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Boards hatred of The Daily Mail

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  • #52
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    I've noticed a lot of abuse directed at the daily mail on boards.

    I know they write some rubbish but so do a lot of newspapers.

    What is it exactly about the Daily Mail that you hate?
    no, the Daily Mail takes it to a whole new level


  • #53
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,347 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Pete M. wrote: »
    Xenophobic and Racist?

    You seem confused, surely you should only be one or the other?

    On one hand, you're afraid of foreigners, but you think that other races are inferior?

    That may come from reading this paper.
    It actually reduces your ability to act or think intelligently IMHO


    Nah, he just fears inferior races


  • #54
    B0X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭B0X


    TheIrishGrover wrote: »
    Nah, he just fears inferior races

    Yeah, coming over here, diluting his gene pool.


  • #55
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    The Daily Express is worse though.


  • #56
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Dudess wrote: »
    The Daily Express is worse though.
    Is that the paper that worships Diana?


  • #57
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    OP, you wouldn't happen to be a journalist by any chance? I ask because only a journalist would be naive enough to ask that question.


  • #58
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Dudess wrote: »
    The Daily Express is worse though.

    Especially in recent years it has been doing the damndest to out mail the mail.
    phasers wrote: »
    Is that the paper that worships Diana?
    And Madel Madeleine


  • #59
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    What is it exactly about the Daily Mail that you hate?

    I'm not familiar with the Irish version, because they don't appear to have bothered with a website, but the UK version is pretty unpleasant. Any publication which boasts such bigoted cúnts as Richard Littlejohn, Peter Hitchens, Melanie Philips and Jan Moir on the payroll deserves to be hated.


  • #60
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yeah, the Irish edition is fairly tame - very tame actually - compared to the UK one.


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  • #61
    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    As far as I can see, there's not much to choose between the Mail and the Express. The Sun, Mirror and the Star aren't exactly high-brow papers, but unlike the Mail and Express they don't pretend that they are. I do look at the headlines of the Daily Mail, but otherwise I just ignore it, and so should everyone else.


  • #62
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    Anyone remember when the 24 hour drinking laws were coming into effect in the UK and the daily mail ran a campaign on how much it would make things worse. Then when nothing got worse you never heard of it again.

    I must say though I prefer to read the Daily Maily over most papers as they usuall have a few interesting articles compared with other papers.


  • #63
    Truley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    Sleipnir wrote: »
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231150/Mapping-strain-NHS-How-London-hospital-ward-treated-babies-72-different-nations-world.html

    Oh yeah, nothing wrong with that! :eek:

    :eek: wow, just... wow. that is terrifying.


  • #64
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,284 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Sometimes the truth is terrifying.

    Anyway, I'd love if boards could do a check on all the links posted on this website over the last whenever and see which news source came out on top?

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Mail, which really would throw a spanner in the works for all those anti Mailites;)


  • #65
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,347 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    mikom wrote: »
    Their poor coverage of pick-up-artist news stories.

    Oh no, is that THAT guy!? Hahaha


  • #66
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    walshb wrote: »
    Sometimes the truth is terrifying.

    Anyway, I'd love if boards could do a check on all the links posted on this website over the last whenever and see which news source came out on top?

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Mail, which really would throw a spanner in the works for all those anti Mailites;)

    It probably would be the most popular source for After Hours - Ranting and Raving of course too.


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  • #67
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Thomas828 wrote: »
    The Sun, Mirror and the Star aren't exactly high-brow papers, but unlike the Mail and Express they don't pretend that they are.

    This is what makes the latter so insidious. Many Sun readers know deep down that what theyre reading is really just a pile of shyte (They just buy it for the football/titties/free telly mag) Mail readers tend to accept it hook line and sinker.
    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    I must say though I prefer to read the Daily Maily over most papers as they usuall have a few interesting articles .

    Have you ever tried playboy :pac:


  • #68
    Truley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    walshb wrote: »
    Sometimes the truth is terrifying.

    Thanks but I don't need a newspaper to tell me what should be scary or not.

    I can agree that the Daily Mail is tripe but, to be honest, I strongly believe that all news is propaganda to some extent. I don't see the RTE news as any different from Eastenders or the Simpsons. It's all a business at the end of the day and it's a shame more people don't see that. Real information is something that you should seek out for yourself not something that is spoon fed to you.


  • #69
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Thomas828 wrote: »
    The Sun, Mirror and the Star aren't exactly high-brow papers, but unlike the Mail and Express they don't pretend that they are.

    The Sindo pretends that it's a proper newspaper too, when in fact it's as tabloid, fictional and biased-opinionated as it comes.


  • #70
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Just saw an ad there for the Daily Mail saying it who represents:

    White Middle Class Nuclear family- anything else is abhorrent and tries to wreck this ideal family unit!!!


  • #71
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Some of us dislike the Daily star too.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055819098


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  • #72
    Ridley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,229 ✭✭✭Ridley


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfV3OuN57Bk


    Pretty much covers it (along with this and Brooker's Daily Mail island). May offend certain et ceteras but you could just skip to the 47th second and pause.

    Not that they're the only offenders, they're just more blatent about it.


  • #73
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    It's the tabloid of choice for your thinking man's ignoramus.

    I remember their front page headlines during the nineties. To say they tried to incite hatred against the Irish is a bit of an understatement. They're no different to the Sun and others of their ilk. But they masquerade as a serious paper to the common garden racist as it doesn't have a red top.


  • #74
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Plenty of reasons to avoid that rag outlined over the past 5 pages, another one being their contnued employment of that odious bint Mary Ellen Synon


  • #75
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Because it is a confusing paper.

    Hands up if you are for and / or against cervical cancer vaccinations :rolleyes:

    http://biasandbelief.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/daily-mail-campaigning-both-for-and-against-vaccination/


  • #76
    brendansmith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭brendansmith


    Good writers, great paper


  • #77
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    1) Boards is big enough to have a sizeable chunk of posters who hate anything you can name.

    2) Why buy foreign papers?


  • #78
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    'COULD RUSSELL BRAND GIVE THE MEMORY OF DIANA DIABETES?'

    I for one say yes


  • #79
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    69 wrote: »
    Why buy foreign papers?

    But... It has Irish in the title! :P

    I seldom buy papers anyway! 'tinternet & Telly for all the news.


  • #80
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    Because the Daily Mail is very right-wing and most people nowadays would be more left-wing. That's really all there is to it.


  • #81
    Trashbat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 489 ✭✭Trashbat


    OctavarIan wrote: »
    Because the Daily Mail is very right-wing and most people nowadays would be more left-wing. That's really all there is to it.

    Judging by our current voting trends we are certainly not Left wing, nor could we be considered more left wing than we were previously.

    What we are is more socially liberal and tolerant and have no place for their inflamatory rightwing claptrap.

    The Mail is one of the most manipulative media outlets as it specifically targets its articles to infuriate it more extreme readers.

    The Jan Moir article is a prime example, with a dileberate effort to court controversy. Any decent sub would have ripped that apart before letting it go to print, but the mail actively seek to infuriate.


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  • #82
    Bill-e
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Bill-e


    I like how they've set up their website.

    Pitty about the content.


  • #83
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Moral of all this is: if you don't want to read a load of complete shíte in the papers, dont buy a tabloid.


  • #84
    AttackThePoster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭AttackThePoster


    Trashbat wrote: »
    Judging by our current voting trends we are certainly not Left wing, nor could we be considered more left wing than we were previously.

    :confused:


  • #85
    Irish Halo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,485 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    AttackThePoster wrote: »
    :confused:
    FF the party in power is centre-right hence the "our current voting trends we are certainly not Left wing"

    Also the labour movement was very important in Irish political history less so now therefore "nor could we be considered more left wing than we were previously".

    Daily Mail writes stories designed to induce fear in the white middle class of the UK (well those who think they are middle class). Why any self respecting Irish person would buy the "localised" version of a paper which actively attacked the country for most of its history confuses me. Or is historical context a waste of time?


  • #86
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    This thread has given me diabetes


  • #87
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    It has a conservative bias which attracts the kind of people that are ready to get mad about anything that is not perceived as normal. Similar enough to the likes of Joe Duffy. It attracts mobs and craves the mob mentality. It wouldn't be for me because I disagree with their views, their leanings and the way they try and dish up hate and fear. It is at best theatre and at worst xenophobic rabble rousing. I don't think it has any intellectual merits to argue. Maybe the football writing is good?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/20/mydailyhell


  • #88
    blow69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭blow69


    Any paper that costs a euro can't be good.


  • #89
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,778 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Sorry, only scanned throught the thread... but did someone actually discribe the Daily Mail as "left wing"...??

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #90
    Irish Halo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,485 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Sorry, only scanned throught the thread... but did someone actually discribe the Daily Mail as "left wing"...??
    They have been back, but didn't to clarify their post, I hope not ....


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  • #91
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Sorry, only scanned throught the thread... but did someone actually discribe the Daily Mail as "left wing"...??

    I was more confused when someone tried to claim that it's science reporting was good.

    They were just taking the piss, right?


  • #92
    AttackThePoster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭AttackThePoster


    Irish Halo wrote: »
    FF the party in power is centre-right hence the "our current voting trends we are certainly not Left wing"

    Also the labour movement was very important in Irish political history less so now therefore "nor could we be considered more left wing than we were previously".

    Daily Mail writes stories designed to induce fear in the white middle class of the UK (well those who think they are middle class). Why any self respecting Irish person would buy the "localised" version of a paper which actively attacked the country for most of its history confuses me. Or is historical context a waste of time?

    Since when were FF centre-right? :confused:

    Linky plz.


  • #93
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,347 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    hooradiation wrote: »
    I was more confused when someone tried to claim that it's science reporting was good.

    They were just taking the piss, right?

    Haven't seen their "Science" section. Let me guess: Everything is so besause God did it?


  • #94
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I love how they waged a campaign on the film Antichrist and in the initial article admitted to having never seen the film only reading about it on the internet. For me it showed that journalistic integrity was alive and well.


  • #95
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I love how they waged a campaign on the film Antichrist and in the initial article admitted to having never seen the film only reading about it on the internet. For me it showed that journalistic integrity was alive and well.

    The best was when they where caught campaigning for the cervical smear vaccine here, but against it in the UK! :o

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #96
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    mike65 wrote: »
    Its cos its so damned good at its job!

    /shakes fist.
    That sums it up. Probably the only newspaper that consistently increases it's readership. Still wouldn't buy it, I don't need to be in fear of everything.

    Their editor's nickname is "The Vagina Monologues" which is my favourite thing about the DM.


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  • #97
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Everything.

    That is amazing in so many ways. I'm gonna sit down with a pint later and just keep clicking.

    'Could Russel Brand give the British public Swine flu?'

    'Can gays destroy your house'


  • #98
    aidan24326
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    thetonynator wrote: »
    Moral of all this is: if you don't want to read a load of complete shíte in the papers, dont buy a tabloid.

    It's not just the tabloids, most if not all of the newspapers are guilty of sh1t journalism, in one way or another, on a regular basis. The treatment of science and health issues is dreadful across pretty much all of them, with the odd exception. I'd agree that the tabloids are particularly brain-rotting though. It's a sad indictment of our society that papers like The Mail and The Sun are the most popular sellers. But despite all The Mail bashing here, The Sun is really no better, nor is The Mirror.


  • #99
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    Angus Og wrote: »
    I'll give you a reason. The Daily Mail have a history of being anti-Irish.
    So does After Hours.


  • #100
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Updated moral is: If you want to learn something, read an academic journal.


  • #101
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    landsleaving wrote: »
    That is amazing in so many ways. I'm gonna sit down with a pint later and just keep clicking.

    'Could Russel Brand give the British public Swine flu?'

    'Can gays destroy your house'

    But can they?
    WE NEED TO KNOW!


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