Bias reporting from the Daily Mail (once again)

[glenn forger]

that is some of the crappiest reporting I've seen for a while, they twist and turn to shift blame onto a kid on a bike who did nothing wrong, what the hell are they banging on about helmets for and why did they make up quotes that don't exist?

 

[numbnuts]

From the Mail today RIP

Mrs Jones was thrown off her borrowed horse onto the sand, suffering fatal head injuries despite wearing a helmet

Horse rider's get the same treatment too

 

[Vapin' Joe]

The Mail is a popular paper because it has a high news content and features that interest a lot of people. Contrary to what some here believe people's choice of newspaper is not always influenced by their political views, many either ignore the papers leanings or take them with a pinch of salt. The Sun's main readership is probably more Labour than Tory despite it's traditional right wing stance, it is bought in the main for celebrity gossip, sport and TV coverage.

Those who bang on about Daily Mail reading scum and Sun reading morons really ought to get out more, their narrow view of how the world works needs educating.

 

[glenn forger]

The Sun's main readership is probably more Labour than Tory .

Amongst Sun readers though it was CON 42%, LAB 29%, LDEM 12%

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/2291

 

[winjim]

I get the impression that the Sun readership will vote for whoever the Sun backs. The Sun, in turn, will back whoever it thinks will win.

Hence they can always claim "It was the Sun what won it"

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I get the impression that the Sun readership will vote for whoever the Sun backs. The Sun, in turn, will back whoever it thinks will win.

Hence they can always claim "It was the Sun what won it"

The Sun's influence on how it's readers vote is tiny in comparison to the readership's influence on who the Sun backs. The paper is a populist organ and is terrified of being out of step with it's customers, hence it's constant headlining about paedophiles, "Our Boys" in the forces and the England football team during tournaments and why it switched it's allegiance to Labour in 1997. It knows when it is on safe ground and will not upset it's buyers.

As said above, a very cleverly run paper.

 

[glenn forger]

Its.

 

[up hill struggle]

only reason i buy any news paper is to read the cartoons & tv guide.

theres nothing else in them that's worth reading surely

 

[winjim]

Its.

It's its.

 

[Crankarm]

Also here for the DMphobes,

https://uk.tv.yahoo.com/billie-piper-road-accident-114648685.html

You would have thought that some one who has experienced many times travelling back and forth in time would have foreseen this collision and avoided it?

Unlike the injured cyclist she didn't need a doctor, but instead a Time Lord.

What a silly Billy.

 

[CopperBrompton]

I hope they charge her with dangerous driving, she would be charged if she'd done it in front of another car

Not a chance. It would have been a fender-bender and police wouldn't even have attended.

I'm constantly amazed that anyone with even a half a brain reads the Daily Mail.

Surely having half a brain is the perfect qualification for reading the Daily Mail?

Time for this to get another airing, I think:

 

[Profpointy]

Unfortunately, many people with brains read the Daily Mail, I don't know why either.

that's quite a bold claim

 

[Crankarm]

Why the pathological hatred of those that read the Daily Mail? We have freedom of choice don't we? Surely to do so, to stigmatise those who choose to do so, makes you even worse than the those you seek to stigmatise and ridicule? I don't read the DM by the way. I have no strong feelings about those who do or don't read it.

 

[swee'pea99]

I think 'pathological hatred' is overstating the case somewhat. Also, I think most people who feel strongly about it tend to direct their feelings against the paper itself rather than its readers.

And I suspect that the reason the Mail attracts the loathing it does it because many people feel it cynically, if expertly, taps into, fosters and reinforces a rather nasty 'little Englander' mentality that doesn't like foreigners, doesn't like blacks, doesn't like queers, and actually doesn't much like anyone who isn't like us.

 

[vernon]

I really like the Daily Mail...







......and Vernon doesn't drink absinthe

Funny you should mention that. I've just had a glug of absinthe as a night cap to chase down the plum based napalm that replaced my Unicum.