"The Daily Mail largely drives the broadcasting and political agenda in this country" - does it?

[croftscrumpty]

Surely this is just the Daily Mail's own propaganda?

I know bringing up kids has turned my brains to mush, but I can't believe this has become the case while my back was turned.

H-e-e-e-e-l-l-l-p...

I find the Daily Mail website really very good - I read the Guardian and the DM online every day and they're an interesting complement to each other. Both of them are equally selective in what they carry and the DM seems to run stories you don't find anywhere else. Both papers also do good 'background' stories.

Of course the DM are influential. But most of us women would surely agree that their influence is at best misguided and at worst incredibly damaging?

Why don't we embrace NUTS, FHM, TAB, BNP, UKIP and oligarchs - they are all influential as well.

Nuts and FHM are hardly influential in the same way.
they might influence a bloke to decide he likes bit tits but they're not going to direct government policy or get the BBC to suspend presenters and and change programming format.

op; just read the post by atlantis, that's your answer.

No it doesn?t drive the political agenda but of course it influences it, as do the other papers.

The Today programme is v. influential but it picks up lots of its lead stories from the lead of the newspapers, so there's a chicken and egg aspect of it all.