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It's the premier middle-class British pastime to be forever proclaiming how much you hate the Daily Mail. A: No, I hate it more. B: No, IIII really do despise
by frou_dh 7y ago
It's the premier middle-class British pastime to be forever proclaiming how much you hate the Daily Mail.
A: No, I hate it more.
B: No, IIII really do despise it more.
C: Oh my gawwd, the Daily Mail. Groooan!
- dev_dull 7y agoYet many of them read it.
- jacknews 7y agoThe Mirror, Star, Express, etc used to be the 'awful' lower-class newspapers. Times change. Or perhaps there's some kind of 'class inflation'. But really, today's Mail is all celeb ad-photorials(tm) and drivel.
- mft_ 7y agoI always perceived that it was split along class lines (this is the UK, after all). The true working-class tabloids were the Sun, Mirror, and Star. The Mail and the Express seemed to be more for people who were doing a little better, were often (correspondingly?) a bit older, but were rooted in right-wing/small island mentality, and who would probably have been uncomfortable with the image/implications of moving to a broadsheet.
- jacknews 7y agoAh yes, forgot the Sun! But true, the Mail was always targeted at the 'aspiring', 'twitching lace curtains' class.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThe Daily Express used to be a broadsheet, and was always thought middle market. It went tabloid after Beaverbrook died - in the 70s I think. Somehow, it had a reputation for decent, honest but right of centre reporting. Quite how I'm not sure as Beaverbrook had infamously told a 1948 enquiry into the press that he ran the paper "purely for the purpose of making propaganda and with no other motive". He may have been Murdoch's role model. Ever since it went tabloid it's been downhill all the way, and right down the toilet after Desmond.
- yakshaving_jgt 7y ago…Harry and Paul? Is that you?
- frou_dh 7y agoIndeed I edited in C after remembering a saved video!