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There is a difference between the Daily Mail newspaper, which is a scare mongering right wing hate rag which has as much relation to truth and news as say Fox N

by alan_cx 13y ago

There is a difference between the Daily Mail newspaper, which is a scare mongering right wing hate rag which has as much relation to truth and news as say Fox News, and its website which is pretty much a celeb stuff and sort of a soft porn peddler. Its a weird pairing under the same brand. I don't know, but I don't think there is much crossover between the users of the paper and website. Personally, I find both hideous, but Im at a loss to accept that some one who gets all up set about gay marriage, immigrants, and the alleged loss of Englishness, what ever that is or was, is in any way interested in a Kardashian thing.

oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
It's very difficult to hold any extreme view - right or left - without begin hypocritical[1]. The DM just excels at it. [1] And, at an individual level, without encouraging the trashier elements of the media to expend enormous amounts of energy to expose those hypocrisies, however significant.
- alan_cx 13y ago
  Well, sort of, the web site is the newspaper's hypocrisy. No? You are correct, the DM does excel at what it does. On the face of it, the impression I get is that the paper does have a consistent vibe. I mean, I despise its views, but I do have to admit that it is very good at what it does. It is fairly rock solid in its opinions and politics. I would use lots of words to slag the paper off, but I don't think hypocrisy is one of them. But then maybe, people who read it, for either pleasure or pain, may well have many examples of hypocrisy.
  - oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
    I don't read it, but I am aware of a) its rabid obsession with pedophiles b) it's 'sidebar of shame' which frequently features very young women in various states of undress. That, I call hypocrisy.
  - mogrim 13y ago
    The canonical example of DM hypocrisy is its stand "for decency" while filling its pages with image after image of semi-dressed celebrities: http://cdn.recombu.com/digital/images/news/M10326/1335269711_w670_h257.png http://cdn.recombu.com/digital/images/news/M10326/1335269711...

by alan_cx 13y ago

oneeyedpigeon 13y ago

It's very difficult to hold any extreme view - right or left - without begin hypocritical[1]. The DM just excels at it. [1] And, at an individual level, without encouraging the trashier elements of the media to expend enormous amounts of energy to expose those hypocrisies, however significant.

alan_cx 13y ago
Well, sort of, the web site is the newspaper's hypocrisy. No? You are correct, the DM does excel at what it does. On the face of it, the impression I get is that the paper does have a consistent vibe. I mean, I despise its views, but I do have to admit that it is very good at what it does. It is fairly rock solid in its opinions and politics. I would use lots of words to slag the paper off, but I don't think hypocrisy is one of them. But then maybe, people who read it, for either pleasure or pain, may well have many examples of hypocrisy.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  I don't read it, but I am aware of a) its rabid obsession with pedophiles b) it's 'sidebar of shame' which frequently features very young women in various states of undress. That, I call hypocrisy.
- mogrim 13y ago
  The canonical example of DM hypocrisy is its stand "for decency" while filling its pages with image after image of semi-dressed celebrities: http://cdn.recombu.com/digital/images/news/M10326/1335269711_w670_h257.png http://cdn.recombu.com/digital/images/news/M10326/1335269711...