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

haha, what's that all about then?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/16/pcc-targets-sunday-express-over-dunblane-claims

and read the article here The Daily Express

Amazing how they can be snarky about someone who is gravely ill. Not to get all Marcello, but the Daily Mail is representative of the worst of the UK.

i know i posted it to that thread, but the blog about the express journo's own facebook alcolol confessions has given me the sweetest schadenroffles of the year.

The Express story reads like a joke Mail story. You couldn't make it up, etc...

the Daily Mail is representative of the worst of the UK

Fixed.

has MC Coinflipper weighed in on this issue yet?

he quit during the night of the long suggestbans

Another fallen soldier.

No disrespect to MC, but ... given previous form, he'll be back.

I hope so, anyway.

He said he was giving it a month. Then he'll be back w/a new failed meme.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4292/wv3.jpg

Daily Mail Large Print Edition

okay what even is that all about? (much lols tho)

Apparently today's Daily Express front page says:

"Griffin was spattered with egg yolk. The BNP only accepts whites."

That's pretty good for them.

That's brilliant.

Not going to make me read The Express, right enough, but still brilliant.

the good/bad thing about the mail though is that its so amazingly consistent every single issue. i cant think of another paper which is as politically consistent with all its angles as the mail. i have to commend that, just on editorial terms.

Yep, totally consistent. Last year they were giving away thousands of energy saving bulbs and encouraging people to go green. This year trad bulbs got banned and the Mail led the campaign to bring them back again. Bravo chaps.

and there was that time recently they were scaremongering about the hpv cervical cancer vaccine in the uk, but promoting it in ireland:
http://www.layscience.net/node/507

And that time when they were getting really angry about the asylum seekers and all their benefits compared to last week when they were getting really angry with people for voting BNP?

consistently cnuts

Didn't the Dail Mail run a campaign against cervical cancer jabs, but in Ireland, where the Government refused to fund cervical cancer jabs, they campaigned for them?

Er, hang on... Oh, it's Bad Science, sorry to those who are a bit sick of people shouting STRAW MAN! ANECDOTES IMPERMISSIBLE! at poor innocents on message boards -

http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/experts-say-new-scientific-evidence-helpfully-justifies-massive-pre-existing-moral-prejudice/

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/03/article-1190675-0533A8C0000005DC-984_468x286.jpg

lol. ah ok, i obv dont read it as much as i should.

i think bringing back the old bulbs is alright though. a lot of oaps for example need the old ones cos the majority of energy saving bulbs take forever to get going.

and i dont think it was officially decided til this year that the old ones would be taken out of production.

a lot of oaps for example need the old ones cos the majority of energy saving bulbs take forever to get going.

Fuck 'em - they can wait like the rest of us. They go to bed when it gets dark anyway.

(and tbh I've never really found this to be much of a problem)

the eco-bulbs are worse but 1) w/r/t slowness: not as bad as they used to be, and 2) w/r/t the ugliness of the light... lampshades much?

on the other hand, lol at the idea that changing our lightbulbs will save the planet.

aargh my kingdom for a pack of screw in light bulbs which nowhere sells around here although everyone is quite happy to sell lamps with screw in fittings aaargh again

Try IKEA. They sell all kinds of weird lightbulbs. To fit their weird lightfittings.

I have a beautiful ecobulb that screws in and is like a huge orb and has so far lasted 4 years. It's seriously great. Cost a f-ing fortune though.

lol at the idea that changing our lightbulbs will save the planet.
Yeah, but no-one thinks this though do they? It's all cumulative innit. It's better than not doing it anyway.

Not to labour the point but the best thing about ecobulbs is where you have some kink in your wiring that leads to lots of bulbs blowing. We had this problem in our kitchen and the electrician told us to get ecobulbs because of that precise "warming up kind of thing they do" - never had to change the bulb since.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1192166/When-cleaner-wearing-outfit-isnt-time-reach-designer-labels-again.html

^^^this is some fucking next level biz

Wow, I could only get a part of the way through that horseshit.

Never thought I'd say this, but Daily Mail readers in the comments boxes below OTM.

this is obv standard mail get-the-adrenalin-going stuff but perhaps mistimed, to say the least.

i wonder if naomi knows tanya gold?

Never thought I'd say this, but Daily Mail readers in the comments boxes below OTM.

I have no idea to what extent they represent the readership - I suspect not that much by dint of the fact they're reading it on the internet - but they tend to actually be pretty quick to clown 'fuck poor people' pieces like this or anything that puts fashion/consumerism on a pedestal

^^^ This. Daily Mail comments box usually more sane than Have Your Say or the Graun one. Possibly due to it being liberal trolls as opposed to Tory trolls.

^beat me to it.

GAH. What an asshole, most people I know with a cleaner on the payroll can't stop 'handing down' bags of still-serviceable clothes, particularly if cleaner has kids. So it's reverse snobbery to say how cheap your clothes are, to people who have expensive clothes? OH BOO HOO HOO on your fake class war. The only time I do this is after a great score at the charity shop, such as the black Martin Margiela jacket I got for £5 or the black wool Ann Demeulemeester sweater for £3; suck on that you stupid Femail harpy.

Everyone I know stopped buying Primarché because it's made in sweatshops but the article doesn't mention that at all, LOL Mail.

Never thought I'd say this, but Daily Mail readers in the comments boxes below OTM.

Recently googled a local MP (Lib Dem MP Dr Evan Harris, should anyone wish to google it themselves) and found a vitriolic hate piece in the Daily Mail about how this terrible man supported abortion and stem cell research. To my surprise, most of the comments and all the ones with positive votes were either pro-Harris or at least questioning why the Mail had decided to run an attack on the guy apparently a propos of nothing.

Nothing has made me like an MP so much as seeing the Mail get angry about his mere existence.

These things (and their responses) do make me wonder whether Dacre's now pushed the Mail into deliberate liberal-winding-up self-parody.

Private Eye was saying that Rothermere and pretty much everyone at the Mail is getting pretty annoyed at how it's just a big incoherent vessel for Dacre's madness

You don't even need to be particularly liberal to find that piece idiotic, that's the thing.

As long as the Mail's circulation remains so remarkably constant, however, it's unlikely that Rothermere would be pushing Dacre out.

Too absurd; didn't read. Did give the cunts another page hit, though. Gaah.

Private Eye was saying that Rothermere and pretty much everyone at the Mail is getting pretty annoyed at how it's just a big incoherent vessel for Dacre's madness

Umm, not quite: it was more that they're pissed off he won't relinquish control. But that's not quite the same thing: not even Dacre is enough of a control freak to fill that thing full of such spectacular amounts of pish. Put it this way: it would be equally incoherent and loathsome -- possibly more so -- under all manner of different editors (one of the names mentioned in that PE piece in particular. Brrr).

pwned: http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/06/20/twitterers-claim-victory-over-loaded-daily-mail-gypsy-poll/

The UK-based Mail Online was forced to shut down one of its online polls yesterday after a concerted campaign by Twitter users and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists, nearly brought their servers to a halt with an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote.

The poll, which asked the somewhat leading question “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue”, attracted ridicule from many within the Twitter community leading to, at one point a 96% vote in favour of the proposition.

"Nearly brought their servers to a halt"?

Where is the evidence for that, journalism.co.uk?

and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists