Why do so many folks ridicule the Daily Mail?

Because I KNOW what rubbish it is, from a previous job... I've seen how things were twisted out of shape.

Happens with most newspapers to an extent as most papers have their own angle they wish to push (sorry journo posters!) but the Daily Wail is special.
 
Spudlet said:
The carcinogenic spread of doom is coming to get yoooooooou...
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PMSL.....and here was me thinking Nutella was the baddie :p

Seriously though....I head that peanut butter was part of a conspiracy to kill Diana.... :eek:

I can't bring myself to read the Daily Mail - it's not good for my blood pressure! I once got so annoyed with it I threw a copy out the bus window...before getting so guilty about littering, I hot-footed it off at the next stop and put it in a proper receptacle :o
 
When my eldest daughter started walking (about 9 months), she toppled forward (as they do) but unlike normal children, she cried and passed out. Her eyes rolled up into her head, she went limp and blue lipped. In the next breath, she was back with me, very white and very sleepy.

We went to hospital, they saw no problem and sent us home. Every time she was in pain (and not necessarily severe pain), the same thing would happen. After numerous visits to the doctor, he agreed with my Mum that I was a paranoid first time mother (until my mother actually saw and episode and went into full on panic).

The DM printed an article in their Health section that a friend drew my attention to. There was a child in there who suffered the exact same symptoms as my child.
So, after about 18 months of these episodes, I went to the doctor clutching the article.
Lo and behold, I wasn't a neurotic Mum after all and my girl was sent for quite distressing tests.
She was diagnosed with RAS, which is when the heart stops momentarily due to excessive activity of the vagus nerve.

7 months after the diagnosis, she had an accident that required an operation. Had I not been in a position to alert the doctor, she could've died as they would have carried out her procedure with her sitting up, which causes a problem with blood flow to the heart.

So, I thank the DM for alerting me to a little known medical condition that is very rarely, if ever seen in the press.

Yes, you very often have to sort the wheat from the chaff but anybody with a modicum of intelligence should be able to manage that.

I'd rather read the DM than a paper with breasts and a barely covered minge in it.

I think the best thing the Times did was go tabloid. It can be quite awkward wrestling with a broadsheet. I alternate between the Times and the DM, depending on what day it is.
 
They do exagerate some storys ...Shock car tax to rise by 300% sort of thingLOL however they and the sun do support our troops report animal cruelty and upset the hand wringing po faced leftys .... :D
 
quirky said:
When my eldest daughter started walking (about 9 months), she toppled forward (as they do) but unlike normal children, she cried and passed out. Her eyes rolled up into her head, she went limp and blue lipped. In the next breath, she was back with me, very white and very sleepy.

We went to hospital, they saw no problem and sent us home. Every time she was in pain (and not necessarily severe pain), the same thing would happen. After numerous visits to the doctor, he agreed with my Mum that I was a paranoid first time mother (until my mother actually saw and episode and went into full on panic).

The DM printed an article in their Health section that a friend drew my attention to. There was a child in there who suffered the exact same symptoms as my child.
So, after about 18 months of these episodes, I went to the doctor clutching the article.
Lo and behold, I wasn't a neurotic Mum after all and my girl was sent for quite distressing tests.
She was diagnosed with RAS, which is when the heart stops momentarily due to excessive activity of the vagus nerve.

7 months after the diagnosis, she had an accident that required an operation. Had I not been in a position to alert the doctor, she could've died as they would have carried out her procedure with her sitting up, which causes a problem with blood flow to the heart.

So, I thank the DM for alerting me to a little known medical condition that is very rarely, if ever seen in the press.

Yes, you very often have to sort the wheat from the chaff but anybody with a modicum of intelligence should be able to manage that.

I'd rather read the DM than a paper with breasts and a barely covered minge in it.

I think the best thing the Times did was go tabloid. It can be quite awkward wrestling with a broadsheet. I alternate between the Times and the DM, depending on what day it is.
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I am really glad the DM helped you and I hope your daughter is doing well. I also hope your post has silenced all those complaining about its status as a "newspaper."

I remember when it published a story about healthy racehorses being slaughtered at a British abattoir. One member thought they were lying!! Look at this: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=232858 You couldn't make some of those responses up!
 
Having worked in a TV news company and supplying news aerial footage from our helicopters (all paid for by the major channels) that one news story will have a different write up in each and every publication and TV channel. As the helicopter camera op the real story is normally far to boring to publish, hence the dramatisation and variations from every different news media available.

They have to sell stories to make money as they are in a very competitive business.
 
andraste said:
Mostly because it is an odious, scaremongering daily propaganda pamphlet that masquerades as a newspaper.

It is Jeremy Kyle in printed form.
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dont blame the mail or Jeremy Kyle they only showcase the worst of British society, Most problems are a product of poor education, discipline,lack of oppertunity for people to better themselves and the welfare state traping people in a downward spiral of dependency.... you need to look at the sort of nuts who read or write in the guardian for the people to blame .. not the mail or it's readers...
 
Because I've seen them print total lies about a friend of mine, and ruthlessly smear her reputation because an editor there disliked her.

Because I know they've lifted articles and recipes wholesale from other publications, even to the extent of replicating errors. (Again, I know the people to whom this has happened, and the Mail were unrepentant)

Because they can't write an article without referring to the value of a house.

Because they had, in recent years, a rule that you couldn't photograph women wearing trousers. They all had to be in skirts and dresses. And yes, my source for that one is good (someone who worked there), though they may have changed policy since then.
 
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perfect11s said:
dont blame the mail or Jeremy Kyle they only showcase the worst of British society, Most problems are a product of poor education, discipline,lack of oppertunity for people to better themselves and the welfare state traping people in a downward spiral of dependency.... you need to look at the sort of nuts who read or write in the guardian for the people to blame .. not the mail or it's readers...
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I see your point but ask yourself why these people are being showcased then. In general, ridiculing those with complex social problems is not a productive step towards helping them.

Neither the DM or Jeremy Kyle have any real interest in helping the people they exploit or solving any long term problems. They exploit them for financial gain by sensationalising any issue they can.
 
Probably because it is on a par with the Beano on a good day. Other words come to mind like racist, homophobic, sexist i will stop now before i fill the page.
 
chestnut cob said:
CC, have you seen the "Daily Mail list of things that give you cancer" on Facebook? My sister showed it to me, absolutely hilarious! :D

ETA - ignore me, I've now read the rest of the thread!

To answer the OP.. the DM is a load of hysterical bigoted nonsense!
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Yes it sure is VERY difficult to do all the right things to avoid the big C..`spec as it change4s every day.No room for food..just pills.:eek:
 
Gingerwitch said:
As above really - many posts on here pour derision over the Daily Mail, especially when it refers to any kind of animial story.

Why?
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If you have to ask its generally a good indicator that your opinion on most things should be ignored.
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*disclaimer, tongue is firmly in cheek.

*sort of

* :p
 
quirky said:
Yes, you very often have to sort the wheat from the chaff but anybody with a modicum of intelligence should be able to manage that.
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I'm very glad that it helped you with your daughter's condition but the problem is that a lot of people who read it don't have the intelligence to disregard the scaremongering, racist, completely bloody fabricated chaff.

There are many other newspapers that don't feature minges. :p
 
The DM is alright, and has been involved is some useful campaigning.

I just WISH it would lay off its obsession with ghastly nonentities like Simon Cowell, Kate Moss, Cheryl Cole and that odious child Suri Cruise :mad::mad:
 
Daffodil said:
The DM is alright, and has been involved is some useful campaigning.

I just WISH it would lay off its obsession with ghastly nonentities like Simon Cowell, Kate Moss, Cheryl Cole and that odious child Suri Cruise :mad::mad:
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sadly the publics obsession with these famous for being famous people sell papers which is the name of the game in the end...
 
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