The Daily Mail

[TheGopher]

Why do people take it as their daily paper?

[TheGopher]

Thanks for your answers and for your information on The Mail's history Shaneystar2.

I must admit to not missing having a newspaper. However I do keep up to date with 'real' news. The internet and radio being my main sources.

I should hate to feel labelled because of any newspaper I might read.

[The Big Gill]

I occasionally get it passed to me by a work colleague when they've finished with it. It doesn't take me long to flick through the pages and it's rarely that I find anything interesting in it. It does seem like an odd sort of newspaper - a collection of 'Well-I-never', and 'Isn't -this-shocking' -type articles and quizzes and puzzles, and I wonder what their target audience is. Then I see the adverts for stairlifts, bunion shoes, incontinence pants and garden ornaments.

[Lonnie]

I think johnlamberts said it all in his first post, personally, I would read a paper that supports this goverment, but only if it was given to me, I wouldn't buy it.

[TheGopher]

I must admit our very eldery neighbours take it and they read the 'Isn't it Shocking' and 'Well I never' type magazines as well and are very right wing, the Big Gill.

[Sasha13]

Yeah, I read the Daily Mail but wouldn't describe myself as right wing - The reason I buy it is that I find broadsheets heavy reading (no I'm not a complete lightweight) and if you can get past its xenophobic tendancies it actually has some good things - Other than the language they use to report use I like the letters page as I think they publish quite a broad range of views.This in contrast to The Sun for example which, apart from not containing any news, prints 12 letters that agree with their point of view and a token letter (or text) that disagrees with them.

[Le Chat]

The letters page of The Mail is very large and encompasses the differing opinions of its contributors. Rather like The Answer Bank!!!!!!
That's why I read it after my parents have finished with it! You also get loads of magazines with it on a Sunday and the odd CD every so often!

[robbo82]

I always have a good chortle to myself when I see someone reading the Daily Mail. Call me a wooly liberal if you want, but I can not understand how anyone can read it without laughing at the ridiculously biased articles. I'm a trainee teacher and hardly a day goes by either at uni or school when someone doesn'y make an anti-Daily Mail joke. And, yes, I am a Guardian reader.

[Ribena]

Are all teachers Guardian Readers?

[admarlow]

Robbo - The Guardian is just the Daily Mail of the left, and many people laugh at you for reading that to.

BTW I read the Times.

[hubblebubble]

I say scrap all of the above and read the news on the BBC website. It is practically unbiased, informative and has interesting links to other sources. The BBC has a vested interest in being factual and unbiased.

[hubblebubble]

It is unlikely that any newspaper is unbiased because all editors, journalists and writers hve their own view which is conveyed in whatever article they publish. I say read the news on the BBC website as it is informative, factual and has thousands of links to further information. The BBC has a vested interest in producing unbiased news and producing factual information.