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    #92
    lawhec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭lawhec


    I once had a job as a journalist for the Daily Mail. In my first week, I went along with the paper's general views, so I wrote a piece about how asylum seekers, immigrants, queers and socialists were the scum of the Earth and were ruining Great Britain.

    Surprisingly I was awarded a promotion. Not bad really, as I was only meant to be preparing a round up of the League One results.


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    #93
    crispsandwiches
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭crispsandwiches


    great layout - get to the news/gossip fast


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    #94
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    walshb wrote: »
    This is the snobbish, I am too good for the Mail, attitude. What is fictional?

    Point to the stories that are fictional? You make it sound like the news they report is false, inaccurate.... I don't think so. They wouldn't be in business if they were reporting fictional news items.

    Some of their stories have been destroyed within minutes of being posted here.

    And yes, you can make a living reporting fictional news items.
    walshb wrote: »
    Yes, and the body was brought home and burned without even a second autopsy from the home country, Ireland. You think the Spanish gave a rats ass how he died. They could have been paid off for all you know. Half ass autopsy, get it done, ask no questions....

    Jan Moir asked tough questions, people didn't like that, because it was about an Irishman, a gay Irishman who
    died under circumstances that were a little odd. .

    Can't let it go, can ye.


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    #95
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    Nodin wrote: »
    Some of their stories have been destroyed within minutes of being posted here.

    Name one.

    That's what he asked you to do. Not talk about "some stories before blah blah i'm a big fat transparent liberal liar".


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    #96
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    Name one.

    That's what he asked you to do. Not talk about "some stories before blah blah i'm a big fat transparent liberal liar".

    OOOoooo - Big Print.

    I wouldn't go calling me a liar, btw. I'm suprisingly sensitive.

    Transparent bollocks that was torn apart here
    http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/10/mail-blames-muslims-over-planning.html

    and as a bonus....bollocks that resulted in a court pay out......
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10802491


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    #97
    doopa
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭doopa


    Surprised no-one has posted this yet:

    http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/the-twat-o-tron/

    Originally developed for "creating" comments for the BBC Have your say section it works just as effectively for the daily mail. I wouldn't be surprised if it couldn't be expanded to generate articles for the Mail.

    And the infamous Mail style headline from Private Eye: "what kind of society lets the Daily Mail be published EVERY DAY?"


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    #98
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    Nodin wrote: »
    OOOoooo - Big Print.

    I wouldn't go calling me a liar, btw. I'm suprisingly sensitive.

    Transparent bollocks that was torn apart here
    http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/10/mail-blames-muslims-over-planning.html

    and as a bonus....bollocks that resulted in a court pay out......
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10802491

    Well yes, they may not get it right 100% of the time, when they don't they quickly retract their statements. This goes for all newspapers, it's a constant juggling act to get the right stories and get them out on time without mistakes. Sometimes errors creep in. If it didn't even make the print paper, I hardly think that counts as a horrible mistake.

    Everyone is aware that newspaper make mistakes sometimes - both tabloids and broadsheets, and have to retract articles/stories. I will accept that the Daily Mail probably has to retract claims more than for example The Times, because of the necessarily unofficial and unauthoratative way they obtain many of their stories due to the nature of the stories..... YOU said they were fiction which they are not. Maybe you should be suspicious and cynical over the supposed "official" stories a bit more and the tabloid ones a bit less.


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    #99
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Any more personal stuff will result in bans.
    Fair warning.

    The Daily Mail, is actually Britain's 2nd most popular newspaper after the Sun.
    As regards the Gately article; it generated the highest number of complaints for a news article in the history of the Press complaints commission. If one were to take a stance defending the output of the daily mail I would suggest trying another article.


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