The Daily Mail - there's something very, very, very wrong here.

[sp1814]

Surprise, surprise - another 'anti Daily Mail wail' from me.

...but honestly, isn't this a little bit digraceful?

The Daily Mail (I won't print the link) has published on the front page of it's website, a picture of a man who has recently been gored to death by an elephant in New Delhi.

It's the first thing you see when you go to their home page - great big banner pictures.

Am I being over-senstive, or is this really wrong?

[craft1948]

I'm just amazed that the Daily Mail is the second biggest selling paper in the UK........

[emmie]

appeals to the middle voters, its not that bad a paper.

[Answerprancer]

Nah, not that bad at all, it just twists facts, deliberately leaves out certain details to make things look like what they aren't, focuses on sleaze and deliberately caters for people who get off on being angry. Laaavely paper.

[joggerjayne]

"its not that bad a paper"

Actually, I think it is.

It's a raggy tabloid, with over-reaching pretensions.

If it would just accept that it was a low rent tabloid, and get on with it, then I could accept it.

[Zeuhl]

I know it's only a glorified comic but it does have a rather insidious and i think destructive agenda. Most of the 'news' items in The Mail are selected and/or shaped to propogate that agenda.

Not only is that regrettable, they also seem to employ a lot of hacks and 'stringers' who are encouraged to find (or make up) appropriate stories and sub-editors who aren't too fussy about the accuracy of the finished product.

[jno]

http://www.facebook.c....php?gid=269512464297

... pizza, Prince Charles' organic crips, BJs...

[jno]

uh, "crisps"

[craft1948]

So as it has such huge circulation figures do the people on here who decry it consider themselves more intelligent and discerning than a large swathe of the newspaper reading public?

[Zeuhl]

<<So as it has such huge circulation figures do the people on here who decry it consider themselves more intelligent and discerning than a large swathe of the newspaper reading public? >>

Yes.

Since when has mass popularity equated with quality?

[craft1948]

Just asking Zeuhl..............

[joggerjayne]

crafty ...

If Mail readers measure the extent of their intellect by reference to that newspaper, then I think most school children are more intelligent and discerning.

I would hope that people read the Daily Mail for a bit of light relief.

I read Grazia, but I hope nobody uses that as a measure of my academic prowess, LOL !!!

[Zeuhl]

LOL craft

no offence intended with brusqueness!

BTW
The Daily Mail has circulation of 2.1 million intelligent and discerning people
The Sun has even more intelligent and discerning customers with a circulation of 2.9 million.

Heaven help us! :-)

[joggerjayne]

Actually, as of January, 2011, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the newspaper with the biggest circulation is THE SUN !!!

If my intellectual capacity has slipped below that of a SUN reader, then I'm moving to Croydon.

[ChuckFickens]

The beano has a circulation of about 127000

Seemed relevant to this thread :)

[Zeuhl]

The Beano is a bastion of good values, good sense and integrity




especially when compared with The Daily Mail

[joggerjayne]

The Beano is still going ?????

Can you still get Tammy? or Bunty?

(or any of those comics we used to read, which sounded like names for our front bums)

[joggerjayne]

"The ***** is a bastion of good values, good sense and integrity

especially when compared with The Daily Mail".



You can put almost anything in there, and it would still work.

"Readers' Wives", for instance, LOL.

[emmie]

so anyone reading the mail is a demented, racist with little or no brain, ummm
perhaps should read the the times, covers all ground of course, but not particularly objective, grauniad left wing tosh, telegraph, read by the upwardly mobile, Independant or the Observer, haven't read either for long while, The Sun, read by knuckle dragging morons according to some. The problem with people is that they will stick to stereotypes, and not see the person reading the paper. because after all that's all it is.

[jno]

JJ there used to be (about 100 years ago) a women's magazine called The Monthly Packet. No longer going, I believe.

[joggerjayne]

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