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Old 03-01-2017, 09:56
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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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Old 03-01-2017, 10:21
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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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Old 03-01-2017, 13:31
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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
It would happen regularly on the BBC pov message board.
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:47
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Are you sure that it was not the other way round, posters lifting stuff from the DM website?
No no. It is well known the Mail use many Reddit threads as the basis or indeed the actual story.
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Old 03-01-2017, 14:12
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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.
Because It's crammed with popular celebrity gossip. Popularity doesn't equal quality.

Who is Richard Littleton? I know Richard Littlejohn but he is far from being an excellent columnist.
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.
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Old 03-01-2017, 14:33
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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.
Katie Hopkins' alter ego Hatie Cockpins in Viz comic Feb 2016

https://s30.postimg.org/f5udcu9oh/hatie_cockpins.jpg
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Old 03-01-2017, 16:34
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Katie Hopkins' alter ego Hatie Cockpins in Viz comic Feb 2016

https://s30.postimg.org/f5udcu9oh/hatie_cockpins.jpg
Good old Viz.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:00
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Katie Hopkins' alter ego Hatie Cockpins in Viz comic Feb 2016

https://s30.postimg.org/f5udcu9oh/hatie_cockpins.jpg
Splendid stuff.

I was listening to her on LBC the other day and she really has become a parody of herself.
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Old 03-01-2017, 17:25
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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.
I didn't say anything about the readership. All sorts read newspapers, each to their own.

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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Old 03-01-2017, 18:14
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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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Old 03-01-2017, 19:21
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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.
Popularity is no measure of quality. The inexplicable box office figures of the transformers movies is proof of that.
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