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Defend the Daily Mail...
I'm really interested if anyone here can defend the journalism of the Daily Mail without using the word 'Guardian'.
It's a bit like trying to argue that Terminator 2 is better than The Terminator without using the word "effects". |
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i cannot defend the indefensible.
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The website is very good.
Hitler built good roads... |
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They have a successful formula that almost always works despite being very well known.
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Without mentioning the other paper?
Okay, both papers can sometimes feature decent articles from time to time. Quite often they're both guilty of terrible news articles, but not always. |
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The Mail is good at revealing abuses of power and corruption.
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The Mail is good at revealing abuses of power and corruption.
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Well, why not mention the Guardian, the comments online seem obsessive about the people who read the paper.?
The Daily Mail, seems to focus more on show business type news and people posing for rather sad looking pictures because their hamster did not live to three score and ten. |
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The Daily Mail is better than a lump of shit.
Oh, wait...... |
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Sideboob
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They're good at getting people who supposedly dislike the paper, reading it.
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Some of their natural world photography and articles are good.
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For such an unpopular publication, it's truly astounding how many people read it !
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1) Print inflammatory nonsense that people will agree with and disagree with strongly in equal measure to maximise hits on ad-infested website. Disregard concepts such as "research", "fact checking" and "not giving that c*nt richard littlejohn a job".
2) Hire people to go around forums and facebook posting links to said website. 3) ?? 4) Profit. |
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If you want to know how a lot of Brits think take a look.
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For such an unpopular publication, it's truly astounding how many people read it !
plus you can verbally abuse a few strangers in passing. |
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They're good at getting people who supposedly dislike the paper, reading it.
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If you want to know how a lot of Brits think take a look.
Similarly, plenty of posters will also say that they refuse, on principle, to open the Sun and then, strangely, be happy to give links to The Times. Ditto they're probably not that interested that Fox wants to buy Sky and if that's successful they'll continue to pay for Sky and abhor the Sun. And yet, it's amusing that the contents/topics of DS threads is very similar to the content of something like the DM. So I reckon the "I would never open the DM" comments repeats are either BS, virtue-signalling or laziness. |
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I'm really interested if anyone here can defend the journalism of the Daily Mail without using the word 'Guardian'.
It's a bit like trying to argue that Terminator 2 is better than The Terminator without using the word "effects". It's brilliant!
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For such an unpopular publication, it's truly astounding how many people read it !
It is much easier to find articles on the DM website than the majority of its competitors |
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The website has the best pictures of the Royal Family. For real. It's basically a comic book.
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I like the Mail, it's views generally chime with my own. However, their obsessions with 'sideboob' (WTF?) and 'toned legs' etc is getting out of control. They've also started featuring far too many 'spot the wally' type puzzles and optical illusions. These things remind me of the comics of my youth.
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The DM's advice column is very useful if you need to know how to stop white cat hairs from showing on your black shirt.
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They usually have really great pictures featured in their articles.
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The DM appears to be the paper that people love to hate, particularly on here. It seems to make them feel somewhat superior.
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