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#126 |
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I've been visiting another well known forum recently ( when DS was down) Im not a member but enjoy reading the threads.
One day I was on DM website and was reading an article and recognised some of the content. I then realised they had based a whole article on the thread I had been reading. I went back to do some digging and found this was not a one time event and it happened frequently. I could also tell, looking back at the threads, which "users" were posting to keep the conversation going and heading it in the way they desired. As much as I like DS, it would put me off posting and joining in conversation if I knew it was likely to be dressed up and used online for thousands of people to scrutinise |
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#127 |
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I've been visiting another well known forum recently ( when DS was down) Im not a member but enjoy reading the threads.
One day I was on DM website and was reading an article and recognised some of the content. I then realised they had based a whole article on the thread I had been reading. I went back to do some digging and found this was not a one time event and it happened frequently. I could also tell, looking back at the threads, which "users" were posting to keep the conversation going and heading it in the way they desired. As much as I like DS, it would put me off posting and joining in conversation if I knew it was likely to be dressed up and used online for thousands of people to scrutinise Are you sure that it was not the other way round, posters lifting stuff from the DM website? |
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#128 |
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I've been visiting another well known forum recently ( when DS was down) Im not a member but enjoy reading the threads.
One day I was on DM website and was reading an article and recognised some of the content. I then realised they had based a whole article on the thread I had been reading. I went back to do some digging and found this was not a one time event and it happened frequently. I could also tell, looking back at the threads, which "users" were posting to keep the conversation going and heading it in the way they desired. As much as I like DS, it would put me off posting and joining in conversation if I knew it was likely to be dressed up and used online for thousands of people to scrutinise |
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#129 |
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Are you sure that it was not the other way round, posters lifting stuff from the DM website?
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#130 |
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Why does it need defending, their website is one of the most viewed in the world. If I were in charge, i'd be quite happy as clearly lots of people like it.
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Who is Richard Littleton? I know Richard Littlejohn but he is far from being an excellent columnist.
He's a male version of Katie Hopkins. Extremist, dim, excels at misinformed trolling and doesn't understand the meaning of research. It's good that they're both employed by the DM to maintain their standards. |
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I agree. Does he have any journalism qualifications?
He's a male version of Katie Hopkins. Extremist, dim, excels at misinformed trolling and doesn't understand the meaning of research. It's good that they're both employed by the DM to maintain their standards. https://s30.postimg.org/f5udcu9oh/hatie_cockpins.jpg |
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#132 |
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Katie Hopkins' alter ego Hatie Cockpins in Viz comic Feb 2016
https://s30.postimg.org/f5udcu9oh/hatie_cockpins.jpg
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#133 |
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Katie Hopkins' alter ego Hatie Cockpins in Viz comic Feb 2016
https://s30.postimg.org/f5udcu9oh/hatie_cockpins.jpg I was listening to her on LBC the other day and she really has become a parody of herself. |
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#134 |
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Richard Littleton is an excellent columnist. It is amusing to see a person who uses the particular swearword attributed to him in your post thinks themselves superior to a daily mail reader.
In any case the web site and printed paper are quite different. Littlejohn is indisputably a prize prick. Hopkins clearly has realised that you can make a very nice living of spewing hateful shite that you don't actually believe in; Littlejohn has no such awareness and is just a tosser. |
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#135 |
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The Daily Mail sells a lot of newspapers and gets a lot of visitors to their website. Meanwhile newspapers like the Guardian are drowning in red ink. And yet the Guardian are absolutely convinced they're right and the Mail is wrong.
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#136 |
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The Daily Mail sells a lot of newspapers and gets a lot of visitors to their website. Meanwhile newspapers like the Guardian are drowning in red ink. And yet the Guardian are absolutely convinced they're right and the Mail is wrong.
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