Is the Daily Mail any worse than the Guardian?

[anotheoldgit]

We frequency see the Daily Mail criticised on Answerbank, especially their reader's comments.

Well according to this link it would appear that there is now also need to criticise the Left's favourite rag, The Guardian.

http://www.guardian.c...ilee-concert-cartoon.

Below is a typical Guardian reader's comment, is this not offensive to the Queen especially when these past few days, the nation has been out in their thousands showing their full support?

/// I don't. Having an MBE is on the same level as being awarded a medal of honor by the Nazis. ///

/// The Royals hand out MBE's ect... as a piece of marketing - it is designed to say "look we are in touch and we support people doing good things, therefore we must be good too" when in fact the royal family are a group of parasitical life destroying fascists who spread misery around the globe. It is trying to appear good by association rather than actually doing good yourself - politicians and parasites like aristocracy are masters of this technique. ///

Your comments please.

[jake-the-peg]

Well tell you what why don't you toddle off and see how many times the Mail has been sucessfully sued for libel, compare to the number of times the Guardian has and then come back and ask again

[Answerprancer]

I inspired you ! Och, ahm that proud !
The main difference between the Guardian (which I don't read btw) and the Daily Bogroll, is that the Guardian doesn't thrive on keeping angry people satified and angry (IMO). It's not just a simple case of 'left' vs 'right'.

[Zeuhl]

What?

Give an opinion on a national newspaper based not on something the paper has produced but on one specially selected comment posted by an unidentified person who has visited their site?

Why would anyone want to do that?

It would seem to be a particularly pointless exercise.

Anyone run out of drying paint to watch?

[Answerprancer]

...that's why I'm here Zeuhl ;-) Now I'm off to watch a kettle boiling !

[anotheoldgit]

Here I go touching sensitive nerves again.

Who was it that said "the truth hurts"?

[Answerprancer]

Well, your nerves ALWAYS seem to be touched ! Too much Daily Bogroll reading I assume ;-)

[sp1814]

Surely a more accurate question would be 'are Daily Mail readers any worse than Guardian readers'?

It's not nearly as clear cut as you may think, because those of whatever political persuasion can read and post to newspaper websites for free.

I would lay money that the demographic that reads the paper versions of both papers is hugely different from those who read online.

You can test this out for yourself. Choose any 'red button' story from the Mail and then order the answers by most popular and then least popular. You'll find there's a goodly selection

[sp1814]

<ahem> of left leaning respondants...who wouldn't necessarily buy the paper.

[baza]

I buy the mail cos I like the crosswords more interesting and harder than the sun.

[jno]

404 page not found; I'm so disappointed

[jno]

I think I've found it... Jennings doesn't seem to be one of their regular cartoonists (who aren't that good either). But you can't judge a newspaper by its blogs; as others have pointed out, anyone can join in the blogs, the same as on AB, and they attract a lot of trolls, righties as well as lefties. They're not necessarily 'readers'. (The same is true of Mail blogs.)

[TheNovice]

The Mail has always had a reputation for exagerating issues which help support their (sometimes) extreme right wing views and moral standpoints. Anything that can 'raise the stakes' in anti EU/Immigration/Social Benefits spheres in particular.

The Guardian seems to have taken this mantle on for the left and seems not to want to leave these issues to the red top that fights this corner. I've discussed this is another thread today where they sensationalsie the story of the security helpers being stranded in Lopndon during the jubilee weekend. If I remember the headline was 'coachloads of people stranded....'. In fact it seems about 8 people were affected of which two (un-named) sources were quoted. Shame really, donn't agree with much of their opinions but if it remained credible it would help people form a balanced opinion on serious issues.

[pdq1]

When they give a knighthood to a cleaner or a road crossing attendant we an all celebrate that Britain has become an equal and fair country.

[FredPuli43]

You'll get extreme, illogical, responses to news items on any paper's site.

What matters is extreme, illogical, responses in the newspaper. The Daily Mail is good at those. The Guardian needs more practice.