Gawd!! - we haven't half upset the Daily Mail havent we??....

[Cycleops]

The main thing I've got against the Mail is the spelling and English grammar, it's dreadful. Written by people with a poor education.

 

[cougie uk]

What is it with the Mail??. They're absolutely gunning for cyclists - sorry, "Lycra Louts" at the moment. Their website is running simultaneous negative stories about cyclists in general. Society criminalised Dog owners and now it feels like it's our turn. They really need to witness some of the car "drivers" by me. Pimped up to s**t, driven by thugs and mysteriously no front number plates.

Life is too short to read that rag.

 

[Andy in Germany]

@Andy in Germany will know better, but Junge Frieheit is well known for being similar ilk to the DM.

Especially "Bild-Zeitung" or in short "Bild".
And less obvious other stuff from the publisher "Springer".

E.

"Bild" is the closest probably, but the newspaper scene is very different here; 'local' papers tend to be bigger and cover international news, so it's fortunately not as dominant as the DM.

Also, many people ride bicycles here for various reasons, so it would be hard to marginalise us as a group.

 

[matticus]

https://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=38270.0
https://thedailymailoncologicalontologyproject.wordpress.com/

 

[albion]

If you class cyclists as a race then it is now the only available legal racism. It fulfills a need.

 

[Dogtrousers]

If you class cyclists as a race then it is now the only available legal racism. It fulfills a need.

But people keep saying ... "It's not a race"

 

[PedallingNowhereSlowly]

Cycling is being made a wedge issue, lumped in with the climate change/green agenda.
Hence all the right-leaning press outlets are effectively trolling people whose sometimes/often ride a bike.

 

[Time Waster]

I didn't read it enough to notice

so I bow to your greater experience!

I didn't think people read the sport!

 

[Time Waster]

But people keep saying ... "It's not a race"

They are a race in the London parks apparently!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I didn't think people read the sport!

Not the Sport - but I sometimes used to find a Sun left on the train and picked it up to see what they we saying

I noticed that they often had a proper news item - properly written - on the page OPPOSITE the topless picture

I used to fold the "paper" over to read the article so the picture was on the opposite so that
a) it didn;t look I was spending time looking at the picture in an interested manner
b) I could sneak glance at the person sitting opposite to see where they were looking

After Hillsborough the papers left on the train were normally another red top - for obvious reasons

 

[Pat "5mph"]

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