[bart4858]

What happened to the Daily Sport?

It used to be a challenge trying to find a single page without any titillating pictures or stories.

[wonkeydonkey]

Originally Posted by Enfant Terrible

I tend to read a wide variety of papers online but stuff like the Daily Star? I mean - who on earth reads that? It's very inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, isn't it?

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I think the Star is largely off the hook because people don't care about it. Run on a micro-budget, full of cut and pastes from other papers and dirt-cheap sub-z-list nano-interviews, it hardly counts as a newspaper at all. It is very rarely quoted on DS GD, though it IS sometimes quoted in the Big Brother forum, as it is the last UK paper regularly to carry BB stories; unfortunately they are invariably quite wrong.

[Regis Magnae]

Originally Posted by bart4858

What happened to the Daily Sport?

It used to be a challenge trying to find a single page without any titillating pictures or stories.

Hasn't it gone bust?

Not that it was really a newspaper.

[Aaron.Bishop]

The Daily Star.

[Enfant Terrible]

Originally Posted by wonkeydonkey

I think the Star is largely off the hook because people don't care about it. Run on a micro-budget, full of cut and pastes from other papers and dirt-cheap sub-z-list nano-interviews, it hardly counts as a newspaper at all. It is very rarely quoted on DS GD, though it IS sometimes quoted in the Big Brother forum, as it is the last UK paper regularly to carry BB stories; unfortunately they are invariably quite wrong.

Indeed, which is why I am surprised it came third in this poll, considering how many Guardian-haters there are on here. I guess they all post in Politics nowadays and never saw this poll in the first place.

My favourite newspaper only got one vote, I must be doing something right then. (And no, it's not the People )

[ishina]

Originally Posted by Porcupine

This is what I dont understand. Why read it if its 'horrifying and awful' ? Why go to the site, why continue reading, why come here to slag it off ?

I personally like the Mail. I go online in my lunch hour to read the showbiz gossip. I buy it on the weekend as it contains good crosswords, receipes and Liz Jones (who I love to hate).

I get sick of people slagging it off. If you dont like it, dont read it.

Stop the thread. Porcupine has JUDGED.

[zx50]

The Daily Mail's fairly taking the lead.

[Enfant Terrible]

Originally Posted by ishina

Stop the thread. Porcupine has JUDGED.

Perfectly illustrated my earlier point though - showbizz gossip and reading about people they love to hate, in this case Liz Jones.

Celeb bikinis + hate = success formula. Highly depressing but true.

[Superbass]

Do The Observer and The Independent have no votes because nobody reads them, or they're aren't offensive?

[Gravitas]

It just goes to prove the staggering amount of Dailymailophobia around.

41% voted the Mail (for example) yet only 8% voted for the vastly inferior "poor man's Mail" - The Express.

People can't think straight for their illogical hatred.

[Martin Phillp]

Too easy to vote for The Mail, as much as the copy is complete crap, it's a well produced and targeted rag.

I went for the Daily Express with it's pisspoor imitation. If I had another vote, it'd go to the Independent.

[pickwick]

Originally Posted by Gravitas

It just goes to prove the staggering amount of Dailymailophobia around.

41% voted the Mail (for example) yet only 8% voted for the vastly inferior "poor man's Mail" - The Express.

People can't think straight for their illogical hatred.

Express is full of crap but mostly harmless, Mail is full of crap and pretty harmful. Logic!

[tenofspades]

as much as I'd like to say the sun it does have some light-hearted articles. So I'd say the Daily Star, or the Express.

[KJ44]

Originally Posted by Hugh Jboobs

As if the populous of DS will return any other verdict than The Daily Mail or The Sun.

Just the ones with big families I suppose.

[KJ44]

I think The Metro should be on the list. I love it, it's just the principle.

[KJ44]

Originally Posted by Martin Phillp

Too easy to vote for The Mail, as much as the copy is complete crap, it's a well produced and targeted rag.

I went for the Daily Express with it's pisspoor imitation.

Too right. At least the DM knows how to make a successful website and make headlines about things other than, well, you-know-who.

I like the Indy and I really like "i" though.

[Bluemotel]

Originally Posted by Superbass

Do The Observer and The Independent have no votes because nobody reads them, or they're aren't offensive?

A bit of both maybe ? I've not read the Indy for a couple of years and the Observer for much longer. Some 'papers do seem to inspire a rather knee jerk reaction, linked as much to the 'paper's past as present. I'm possibly the same at times, a certain proprietor is not my favourite guy at the moment !!

I wonder, are enough 'papers read to acheive a realistic spread of votes ?

[Enfant Terrible]

Originally Posted by pickwick

Express is full of crap but mostly harmless, Mail is full of crap and pretty harmful. Logic!

I was following that logic as well...and I can't remember the last time I picked up a copy of the Express, or indeed if I ever have.

Is that the one where they keep regurgitating endless Diana stories?

Or is that the Star?

[KJ44]

Having argued that the Daily Express is the worst, I voted DM just to deny it even that amount of attention.

[Glenn A]

The Daily Star, as it is just mindrot with endless exclusives about a reality show everyone gave up on years earlier and the usual X Factor, Cheryl Cole, Kerry Katona nonsense that must strike a chord with its readers. However, for all this is an awful newspaper with hardly any real news, it is far less dangerous than The Sun which mixes Daily Star type news with reporting that is grossly untrue and resorts to hacking people's phones.

[Unigal07]

The Sun. None of the others come close to its scumminess.

[KJ44]

Originally Posted by Unigal07

The Sun. None of the others come close to its scumminess.

Fair comment from a football fan.

[Gravitas]

Originally Posted by pickwick

Express is full of crap but mostly harmless, Mail is full of crap and pretty harmful. Logic!

That just isn't true though is it. You are blinded by your hatred of The Mail and the decent law abiding people who buy it.

[kimotag]

Daily mail, because people actually take it seriously, unlike the Sun and Star which everyone knows are a joke.

[pickwick]

Originally Posted by Enfant Terrible

I was following that logic as well...and I can't remember the last time I picked up a copy of the Express, or indeed if I ever have.

Is that the one where they keep regurgitating endless Diana stories?

Or is that the Star?

The Express definitely does, I have no idea about the Star! Hasn't made it on to my radar in a while.