The Daily Mail

its a total gossip rag - great fun though.. didja see the priceless story about the welsh roadsign?
 
+ a million Bill.

I made a similar comment the other week. In fact it's worse than the Sun in some ways because it's actually more insidious. The Sun with their "Bloody frogs" type headlines cannot be taken on anything other than a superficial level even by the biggest knuckleheads - can it?!

The DM tries to rationalise their racism and venom against 'immigrant welfare cheats' etc by quoting dubious statistics etc. It's probably more homophobic than the sun too.

The worst thing is, considering it has a palpable anti-Irish angle a lot of the time, people still buy the Irish Daily Mail over here with it's token 20% or so "Paddy content"
 
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The worst thing is, considering it has a palpable anti-Irish angle a lot of the time, people still buy the Irish Daily Mail over here with it's token 20% or so "Paddy content"
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The other 80% evenly distributed between immigrants who rape and stab, Princess Diana and shock stories about [insert common household item/food] causes cancer.

Horrible rag.

Mind I remember not too long ago the wonderful contradiction between the Irish (sic) and the UK edition. The UK edition ran a campagin against the UK Government for providing the Cervical Cancer Vaccine to young girls, because they felt it would promote sexual activity and further the case for broken britain. Indeed it still runs false stories stating that the vaccine is killing girls (it isn't). And the Irish (sic) version? Well on the exact same day it ran a campaign against the Irish Government for not providing the vaccine, saying that all these young girls are being left to die from cancer.
 
Without getting into the whole public service work to rule debate, why can they not write a paragraph on the subject without referring to union 'firebrands' or 'militants' or 'ransom?' I glanced at the cover of todays edition earlier and it's nothing but blatant agenda-driven scaremongering.

And don't get me started on the other things about the rag that have been mentioned by posters in this thread.:mad:
 
Other than that from the DM's perspective, the Sindo would be vulgar, practically pornographic with it's vaguely 'glam' aspect.
 
Bill Struth said:
What an absolute rag of a 'newspaper.'

The Sun without the porn.
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Totally agree. Best thread ever. Detest the Daily Heil. My mam keeps buying it because it is cheap even though I try to tell her it is an anti Irish paper and she is not to buy it. She buys it because it is a euro.

Remember when Stephen Gately died and one of their "journalists" did a horrible article about him. They were smart enough not to put it in the Irish Version, smarmy yokes.

My ex-boss was a character. He would go mad if he saw a red top paper on anyones desk. We had a temp English lady who was mad into the soaps and would rush out to buy the sun to see what happened in Eastenders. My boss caught sight of the rag and said "no red tops in here" - she didn't have a clue what he was on about. It was priceless.
 
I read it online. Richard Littlejohn's column about lining 'em all up against the wall and shooting 'em is worth a read. OK the paper is crap. But the middle income, home counties brigade that buy it, love to be frightened by ...... cancer scares, immigrant scares, homosexual scares, Jordan's plastic surgery scares, Posh's varicose vein scare (or was it bunnions?), armies of dole-seeking eastern Europeans waiting for the next Ryanair free flight offer etc. It is heading the way of The National Iquirer/The Onion/ Globe and Beano etc. But you get a laugh from it. About the safest columnist is Joe Higgins - and he's way out there. They have lots of quizzes, Soduko, Crosswords and as far as I know a cartoon page. Easy reading in the airport/train station. But, nevertheless, CRAP.
 
My wife buys the Daily Mail most Saturdays (otherwise periodically). Admittedly it's low-rent but I like the 'It's a Knockout' political coverage.
 
Hah! They say the TRUTH hurts and the mail prints a lot that is true about goings on in Ireland and long may they continue. It hasa fantastic sports coverage, a great TV magazine, a free glossy magazine, an exemplary health section every week that should be approved reading.

Its only €1.00. And may I remind a few it was the ONLY paper to run a feature about an ex MOD.

And best of all it ignores Dublin. I love it.

noah

ps to compare to a red top shows ......
 
michaelm said:
My wife buys the Daily Mail most Saturdays (otherwise periodically). Admittedly it's low-rent but I like the 'It's a Knockout' political coverage.
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She buys it on a saturday for the mag as I do from time to time. If they are putting the papers away I sometimes ask for magazine only. My mom likes the magazine on Sunday so it's often bought for her.
 
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