Daily Mail links

[ivanovitch57]

why do so many bigots who make statements thinly disguised as questions use links to the Daily Mail to justify their arguments?

[DrFilth]

same as the bigots who answer post a link to the guardian and independent
they have good on line sites ?


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[paraffin]

You get links from various newspapers, not just the DM. The Guardian is also extensively used. So, to be fair about it, I suppose by your logic, those people would also be bigots, yes?

[whifffey]

By bigots you merely mean people who have views different from your own. It's called freedom matey. Live with it.

[VHG]

After reading the definition of bigot below it seems you are a bigot as well (as is anyone who takes offence at another person's views)

Definition: A bigot is a person who is intolerant of or takes offense to the opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own

[DSnewsKE]

...but more bigots buy the Daily Mail than any other paper...

[LucyThomas6]

In my opinion, the worst bigots are those on the left wing of politics. As has been discussed on here before, they are far nastier than those on the right.

[craft1948]

I'm a very nice Daily Mail reader...........I even have friends who buy the Guardian...

[ivanovitch57]

i don't deny anyone their right to hold an opinion different to my own.
i just find it interesting that people who discriminate on grounds of race or religion tend to use the daily mail to illustrate their point.

[ludwig]

So let me get this straight, you're implying that the Mail is a right wing publication that panders to bigots...woooaaahh - radical.

[jedimistress]

If you read the Daily Mail you'd see why. It is a bitter, negative, uninformative paper which plays on people fears, jealousy, negative and niave sides. It stirs up hate amongst people generally by targeting other groups of people with worst case stories. Whether it be single mothers, gypsies, poles. It is designed for people who don't have much life experience so are gullible enough to suck it all up. Else for people who just like a good moan.

[paraffin]

jedimistress:

Where do you get your info about the Daily Mail from? Here's a sample of yesterday's stories in it:

Front page headline: Harman: I'll Put Women In Charge Of Banks.

And an assortment of other headlines inside:
1. "Innocents' DNA kept for 12 years.
2. Hunt for 30,000 rapists and thugs.
3. Overdose tragedy of Mosley's son.
4. Tories went over the top in Operation Get Gordon.
5. Innocent victims of Pakistan's bloodbath.
6. Mushrooms "give your body a boost to beat the flu."
7. Migrants escape horrific acid death.
8. Axe I.D. card, save �1.3bn.

"bitter, negative, uninformative" "stirs up hate amongst people" "worst case stories"

jedi, continue reading the Beano, sounds like it's about your level.

[Gromit]

The Daily Mail is very good at what it does - delivering a right wing news agenda. It is also the second best selling newspaper in the country (after the Sun).

Therefore, it is understandable that someone with right wing views will read the DM and use it to back their argument.

There is nothing wrong with that. My only gripe with the Daily Mail is when I detect a news story has been distorted by omitting relevant facts.

Has as been pointed out, you seem to regard anyone who does not share your views as a bigot. That is not really a good trait, and definitely not one for visiting a public news forum website.

[sp1814]

ivanovitch57

I suspect that bigots specifically enjoy the Daily Mail because the opinion pieces and leader column reflect their simplistic and narrow-minded views on complex issues.

Little Englanders gravitate to the Mail and Express rather than quality 'right of centre' newspapers (such as the well-written Telegraph and Times) because these papers throw in a degree of journalistic integtrity absent from the Express Group papers.

Also, if you hate Muslims, the Daily Mail is a wonderful source of anti-Muslim stories.

By the way, I'm sure not all Mail readers are bigots and Little Englanders, just not all Guardian reader are lettuce-munching liberals. The best man at my wedding is a Mail reader and he's a really nice bloke who reads the Mail simply because he likes the paper!