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Mary Ellen Synon

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  • 11-05-2009 10:28pm
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    Iwasfrozen
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    Does, anyone here regularly read her opinion page in the Daily Mail ?
    If so, what apart from Eurosepticism is her political position ? It seems to me the entire Daily Mail is biased towards anti-EU polices.


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    ART6
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    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Does, anyone here regularly read her opinion page in the Daily Mail ?
    If so, what apart from Eurosepticism is her political position ? It seems to me the entire Daily Mail is biased towards anti-EU polices.

    I do read her column since although I don't always agree with her, she does seem to do her research before going to print. The Mail may well be anti-Europe to some extent, but it's a newspaper. It publishes things that it believes will appeal to its target audience. Since its circulation suggests it is clearly successful in that, then a significant number of people in Ireland would appear to be Eurosceptics perhaps?

    *flamethrowers please note that I don't say "all" Mail readers are*


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    Scofflaw
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    ART6 wrote: »
    I do read her column since although I don't always agree with her, she does seem to do her research before going to print. The Mail may well be anti-Europe to some extent, but it's a newspaper. It publishes things that it believes will appeal to its target audience. Since its circulation suggests it is clearly successful in that, then a significant number of people in Ireland would appear to be Eurosceptics perhaps?

    *flamethrowers please note that I don't say "all" Mail readers are*

    That doesn't follow at all, even with the proviso!

    Certainly, newspapers do go to a good extent with what sells - the Daily Mail, for example, is campaigning for the HPV vaccine here and against it in the UK. However, my sister regularly reads the Mail, and she's an avid europhile - she reads it for the celeb stuff. Similarly, great numbers of eurosceptics read the IT.

    So, a newspaper certainly sells itself on its content, but that doesn't mean that people read it for the totality of its content, or have any agreement whatsoever with its political messages - that's always been the value of newspapers in politics, that they don't just preach to the converted.

    cordially,
    Scofflaw


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    WooPeeA
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    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Does, anyone here regularly read her opinion page in the Daily Mail ?
    I don't even touch that rubbish.


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    evercloserunion
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    It's wrong to categorize people as Euroskeptics even if they read the Mail for its anti-EU content. Most of them are just ordinary, ideologically unaligned and, admittedly, slightly gullible individuals sucked in by the DM's sensationalist headlines. Hell, if I believed half the rubbish spouted by the DM I'd be a Euroskeptic myself.

    Anyway, I'm a big fan of Danial Hannan's blog, even though he's a right-wing Tory Euroskeptic.


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