Daily Mail

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 06/08/2009 19:08

  1. Because they can't report a fact without putting a slant on it
  1. Because they deliberately try to make everything more frightening than it is

Come on you know you want to

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scottishmummy · 06/08/2009 21:18

no one starts a thread i don't read guardian but...and then gives an executive summary of its comments and leader articles

despite not reading it,of course

random · 06/08/2009 21:29

I only read the Metro ...honest

IFishWife · 06/08/2009 21:40

You simply cannot beat the Ham and High....it's not as if anywhere else matters now is it?

scottishmummy · 06/08/2009 21:42

ham and high is that pig farming and hills?

IFishWife · 06/08/2009 21:46

Tut Tut SM.

Not that you'd have reason to be in the know, what with you being SCOTTISH and a MUMMY.

Tis the local rag for North Londoners with nice postcodes...and the personal ads are so witty and amusing...I sometimes actually clip and stick them in my Smythson.

scottishmummy · 06/08/2009 21:48

given you are a FISH and WIFE what care you of pigs on hills

IFishWife · 06/08/2009 21:53

I care because others care, and it doesn't do to be careless where others very much care to tread.

And how else would I know what my house is still worth whilst the rest of the country drowns itself in an ever-thinning property gruel?

abraid · 06/08/2009 21:57

Talking of the Guardian, when are they going to stop those craft articles? Crotchet your own coil, knit your own swine flu mask, that kind of stuff.

scottishmummy · 06/08/2009 21:58

gosh wouldn't want any hams on the hill to suffer depreciation

OrmIrian · 06/08/2009 22:01

Surely we don't need to actually know any facts about the DM in order to slag it off? If it is essential to know facts to express an opinion the DM would have nowt to print.

And when it comes to wanting salacious shock horror titillation I'd rather read something that has no pretensions to being anything other than a tatty old rag. Such as the Sun. DM likes to think it's a cut above.

MorrisZapp · 06/08/2009 22:02

I read the DM from cover to cover once when I was on holiday and the local guy had sold out of proper newspapers.

I was aghast, depsite already knowing pretty much what their agenda was. This was years ago - they had a two page spread 'outing' Heather Mills as a former topless model (complete with pics, so we can all see the nasty slutty behaviour) and comment from the feature writer that 'Sir Paul will no doubt be appalled to hear this news'.

Why of course, the ex Beatle has never seen a pair of tits in his life.

I spat feathers for the rest of the holiday although one thing I will say is that they do have quite absorbing features about history, interesting people from the past etc.

As for 'if you don't like it don't buy it', that is the lamest argument ever. Yes, we could all just ignore all the films, telly, books, newspapers etc that don't appeal to us but as humans we are naturally curious and critical. What a banal life it would be if we couldn't actively debate stuff that we don't like.

Christ, why have MN at all, if there's anything you don't like or don't agree with then just ignore it - well, you do that if you like but I prefer to 'question everything', like the wee boy in that advert!

IFishWife · 06/08/2009 22:02

Quite so.

What would the rest of the world aspire to?

I always knew were right to buy in '98.

DH said the price was high but I stuck his balls to the wall and said no house, no spanking.

...and he does so like a good spank.

scottishmummy · 06/08/2009 22:05

oh i see one can assign an opinion without facts

hell,yes why bother letting tiddley wee things like facts get in the way of indignation and bombastic opinion about something you have no factual knowledge of

so are these opinions anecdotally gleened and
second hand

Mintyy · 06/08/2009 22:07

Yes, Nancy, glad to see the Stephen Lawrence killers front page got a mention. I admired that.

But I'm sorry to be boring/predictable but I really dislike the Daily Mail. I read it (once or twice a year, my stepmother buys it) but I wouldn't choose to buy it for myself. This has fuck all to do with my membership of Mumsnet as I came to this conclusion a long time ago all on my little ownsome.

scottishmummy · 06/08/2009 22:08

now would nuts to wall add to the N6 bonhomie or detract?

i do believe a good spanking is very hams on the hill

Nancy66 · 06/08/2009 22:09

MorrisZapp - I doubt they were outing her for being a topless model when it was already very well know this is what she had done before her accident and the topless modelling pictures had been widely seen.

Far more likely they were outing her for being aporn star in the those dodgy pictures that she tried to claimed were part of an educational manual.

scottishmummy · 06/08/2009 22:11

amazing the amount of posters who read DM once or twice,yet the contents are so emblazoned that they recall so vividly

Mintyy · 06/08/2009 22:15

I'll never forget seeing the DM front page with names/images of the Stephen Lawrence killers. It was almost shocking. I live nearby, it was a local story, it still upsets every time I think about it.

MorrisZapp · 06/08/2009 22:17

If the contents are racist, sexist, homophobic etc then they are easy to remember.

Also, I used to contribute regularly to another news forum where hardly a day went by without some ludicrous story being linked as 'truth' - you know, christmas has been banned, yobs given free holiday etc etc.

These almost always came from DM. For as long as it is widely sold and poeple read, beleive and repeat their opinions, it is all our business.

I don't like the Harry Potter books but I have no opinion on the people who do buy them and like them - that's a matter of taste. But promoting sexism, racism etc is not a matter of taste, it is wrong.

Nancy66 · 06/08/2009 22:18

I think the DM has very questionable politics, writes some dodgy features and has a bizarre attitude towards women - considering its readership is pretty much exclusively female...BUT they have money and clout and the Stephen Lawrence incident was an occasion in which they used it well.

LoveaSugarRush · 06/08/2009 22:19

amazing the amount of posters whos mil/mother/friend/ buy the daily mail....only reason they've ever read it of course...

IFishWife · 06/08/2009 22:19

I think we positively invented it SM.

Balls to the wall...depends very much on the time of day, and the quality of the gentleman's arse.

I never could resist a pert buttocked banker in a pair of crisp, starched boxers...especially after midnight behind Patisserie Paul...

mollyroger · 06/08/2009 22:21

Why would i have an opinion of something i'd never read?
I'd not be entitled to an opinion unless I had some knowledge.

scottishmummy · 06/08/2009 22:22

orthodoxy is never admit DM reading but have an encyclopaedic knowledge of its contents

i see people read DM,to monitor its bilious content.oh how convenient

to argue the hoi poloi are subliminally influenced by DM yet the MN readers aren't= oh no siree

MorrisZapp · 06/08/2009 22:24

Guys, it's free online. Clickety click.

I quite often look on there at showbiz stories etc and end up with boiling blood when the other stories sidetrack me.

And yes, they aren't all bad. I admired their plastic bag campaign and they have highlighted all sorts of health issues to.

Not trying to be arsey but surely intelligent, informed adults have a pretty frim grasp of the media in their country and what all the different factions represent? I know what the Telegraph, the Sun etc are like too and I despise them (for different reasons).

I don't have to buy and pay for them - newspapers are part of life and most reasonably educated people will have a basic knowlege of all of them.