Man this is a hard one. I can only comment as far as the Mail Online because I wouldn't give them the steam off my piss with regard to paying for the paper copy, nor want to pay for yesterdays news. I'm going to be a little sick in my mouth whilst I type this out. Ok.. Good things:
They are pretty quick at picking up breaking news and putting up some kind of story whilst the BBC may be still stuck at "ticker" stage or just one paragraph.
Their website doesn't bitch about me running an adblocker. It's actually quite pleasing on the eye without the border adverts.
They do a good job at bringing together all news topics from the low brow to the high brow in one easy to find place.
They bring stories to my attention that I can then search for elsewhere to find out what really happened
They help me prepare for how to interact with society and the hard of thinking whom see a DM headline and believe it.
It's so bad, it's almost good.
/sarcasm on
I wouldn't have known that "a headline must always be taken in context with the story" (the Daily Mail's own words when challenged about misleading headlines, usually where the headline states something as a fact but then at the very end of the article it's qualified as an opinion, a "could", "is likely" or "maybe").
I would never have known that "curvy" is interchangeable with fat and "slim" is interchangeable with anorexic depending if they like you or not.
Without a daily visit to the Mail Online I would not know which Z-list celebs had been to buy a coffee, cake or avoid a puddle.
I would never have known what that little plastic triangle in the middle of a pizza box is for.
I wouldn't know the answer to whatever silly puzzle is sending the Internet "into meltdown".
I wouldn't have known that you can assess someone's entire state of mind and level of unhappiness/happiness from a pap photo and write 3 pages of total conjecture and speculation from it.
I wouldn't be able to keep up to date on whatever the latest uproar is from the permanently offended on social media (I don't use any, forums being my one exception).
I wouldn't know which celebs careers are falling so hard they have their agents paying the DM for promotion.
I wouldn't have learned how to pull a 10/10 sad face.
I wouldn't have known that professional journalistic trolling was a thing.
I wouldn't have known that vote rigging in comments was a thing.
I wouldn't have nown that duplicate paragraphs and typo's are nothing to be ashamed of.
I wouldn't have nown that duplicate paragraphs and typo's are nothing to be ashamed of.
/sarcasm off