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

hahahaha, al in camden, what a moment of clarity that is

he said what ! .

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/25/article-2106450-11E8CAC7000005DC-286_634x1043.jpg

neat pshop work w/ stewart robson

incase no one looks at the olympics thread
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-2112352/Tiffany-Porter-lead-Team-GB-World-Indoor-Championships.html

That is the worst article since, well, the last one I read. Seriously, did they ask the opinion of a single teammate, or just phone up random ex-athletes until they found one to agree with them? Oh no, she might not have heard of someone who did something in a different sport nearly 50 years ago! Burn her!

I cba looking, but do they ever get their knickers in a knot about England footballers who don't sing the national anthem?

Did I hear somewhere that the Mail was banned from covering athletics as a result?

they don't often bring up the fact that there's about 2 englishmen in the England cricket team

but i must admit underneath all the Mailesque rhetoric there's the germ of a point in that article

Presumably the governing body didn't give this lassie the captaincy just to piss off the mail though?

nah i'm sure they didn't but i can see them doing it for bullshit branding purposes. what does a captain actually do in athletics? and ok if the rules say you can adopt non-natives but isn't the point of a nation-based competition really that your competitors are more or less unambiguously from the nation concerned?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/mar/09/great-britain-tiffany-porter-plastic-brit

Plenty dual-nationality participants in plenty sports, shouldn't be any more of an issue than Kevin Pieterson captaining the cricket team.

yeah but as i say i'm not really keen on Pieterson doing that either. it's not a Tebbit test thing but it's getting ridic when 3 quarters of international football teams have their own adopted Brazilian who's a bit shit

ok so she has got an English mother which is fair enough i guess and fuck "god save the queen" but there's often an air of "flag of convenience" over this shit and i can still remember the Zola Budd bullshit - which the Mail was v. supportive of iirc

'Rafael da Silva for England' campaign starts here. xp

idk, does a Brazil-born player who has been living in a country for five years, speaks the language, is married and has kids with a local and has taken citizenship have less of a claim to playing for a national team than half the people turning out for Ireland or Senegal over the last ten years?

nah i know shit is complicated

dunno if it's just "convenience", carving out a decent career in sports is tough. several tennis players have changed nationality (often to kazakhstan) because their own federations don't have the money to fund them, or because the pool of players in their home country is so deep that their opportunities are reduced. do what you gotta do, is my view. sports shouldn't be about nationality.

i don't think individual sports - including athletics - are about nationality really. team games are maybe a bit different, competitions are run on national lines.

Not one Wolves player is a wolf

heh @ team games, pre-empting me there

xp

does the "clubs aren't made up of local players" thing in football have any bearing on national teams? maybe countries shd be able to buy in players like clubs do, we cd look forward to Qatar's dominance of the game for the next 30 or 40 years and nobody wd mind them having the World Cup.

I guess when Man City rule over the earth Qatar's dominance will be one step closer.

Always funny when ppl talk about Spanish or Italian or Eng dominance of the Champions League bcz many of those players aren't from these countries. Always been a fairly confused issue, obv with clubs its all due to cash but many people who are good at what they do but for whatever circumstances are prevented from competing and finding out how good they are or can be...don't blame them for taking a shortcut/fudging around to just get to that place.

In cricket Basil D'Oliveira is a classic example.

Didn't really care when Pietersen did it. Can't say it ws a big issue when he came over to play, South Africa didn't want him after all...(or that ws the story). Did care that he was no good at it tho'.

Mail kind of missing their own point by pushing Somali-born Mo Farah, who lives in Oregon, as someone who should be ahead of "plastic Brit" Porter who has an English mother.

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2012/Mar/Week2/16188278.jpg

Not sure about that picture caption.

Water cannon? Don't they know about the hosepipe ban?

Glad to see SamCam and Michelle have come out as lovers.

that caption!

Mail scum:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2117718/British-people-committing-suicide-escape-poverty-Is-State-wants.html

Newspaper of the year!

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/is-newspaper-of-the-year-at-the-press-awards/s2/a548461/

Alba i know the mail is being hypocritical here but what is wrong with the actual article?

honestly thats a great article

yes, can't see anything wrong with that..

I was being sarcastic.

(Sonia Poulton always seems to write good stuff)

This story speaks to me:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2124246/There-downsides-looking-pretty-Why-women-hate-beautiful.html

For once, check the 'comments'..

All the 'well said'/supportive type comments have mega-negs, and all the 'bleah, moany cow' ones get mega-pos ratings.

I've been reading about this on twitter all day without reading the actual article. Just...wow. Can we have a response piece from Liz Jones next please before the Daily Mail implodes?

Will Brendan O'Neill do?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100148998/the-twitterstorm-against-samantha-brick-is-infinitely-uglier-and-nastier-than-the-article-she-wrote/

Yes, it's "infinitely" worse to call out bullshit than to be a self-regarding, conceited twerp.

Points for a Max Gogarty mention. Ah, I miss that lad.

Currently sexing his way around Thailand in a yout' stylee

http://chriscoltrane.posterous.com/alternative-ways-to-share-daily-mail-articles

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/02/120402fa_fact_collins

Latest in my series of New-York-press-writes-about-the-UK posts on ILX. For what it's worth I torrent Question Time every week still

adamrl, yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry0Bv1HQRD4

Haha

I'm eating massive prawns right now

can't put a price on it imo

lovely weather we're having

I mean, it really is. Lovely is an understatement. Does wonders for the blood.

My guess is that a certain person's married girl-friends are being tracked down to see how 'massively insulted' they feel, blah de blah etc...

Gravy-wrestling model suffers horrific facial injuries after being hit with monkey wrench when she interrupted a friend having sex

By Eddie Wrenn

PUBLISHED: 04:58 EST, 6 April 2012 | UPDATED: 09:47 EST, 6 April 2012

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Ah, the Bisto mum.