Why I love the Daily Mail, as distilled into one story.

Maybe everyone's trolling constantly these days, which is why the BBC ends up clogged with righties, and the DM ends up with lots of egalitarians.

He dun a cannabis, and his partner went into another room with another man = he is a hedonistic gay man asking to die..

Why I love the Daily Mail, as distilled into one reader comment:

What tv bigwigs fail to understand is that Countdown stood for a GB that is fast disappearing. 27 years ago, viewers were folk who still had memories of street parties and Silver Jubilees, yet to go through 2 recessions and thought that 4 channels was choice enough. The slightly guilty pleasure of an afternoon was cosy and comforting, it meant fireside, a good cup of tea and a few digestives. The need to replace original host Richard Whitely, was obvious, understood in the nation's collective psyche. But as a nation of traditionalists, woe betide the tv execs who try to mess with the format beyond that! Vorderman was the last connection viewers had with a programme that existed meritoriously as nation's brain workout, rather than a ubiquitous "big money" game show. Fans of this programme never asked for Countdown to be 'sexed up' or modernised. And while moving with the times can be seen as admirable, sometimes hanging onto the old values is the conundrum they should be working out.

- J Bee, NW England, 16/10/2009 4:16

Nice job tying it in with the death of Matt Lucas' partner too - doubling up the offensiveness. That's good even by Shakey standards.

Guys tomorrow I am buying the Daily Mail. I may never be able to look my lefty father in the eye again.

I might even be bothered to complain about that Moir piece (of crap). PCC code of practise...

5. Intrusion into grief or shock
i) In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with sympathy and discretion and publication handled sensitively. This should not restrict the right to report legal proceedings, such as inquests.

PCC won't listen unless you're a subject or related to a subject of the story.

Call up and tell them you're Stephen Gateley.

That Gateley piece is appalling, poisonous conjecture.

There's a facebook campaign to complain to all the advertisers that ran beside it, in print and online. That's a good idea.

PCC won't listen unless you're a subject or related to a subject of the story.

Oh yeah, the dead can't sue and all that...

http://notsowunderbar.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-there-is-nothing-natural-about-jan.html

"Some of my best friends are Jan Moir’s weird face"

PCC won't listen unless you're a subject or related to a subject of the story.

Yeah, I figured they would have thought of something like that. They've changed the headline of the article I notice.

I need to complain to someone.

http://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/4913531605

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

Stephen Fry otm

There's a facebook campaign to complain to all the advertisers that ran beside it, in print and online. That's a good idea.

― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:41 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

Looks like all the ads have gone!

http://www.dailyquail.org/2009/10/jan-moir-why-theres-nothing-natural.html

^^^^ AMAZING

THey just reprinted the article, haven't they?

Kevin McGee, the former husband "of" Little Britain star Matt Lucas

This has made me think about whether I really want The Graduate or not now. I mean fuck these guys, even if they are giving away great films I haven't seen yet.

"The Motorcycle Diaries" instead?

which is shown regularly on Film 4 ..

the graduate was on itv this very week

so they are cunts about that one dudes death huh?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir

Yep, nailed concisely there.

Mr Fry's twitter now has a reply condemning the Daily Mail from celebrated liberal right-thinker... Chris Moyles?!
http://twitter.com/CHRISDJMOYLES/status/4916617692

aka, game recognise game

Jan Moir responds - makes things worse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/16/jan-moir-stephen-gately-response

"In what is clearly a heavily orchestrated internet campaign I think it is mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones."

Undertones? No.

Also I just wanted to say that civil marriages can be problematic because people in them can DIE. Of being gay.

It's good to save articles like this to compare and contrast with the Daily Mail's upcoming "Evil Sick Bigots Who Celebrate the Death of Our Greatest Ever Prime Minister" piece.

Looking forward to a full scale "everyone's picking on me" whine in tomorrows Mail.

Fiver says it's "J'Accuse the Gay Mafia"

There'll be agendas and possibly even political correctness. Bonus marks if cancer and/or health and safety make appearances.

first time i've seen this:

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT CHEATING MIDDLE BRITAIN?

ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVING HOUSE PRICES CANCER?

COULD THE BBC SCROUNGE OFF YOUR DAUGHTERS?

ARE GYPSIES GIVING YOUR PENSION DIABETES?

HAVE GYPSIES KILLED YOU?

^^^ yuo can tell these are made up because they actually make some kind of sense, unlike real DM articles...

COULD ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVE COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY DIABETES?

COULD THE UNEMPLOYED HAVE SEX WITH DRIVERS?

HAVE THE POLES STOLEN FROM CLIFF RICHARD?

WILL RIP-OFF BRITAIN GIVE MIDDLE BRITAIN DIABETES?

So, if there's nothing homophobic about this, it's gonna be a bummer to turn up at work on Monday morning and find half of the under 30s we work with dead, innit?

WILL CHAVS INFECT THE CHURCH WITH AIDS?

ARE GAYS TURNING YOUR MORTGAGE GAY?

COULD YOUR LOCAL COUNCIL RUIN HARD WORKING FAMILIES?

was my best one!

IS THE HOUSE PRICE CRASH HAVING SEX WITH COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY?