Why I hate the Daily Mail, as distilled into one edition

My exacting standards of judgement and insight are sort of limited to "don't deal with the press unless absolutely necessary, never deal with the Daily Mail unless they've got a close relative at gunpoint".

forgot to add 'present company excepted' to my last post obv.

seriously tho can ilx's press corps solemnly attest to either a) never bending the truth themselves b) knowing for sure that no colleague of theirs has done same

We're not talking about bending the truth though are we, we're talking about making stuff up.

The mail exagerrating her story, bending it to fit their remit and prejudices, would not surprise me. The exact extent to which the entire thing was fabricated *does surprise me - especially laid out so clearly and in such depth.

Well, this is what I was saying above:

Everyone expects the DM to bend the truth, but not just plain "make it all up"...

come on guys you know what i mean

The making stuff up out of whole cloth does surprise me, the concentration on her supposed advantages does not. As a journalist, you can often get in trouble for quoting things a subject DID say - it involves a bullying phone call from a PR whose client has entitlement issues or a bad case of foot in mouth disease. Generally, if your subject has participated in more interviews than you've had hot dinners, they have no comeback for their actions - and any bad dealings they might have had with other journalists is neither my fault nor my problem. If I am dealing with someone who really is not a professional interviewee and is talking about something personal, I usually take great care not to stitch them up.

Yeah but you learnt not to trust letters from readers wives in the back of razzle a long time back, surely?

― if there is a King Kenny, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 02:27 (7 hours ago)

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Cheryl Cole does her own dirty work as she phones her local council for a wheelie bin

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:23 PM on 10th February 2011

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She's one of the biggest stars in Britain and has an army of assistants, make-up artists and stylists to cater to her every whim.

But millionaire pop star Cheryl Cole showed she still has her feet on the ground when she phoned up her local London council to order a wheelie bin.

Instead of getting an assistant to do the dirty work, the 27-year-old singer spoke to an Enfield council employee herself so she could get her waste disposal in order.

now that's news!

i bet she got one quicker than most people.

I dunno, the council seem to have spent the immediate time phoning the media about it.

She may be one of the most highly paid council chief executives in London, but Enfield boss Moira Philpot showed she still has her feet on the ground when she did the dirty work of leaving fourteen increasingly desparate voicemails with Associated Newspapers.

"Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355525/Theft-finding-Woman-took-thrown-Tesco-waffles-charged-stealing.html

Ms Hall, who works part-time at a rival supermarket in Chelmsford, is to appear in magistrates court on February 16 charged with theft by finding.

Hmmm.......

Reckon an innocent verdict?

Theft by finding?

So if i find a wallet on the floor, i'm a thief?

What's that saying, "find a penny pick it up all day long you'll have good luck"?

So if i find a wallet on the floor, i'm a thief?

if you don't hand it in to the cops, yeah i think there's a reasonable argument there. otoh if you find a bunch of usable food thrown out to the rubbish...

So if i find a wallet on the floor, i'm a thief?

Yes, if you don't hand it in, etc. Then, if it's unclaimed, it's yrs.

Anyway, then again, presumably the staff member who threw the pies out is not going to tell the court he did this.

Xpost we all join in...

I'm mostly intrigued by the "no comments for legal reasons" thing there.

Presumably, because anything that says "Tesco are a bunch of bast" is going to get their legal reps hmm interested.

no, it's because commenters will discuss whether they think she's guilty or not, which could be thought to prejudice her trial.

That's never stopped them before.

Then again,

too late now, i spent the £10 on sweets and threw the wallet over the railway about 26 years ago.

oh well.

so this week we have the Star repping for the EDL and the Mail going to bat for freeganism - what a time to be alive iirc

Priorities have changed.

Along with that story re the School gov being all "School Standards are slipping" then showing how badly her school was doing since she took charge, etc.

They really do think their feet are well under the table.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1355755/Claudia-Aderotimi--Dying-fame-artless-victim-hip-hop-woman-haters.html?ITO=1490

OK, be prepared for the WTF line...

She was incredibly proud of the fact that the multi-millionaire rapper 50 Cent had called her an ‘African princess’, ­seeing this as a great compliment.

I just had a phone call from someone asking my opinion on the Daily Mail, what I would change about it, why I preferred my newspaper over choice over it, and what it would take to make me buy it after I declined their offer of a special rate to have it delivered every day. My suggestion that I wouldn't take it even if they paid me (though they could try paying me if they wanted, but it's unlikely to alter my tolerance of badly-written racist scaremongering) didn't go down too well.

Do they only wheel out Jan Moir when they have a dead person's peer group to offend or does she do other things too?

twas only a matter of time...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356245/Hotel-owner-sparks-anger-putting-provocative-sign-declaring-Poofters-welcome.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1357759/Beyonce-shows-lighter-side.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1358119/Beyonce-Knowles-Why-I-believe-betraying-black-Asian-Women.html

Nobody complained about Michael Jackson going pale skinned and he was way more famous than Beyonce.

- Richard, Colchester, 18/2/2011 18:37

since when was y-a-b writing for them

I seem to remember a lot of commentary about MJ's change in skin colour, a lot of it negative. What a ridiculous comment "richard, colchester".

that is an alltime comment

do the mail readers really care about black celebs lightening their skin? seems odd. though maybe its just there to make them feel secretly better/proud, dressed up as concern.

and im surprised YAB is writing for them.

its just there to make them feel secretly better/proud, dressed up as concern

id stick to writing for loony left newspapers if i were you, oh and see a doctor regarding that chip on your shoulder.

- nina, stalingrad uk, 19/2/2011 10:40
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Stalingrad

Still, she got 167 votes...

incisive zing from the stalingrad woman there

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359068/Bristol-Googled-economy-Sarah-Palin-asks-daughter-trawl-internet-crucial-speech.html

which one of you left this comment?

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Just another hit piece on Sarah Palin by the Liberal Daily Mail. Nothing illegal or unethical here, move on. The Anchorage Daily News is another Liberal paper with a political agenda. The DM has never one had a positive story on Palin, because you hate Conservatives and especially effective Conservative women like Palin.

- Dave, Arlington, VA, USA, 21/2/2011 12:33
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359068/Bristol-Googled-economy-Sarah-Palin-asks-daughter-trawl-internet-crucial-speech.html#ixzz1EeCVK87t

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1359367/Labours-immigration-policy-let-3m-defiance-British-peoples-wishes.html

By Sir Andrew Green

Official figures to be published on Thursday will confirm that foreign immigration under Labour added more than three million to our population.

At the same time nearly one million British citizens voted with their feet, some saying that they were leaving because England was no longer a country that they recognised.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1359367/Labours-immigration-policy-let-3m-defiance-British-peoples-wishes.html#ixzz1EiXLxn3s

so the scots & the welsh left because england wasn't the same?

There's not actually any reference in that article as to why mass immigration is A Bad Thing. Lots of stuff about 'people don't like it, how did this happen? was it conspiracy? what can be done?', but not one explanation as to what the problem is in the first place.

They don't even have to spell it out anymore, do they? Can't you see? Immigrants equals exploding brown muslins who are invading proud broken britain and it's all europe's fault! :-( (etc)

Please someone close to her tell her the truth and maybe she will bath and shampoo that bird nest of matted hair. She is a disgrace to women. A person should not have to be dirty and just plain weird to be considered talented! If that is what it takes then she certainly is a winner.

- jaden232, us, 24/2/2011 17:58

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1360126/Oscars-2011-nominee-Helena-Bonham-Carter-dresses-comfort.html

Peoples princess markII

"Royal role: Kate Middleton, right, greets children as Princess Diana did."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/royalwedding/article-1360259/Kate-Middletons-Royal-engagement-Prince-William-Anglesey-lifeboat-station.html#ixzz1EuU2CN9r