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It's hard to explain to a non Brit just how lowly most of society thinks of the Daily mail. While simultaneously being the most circuited paper heavily driven
by psychphysic 4y ago
It's hard to explain to a non Brit just how lowly most of society thinks of the Daily mail.
While simultaneously being the most circuited paper heavily driven by women readers.
The ads are likely the good bit of the website.
- Ntrails 4y ago> just how lowly most of society thinks of the Daily mail. This is really just a perfect example of how society splinters on certain lines. I give my mother endless shit for reading the daily mail, it is a pre-clickbait indignation generation machine and the website is probably worse. However, "most of society" does not ring true to me. I am the outlier not the default.
- psychphysic 4y agoAs a percentage of the population daily mail readers are miniscule. And aging. If you asked a hypothetical 100 people their thoughts on the Daily Mail the number who report reading it would be dwarfed by the number calling it trash.
- petre 4y agoThey claim to reach 65% of UK audience, I wouldn't call that minuscule.
- ipaddr 4y agoBoth are true statements. 65% read it. 90% say they don't
- ceejayoz 4y agoI used to work for a newspaper; reach claims are basically bullshit, as they can include things like "saw an article online in the last 30 days" or household multipliers where they assume everyone in a subscribing household reads it. Circulation is much more informative.
- psychphysic 4y agoIf they actually sold 40 million papers a day as this guy believes I wonder how much wood they'd consume in a year.
- psychphysic 4y agoHahaha you really think the daily mail sells 40million newspapers a day!
- Ntrails 4y ago> If you asked a hypothetical 100 people their thoughts on the Daily Mail the number who report reading it would be dwarfed by the number calling it trash. I think there is more socio economic bias in your belief of the above than you think. Rural vs Urban, young vs old, educational differences etc. I have no proof, but I reckon the pro-anti numbers are closer than you do and the number of "no strong views" higher.
- harvey9 4y agoMailonline website is editorially separate from the print newspaper last I heard. Not saying it's better or worse. All the press is a click bait indignation generator, just different ones cater to different tastes in indignation.
- petre 4y agoHeh I've looked them up to check if they were owned by Rupert Murdoch. They're not, but it looks like they've been sued by various celebrities, including Hugh Grant, Prince Harry and Elton John for libel. Grant won the trial, as expected.