Daily Mail

Simon Adebesi

Jippy

Interesting view from the US on the Daily Mail- is a long article so won't cut and paste it.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...urrentPage=all

99 red balloons

My mate just got a job working on the "current affairs" desk at the Mail. I like to tell him he's part of an evil machine now.

Ian Brown had it right.

Jippy

A mate I used to work with recently moved from their personal finance desk onto the business desk. He is pretty liberal- just a decent job and pretty well paid with a few nice perks thrown in.
It's definitely a misconception that most of the journos that work there actually believe the bile they spew out.

99 red balloons

Oh definitely. And he would fall into that category too. I know he did have a pretty strong wrestle with his conscience before taking the job, but to be fair, if you're in the field of journalism, and one of the most hit websites on the planet gives you column inches, you'd have to be fairly strong-willed to turn it down.

I despise the paper. But would jump at the chance to work on their sport desk.

Jippy

My mate used to work on the same trade mag as me and when he moved to the Mail he pretty much had to burn half of the contacts who got him that job cos the Mail's stance was that all life companies were evil.
Yep, I would happily work on their personal finance desk- it does a lot of good campaigning work exposing bad practice etc...but there is obviously a lot about the paper to hate. That New Yorker article is right though- the website is strangely compelling, even if just to laugh at the reader comments.

Jippy

I love the New Yorker piece quoting Esquire's verdict on the DM- 'it's like your purse-lipped mother-in-law'
So true (more so for my missus but that's a different story).

Team Brian GB

I cannot remember the last time I enjoyed an article so much, I laughed out loud at points.

Jippy

Yep was pointed out to me by a leftie colleague- love the bit about our tabloids being 'beserk and shouty' and it is a clinical dissection of the paper. Their columnists range from 'sensible to unhinged'. Interesting insight into Paul Dacre too- the carrier bag in a tree story etc...

Jippy

Sorry- one last reference to that article. Some lefties hate the DM so much that they set up some kind of proxy site so that liberals could browse it without giving them more traffic

Wibble

That Dacre bloke sound clinically insane.

Team Brian GB

The Daily Mail are being the Daily Mail again.

The front page story on their website is 'Britain's hardest working Dad' decided to leave the United Kingdom with his wife and 12 children.

The story bangs on about how things are difficult here, how there are no short or long term prospects and that they are leaving for Australia. This guy has no overtly special skills, he has no job lined up yet the Daily Mail glosses over that and the fact Australia has a reputation for being especially strict on immigration.

For a newspaper that likes to pride itself in patriotism it does know how to put a negative spin on everything. What makes it especially hilarious is if an Australian family with 12 kids, with the father going from job to job without specialised qualifications brought them to the United Kingdom with no job lined up they would have a front page story ridiculing them and ridiculing us - such a family goes the other way and still they ridicule us.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...home-grim.html

ukbob

For all of you people who are against the Daily Mail you sure know a lot about it's contents! hmmmmmm

Team Brian GB

I am not 'against' it, its stance on many things annoy me.

Though I read all the newspapers here on at least a semi-regular basis, to test my views of affairs and breakout of the reinforcement theory of reading articles aligned to your own stance.

Mockney

Surely that's the best reason to be against anything?

Stanley Road

I'd like to tell you how easy it was for my Dutch brother in law and his then Non working Chinese wife, to get Australian Citizenships and Passports

But i wont, because then you might realise what you wrote is nonsense

I too have no special skills and am doing 10 times better than i would be in the UK

rcoobc

But did you manage to take in a swan?

Simon Adebesi

I like doing that too. But not with The Daily Mail. It has nothing to teach me.

Team Brian GB

That is the first time I have ever heard of anyone comment that Australia is easy to get into, all previous reports and examples I have heard is of how difficult it is if you are not on the required skills shortages list.

ukbob

This will be the second time then. You can get into any country in the world if you have the know how.

Stanley Road

You listen to the wrong reports, something you confirm with a lot of posts

Team Brian GB

Just because I hear of one doesn't mean I change my position.

Stanley Road

No, i'm sure of that

Unless it's coupled with a stat, favours your bias and comes from a favoured source

bsc

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...=feeds-newsxml

They're urging support for Le Pen

FlawlessThaw

I though the Mail were done supporting European far right political figures

Grinner

I hate all the animal cruelty stories that they put up. That stuff turns my stomach and I never read them, but they always put up lurid headlines and photos which give me the gist of what happened.

decorativeed

Typical persecuted little Englanders sucked right into the comments of this story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ffensive.html#

And what heinous assault on out literary liberties are these people so outraged about? Well apparently "A survey of 98 library authorities took in more than 300 complaints from the last five years about 'unsuitable, inappropriate or offensive' works. Half of them were about children's books."

So that'd be 150 complaints about childrens books over 5 years to 98 authorities... 0.3 complaints per authority per year. Apparently there are 208 Library Authorities in the UK with a total of around 4,500 libraries - an average of around 22 per authority. So that'd be 0.01 complaints per library per year. What a sinister, leftie, PC brigade plot! It'll not be long until all our kids are permitted to read is the Communist Manifesto.

This guy has also done his maths:

Grinner

They've got pics of a spider eating a snake today.

Wibble

I bet the slider has better maths skills.