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Boards hatred of The Daily Mail

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    #32
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    walshb wrote: »
    Newspaper snobbery I guess.

    I think it's a great paper, as good as any Irish paper on the market.
    Yes, it does sensationalise at times, big deal?

    The online site is superb, ****ing loaded with news and everything else

    The health and science and tech sections are very very good

    One of today's gems, snobbery it is not.
    25-stone man's mobility scooter crash sparks traffic chaos... after it takes 30mins to get him on to a stretcher


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    #33
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,183 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    RasTa wrote: »
    One of today's gems, snobbery it is not.

    Now, that's a story I'd read. What exactly is wrong with that ONE story?

    Many papers have similar snippets that take you away from the mundane and the ordinary.


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    #34
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    walshb wrote: »
    Now, that's a story I'd read. What exactly is wrong with that ONE story?

    Many papers have similar snippets that take you away from the mundane and the ordinary.


    Fair enough with the one story although I could quote some more. It's the style of writing which I hate.


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    #35
    stovelid
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    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    I've noticed a lot of abuse directed at the daily mail on boards.

    I know they write some rubbish but so do a lot of newspapers.

    What is it exactly about the Daily Mail that you hate?

    I don't see INDO/SINDO/NOTW/SUN/MIRROR/STAR links every time I look in AH, that's why.


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    #36
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,183 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    RasTa wrote: »
    Fair enough with the one story although I could quote some more. It's the style of writing which I hate.

    Well, at least you are giving reasons. Something tells me that many are simply following the flock on this one, persons who read the paper and persons who don't. It's fashionable nearly to be anti the Mail, and anti some things.

    Just like when Barack Obama was running for U.S. President. The whole ****ing world and his mother was supporting him; but many didn't even know why. They knew **** all about the man, and what he stood for.


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    #37
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231150/Mapping-strain-NHS-How-London-hospital-ward-treated-babies-72-different-nations-world.html

    Oh yeah, nothing wrong with that! :eek:


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    #38
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,183 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    stovelid wrote: »
    I don't see INDO/SINDO/NOTW/SUN/MIRROR/STAR links every time I look in AH, that's why.

    So true, so many mail links, yet people hate the mail?:rolleyes:


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    #39
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,183 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Sleipnir wrote: »
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231150/Mapping-strain-NHS-How-London-hospital-ward-treated-babies-72-different-nations-world.html

    Oh yeah, nothing wrong with that! :eek:

    It is a detailed news report on an issue in Britain, an issue that people
    are reading about and anting to know about. Could you maybe elaborate on what is "wrong" with this article?

    There are thousands of articles, it's easy to pick out a few that gets your goat and then criticise.


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    #40
    Fear Uladh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    People wont read anything unless it has Ashley or Cheryl Cole on it.:rolleyes:


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    #41
    Angus Og
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭Angus Og


    I'll give you a reason. The Daily Mail have a history of being anti-Irish. They came to Ireland as the Irish Daily Mail so they could make money. I don't see why Irish people should give them money, but you are free to do so.


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    #42
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I love the way it can be vehemtly on opposing sides, depeneding on which issue you buy:- Cervecal cancer jab

    UK - anti - it will give your children autism (or some other popular middle class illness)

    Irl: -pro- Mary Harney wants girls to die!!!


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    #43
    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    They are spoofers, to the last. Private Eye and plenty of other blogs and websites regularly point out their horsesh*t.

    Here's one recent laughable example:
    http://theblogpaper.co.uk/article/environment/22feb10/daily-mail-fails-tell-whole-picture


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    #44
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,183 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Angus Og wrote: »
    I'll give you a reason. The Daily Mail have a history of being anti-Irish. They came to Ireland as the Irish Daily Mail so they could make money. I don't see why Irish people should give them money, but you are free to do so.

    Now, that's a reason I ca go with. It's the "It's trash" that is just plain lame.

    The paper and site contain a mountain of news and other stuff, some brilliant, some good and some not good. It's not perfect, but what paper is?
    Folks here moaning are actually reading the articles. I don't buy the paper, as I find it difficult to read. It's quite dense and at times hard to focus on.

    That is why the Sun, Star are that bit easier on the eye, simpler and easier digestion


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    #45
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    I hate the Daily Mail. And I AM a xenophobic racist.


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    #46
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Stig of the Dump for the self conscious?


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    #47
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    walshb wrote: »
    It's quite dense

    Nail on the head.


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    #48
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    kraggy wrote: »
    I hate the Daily Mail. And I AM a xenophobic racist.

    Prefer the Express ?


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    #49
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,183 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Devon Gifted Vinyl wrote: »
    Nail on the head.

    Damn you!:p


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    #50
    Pete M.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    kraggy wrote: »
    I hate the Daily Mail. And I AM a xenophobic racist.

    Xenophobic and Racist?

    You seem confused, surely you should only be one or the other?

    On one hand, you're afraid of foreigners, but you think that other races are inferior?

    That may come from reading this paper.
    It actually reduces your ability to act or think intelligently IMHO


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    #51
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    phasers wrote: »
    The toaster just doesn't exercise them as well as a good blast of radiation

    Evil spirits need exercise ?

    What type ? Jogging, swimming ?


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    #52
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    I've noticed a lot of abuse directed at the daily mail on boards.

    I know they write some rubbish but so do a lot of newspapers.

    What is it exactly about the Daily Mail that you hate?
    no, the Daily Mail takes it to a whole new level


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    #53
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Pete M. wrote: »
    Xenophobic and Racist?

    You seem confused, surely you should only be one or the other?

    On one hand, you're afraid of foreigners, but you think that other races are inferior?

    That may come from reading this paper.
    It actually reduces your ability to act or think intelligently IMHO


    Nah, he just fears inferior races


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    #54
    B0X
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭B0X


    TheIrishGrover wrote: »
    Nah, he just fears inferior races

    Yeah, coming over here, diluting his gene pool.


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    #55
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    The Daily Express is worse though.


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    #56
    phasers
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    Dudess wrote: »
    The Daily Express is worse though.
    Is that the paper that worships Diana?


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    #57
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    OP, you wouldn't happen to be a journalist by any chance? I ask because only a journalist would be naive enough to ask that question.


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    #58
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Dudess wrote: »
    The Daily Express is worse though.

    Especially in recent years it has been doing the damndest to out mail the mail.
    phasers wrote: »
    Is that the paper that worships Diana?
    And Madel Madeleine


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    #59
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    What is it exactly about the Daily Mail that you hate?

    I'm not familiar with the Irish version, because they don't appear to have bothered with a website, but the UK version is pretty unpleasant. Any publication which boasts such bigoted cúnts as Richard Littlejohn, Peter Hitchens, Melanie Philips and Jan Moir on the payroll deserves to be hated.


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    #60
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yeah, the Irish edition is fairly tame - very tame actually - compared to the UK one.


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    #61
    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    As far as I can see, there's not much to choose between the Mail and the Express. The Sun, Mirror and the Star aren't exactly high-brow papers, but unlike the Mail and Express they don't pretend that they are. I do look at the headlines of the Daily Mail, but otherwise I just ignore it, and so should everyone else.


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