Boards hatred of The Daily Mail

Scanlas The 2nd

Anyone remember when the 24 hour drinking laws were coming into effect in the UK and the daily mail ran a campaign on how much it would make things worse. Then when nothing got worse you never heard of it again.

I must say though I prefer to read the Daily Maily over most papers as they usuall have a few interesting articles compared with other papers.

Truley

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:

:eek: wow, just... wow. that is terrifying.

walshb

Sometimes the truth is terrifying.

Anyway, I'd love if boards could do a check on all the links posted on this website over the last whenever and see which news source came out on top?

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Mail, which really would throw a spanner in the works for all those anti Mailites

TheIrishGrover

mikom wrote: »

Their poor coverage of pick-up-artist news stories.

Oh no, is that THAT guy!? Hahaha

greendom

walshb wrote: »

Sometimes the truth is terrifying.

Anyway, I'd love if boards could do a check on all the links posted on this website over the last whenever and see which news source came out on top?

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Mail, which really would throw a spanner in the works for all those anti Mailites

It probably would be the most popular source for After Hours - Ranting and Raving of course too.

Mike 1972

Thomas828 wrote: »

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.

This is what makes the latter so insidious. Many Sun readers know deep down that what theyre reading is really just a pile of shyte (They just buy it for the football/titties/free telly mag) Mail readers tend to accept it hook line and sinker.

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

I must say though I prefer to read the Daily Maily over most papers as they usuall have a few interesting articles .

Have you ever tried playboy :pac:

Truley

walshb wrote: »

Sometimes the truth is terrifying.

Thanks but I don't need a newspaper to tell me what should be scary or not.

I can agree that the Daily Mail is tripe but, to be honest, I strongly believe that all news is propaganda to some extent. I don't see the RTE news as any different from Eastenders or the Simpsons. It's all a business at the end of the day and it's a shame more people don't see that. Real information is something that you should seek out for yourself not something that is spoon fed to you.

Liam Byrne

Thomas828 wrote: »

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.

The Sindo pretends that it's a proper newspaper too, when in fact it's as tabloid, fictional and biased-opinionated as it comes.

efb

Just saw an ad there for the Daily Mail saying it who represents:

White Middle Class Nuclear family- anything else is abhorrent and tries to wreck this ideal family unit!!!

Bonito

Some of us dislike the Daily star too.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055819098

Ridley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfV3OuN57Bk

Pretty much covers it (along with this and Brooker's Daily Mail island). May offend certain et ceteras but you could just skip to the 47th second and pause.

Not that they're the only offenders, they're just more blatent about it.

recylingbin

It's the tabloid of choice for your thinking man's ignoramus.

I remember their front page headlines during the nineties. To say they tried to incite hatred against the Irish is a bit of an understatement. They're no different to the Sun and others of their ilk. But they masquerade as a serious paper to the common garden racist as it doesn't have a red top.

For Forks Sake

Plenty of reasons to avoid that rag outlined over the past 5 pages, another one being their contnued employment of that odious bint Mary Ellen Synon

marco_polo

Because it is a confusing paper.

Hands up if you are for and / or against cervical cancer vaccinations :rolleyes:

http://biasandbelief.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/daily-mail-campaigning-both-for-and-against-vaccination/

brendansmith

Good writers, great paper

Hagar

1) Boards is big enough to have a sizeable chunk of posters who hate anything you can name.

2) Why buy foreign papers?

Tar.Aldarion

'COULD RUSSELL BRAND GIVE THE MEMORY OF DIANA DIABETES?'

I for one say yes

69

69 wrote: »

Why buy foreign papers?

But... It has Irish in the title! :P

I seldom buy papers anyway! 'tinternet & Telly for all the news.

OctavarIan

Because the Daily Mail is very right-wing and most people nowadays would be more left-wing. That's really all there is to it.

Trashbat

OctavarIan wrote: »

Because the Daily Mail is very right-wing and most people nowadays would be more left-wing. That's really all there is to it.

Judging by our current voting trends we are certainly not Left wing, nor could we be considered more left wing than we were previously.

What we are is more socially liberal and tolerant and have no place for their inflamatory rightwing claptrap.

The Mail is one of the most manipulative media outlets as it specifically targets its articles to infuriate it more extreme readers.

The Jan Moir article is a prime example, with a dileberate effort to court controversy. Any decent sub would have ripped that apart before letting it go to print, but the mail actively seek to infuriate.

Bill-e

I like how they've set up their website.

Pitty about the content.

thetonynator

Moral of all this is: if you don't want to read a load of complete shíte in the papers, dont buy a tabloid.

AttackThePoster

Trashbat wrote: »

Judging by our current voting trends we are certainly not Left wing, nor could we be considered more left wing than we were previously.

Irish Halo

AttackThePoster wrote: »

FF the party in power is centre-right hence the "our current voting trends we are certainly not Left wing"

Also the labour movement was very important in Irish political history less so now therefore "nor could we be considered more left wing than we were previously".

Daily Mail writes stories designed to induce fear in the white middle class of the UK (well those who think they are middle class). Why any self respecting Irish person would buy the "localised" version of a paper which actively attacked the country for most of its history confuses me. Or is historical context a waste of time?

Riamfada

This thread has given me diabetes

dr.bollocko

It has a conservative bias which attracts the kind of people that are ready to get mad about anything that is not perceived as normal. Similar enough to the likes of Joe Duffy. It attracts mobs and craves the mob mentality. It wouldn't be for me because I disagree with their views, their leanings and the way they try and dish up hate and fear. It is at best theatre and at worst xenophobic rabble rousing. I don't think it has any intellectual merits to argue. Maybe the football writing is good?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/20/mydailyhell

blow69

Any paper that costs a euro can't be good.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Sorry, only scanned throught the thread... but did someone actually discribe the Daily Mail as "left wing"...??

Irish Halo

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Sorry, only scanned throught the thread... but did someone actually discribe the Daily Mail as "left wing"...??

They have been back, but didn't to clarify their post, I hope not ....

hooradiation

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Sorry, only scanned throught the thread... but did someone actually discribe the Daily Mail as "left wing"...??

I was more confused when someone tried to claim that it's science reporting was good.

They were just taking the piss, right?