Should The Daily Mail Web Site Be Banned From Answerbank?

[anotheoldgit]

It would appear from the various of anti Daily Mail comments that appear regularly on the news section of Answerbank, that many would only be too pleased to see it banned from this site.

Since the Daily Mail has the largest combined monthly readership according to this Guardian report.

/// Overall, the Daily Mail still had the largest combined monthly readership across the board with 18.8 million print and online readers, followed by the Sun with just under 17 million and the Guardian in third. In terms of weekly and daily readers, the Sun remained the most popular newspaper with 12.6 million and 7.2 million combined readers respectively. ///

What does this say about some contributors to this site, are they themselves closeted readers of this newspaper and don't like to admit it?

[ichkeria]

What a bizarre question. Presumably AOG would not like to see it banned and yet as far as I can see he is the only person to suggest it.
No one else thinks it a good idea .
Shame on you AOG. :-)

[mikey4444]

I agree...daft question.

[Svejk]

Well if you will keep crticising Aog for posting 'Mail' stories, you can't blame the man for asking. I see it as a 'put up or shut up' question.
Far from being pointless it seems to have worked to me.

[Hypognosis]

@aog (re OP)

No, it should not be banned. We need reactionary huffing and puffing from the DM so as to have something to have a giggle at, of a morn'

By the way, I am still largely convinced that you are actually in the pay of the DM, in a kind of "cash for posting links" fashion. By all means disabuse me of this notion, at your convenience :O)

[sp1814]

Svejk

It's more that some of us criticise Mail stories because they are so heavily 'spun'. So many times we have to look to other sites (Telegraph, BBC, Guardian) to find out the facts of a story, rather than viewing through the rabid prism go the Mail.

AOG seems to think that the Mail's readership numbers are an indication of quality.

Using that logic - the best programme on television is Corrie, and the finest food you could eat in a restaurant - is Heinz baked beans followed by Kelloggs corn flakes.

Outstanding...

[dave50]

Why is the Daily Mail and it's reader ridiculed and mock so much on this site? Why don't Guardian and Daily Mirror readers get the same treatment?

[sp1814]

dave50

Because the Daily Mail makes up stories.

[Zeuhl]

... and spins everything else unscrupulously

[society]

"Should The Daily Mail Web Site Be Banned From Answerbank?"

Eh!? Why? AnswerBankers still wouldn't refrain from browsing it :)

[McMouse]

"Should The Daily Mail Web Site Be Banned From Answerbank?"

No. However there is a good case for banning Abers who consider the DM to be the source of all that is true. Oh, the curse of certainty.