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

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“I had thought that if I employed enough local people, got enough local students jobs and internships, spent £350 on a cashmere blanket in a Dulverton gift shop for my sister’s Christmas present, bought all my beauty products and candles in there too, that people would like me and accept me.”

Not the real Village People, Monday, 12 October 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link

http://current.com/1uk1i4c

James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link

You have to stick with that video for the bonkers paintings of Paul Dacre.

James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link

Liz Jones is responsible for many of the MMR scare stories in the Mail in recent years, so the more often she is pursued by shotgun wielding locals across Exmoor the better as far as I'm concerned.

Neil S, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link

'Celebrity journalism is nonsense' – tabloids duped in fake stories hoax

The Daily Mail was the only newspaper that was approached by the filmmakers but did not print any of their fabrications.

Alba, Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Some of Fleet Street's top newsrooms ‑ including those of the Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Star and Daily Express

Story falls down about here

Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Their next project is about bears. In woods.

Mark G, Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Some of Fleet Street's top newsrooms ‑ including and also those of the Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Star and Daily Express

fixed

a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link

(xpost) I bet those bears are illigal migrants...

a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link

xps
Somerset folk pissed off with portrayal as backward yokels fire shotgun at letterbox in revenge.

Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 15 October 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link

what the hell is going on in the comments?!

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 16 October 2009 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link

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Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link

:D

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 16 October 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

dowd, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link

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

A shame that J couldn't work in something about illegals and the prime mentalist.

James Mitchell, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link

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

dowd, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:31 (fourteen years ago) link

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

stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Call up and tell them you're Stephen Gateley.

Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link

That Gateley piece is appalling, poisonous conjecture.

chap, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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...

Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link

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"

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link

I need to complain to someone.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link

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!

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link

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

^^^^ AMAZING

Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link

THey just reprinted the article, haven't they?

Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Des Leppilen (darraghmac), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link

"The Motorcycle Diaries" instead?

Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link

which is shown regularly on Film 4 ..

mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link

the graduate was on itv this very week

it's like a Shark-Cage but for "Your Junk" AKA Your Penis & Balls (stevie), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link

so they are cunts about that one dudes death huh?

Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link

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

mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link

Yep, nailed concisely there.

Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link

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

ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link

aka, game recognise game

Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

"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.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link

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

stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link

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

stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link

first time i've seen this:

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

Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link


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