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Kromo
Although I really want to draw a line under this discussion, I feel I must give you the courtesy of an answer.
I have to disagree with you that the Daily Mail reporting is lazy or poor in quality. Take for example your Swan story. The way I see it is that it was the Sun who distorted the evidence, the DM took up the story, sent out a reporter to try and shed some light into the fact that swans had been slaughtered, and then reported it's findings.
The Daily Mail is a highly commendable newspaper, and reports on matters that some papers are afraid to highlight in case it offends certain people.
But to use an analogy, take film/theatre/art critics they will report their opinions, but they are not necessarily the opinion of others. Therefore perhaps you are expressing your opinion on a particular newspaper, and I am doing likewise. So I think we must agree to disagree, but having said that, it just annoys me, this constant relentless Daily Mail bashing.
Newspapers are fundamentally meant to inform their readers. Not tell people what to think.
This is a broad statement, and I am afraid you are living in cloud-cuckoo land if you really believe this. They would like to tell people what to think, as do all media. How else do they attempt get their own particular message across, be it on global warming, injustices in the world etc, etc.
They certainly can not force a person what to think, it is up to the individual to read, absorb and then make up one's own mind.