The Daily Mail

I'm trying to guess whether a reader would understand.

Funny though, thanks.

Tony

Superb!



Cheers
Steve

Brain dead drivel, if you think that is funny, you need a new brain.

quote:

Originally posted by Mick Parry:
Brain dead drivel, if you think that is funny, you need a new brain.

Mail reader Mick?

Excellent and accurate too.

steve

Mongo

Yes I read the Mail and the Times.

Regards

Mick

Explains why you are so well informed!

I know a couple of Mail hacks who thinks this vid is brilliant, because it reflects Dacre's increasingly demented worldview. And I speak as someone who once admired the Mail's macho brilliance and its complete understanding of its audience. It is rapidly descending into self parody, which is reflected in its declining sales.

My mum, who's been taking the Mail for the past 40 years, has given up on it because she just thinks it's a bit mental.

Mick is upset because he doesn't like people taking the piss. He likes to give it out but he can't take it back and starts sulking.

BigH47

If you judge someone as thick because they read the times and mail then quite frankly you to need to sit down and have a think about the way you think.

You just wanted to snipe and if thats what you want to do, pick a better topic.

Kevin

I just find it ludicrous that lefties brand DM readers as thick or RW when their little idol Vince Cable has a weekly column in it.

The paper sells because people like it and I never cricise any other paper.

I once accused a colleague of being a Daily Mail reader and he complained to HR. On reflection I felt this abuse was unnecessarily gratuitous and I apologised for the insult. HR and the MD suggested something milder so we settled for totally witless right wing racist bigot instead and every one was happy.

Great video!

I've no problem with folk reading The Daily Mail; it's the ones who believe in everything it prints that trouble me.

Ok, where to start.

I will put my cards on the table and admit I am a wild-eyed Trotskyist from the lunatic fringe.

But, politics aside, the thing I find most offensive about the Daily Mail is that it appears to have a deliberate agenda to whip up and incite hatred and division in society based usually on incorrect, or at best, misleading facts.

My parents used to buy the Daily Mail and I still have a scrapbook where I cut out and kept the best examples of some of the most bigoted bile you can imagine, which with the benefit of hindsight now appear even more so than they did then. Out of curiosity, I do often pick up the Mail for a quick browse to reassess my views on it and nothing I can see suggest that it has changed much.

Steeve

IMHO, which is not that humble, I must admit, the problem with the journalism in the Mail and similar this this:

The popular press is founded on a basic contradiction. They promote two contradictory ideas, namely the idea the The-Englishman's-Home-Is-His-Castle, and that we want minimal state intervention, no nannying, and maximum freedom. Perhaps akin to USA Republicanism.

The other idea is that whatever happens, by crime or by accident, is somebody's fault. Somebody should have prevented it happening, somebody should have intervened against the individual.

Consider the dilemma the Police, Teachers and Social workers are in. Either they are negligent or nannying. They either fail to intervene, or take away our freedoms.

So the tabloid press attempt to infantilise us. As small children we seek exactly what the avid Mail reader wants, a safe protective framework in order to excerise our freedoms to the maximum extent. And this does not occur outside of the playpen.

Don, overcast downtown York

A very good post Don. The blame culture we now suffer from is directly attributable to the media and is a really negative force, preventing people from taking any degree of risk and wasting time covering their own backs instead of getting on with the task in hand.

Is The Daily Mail to blame for the blame culture or for just recording, cataloguing or commenting upon it so as to boost sales?

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

A brilliant video. But it was bound to upset the right-wing fringe. Which is really a plus point.
Ken
Old (very old) Labour

Ken

If you really think that rubbish was witty then it goes some way to explaining why Maggie found it so easy to kick very old labours ass in 1979 and why it has been out on the fringes every since.

Regards

Mick

Thank you, excellent! I don't think I'll be sending the link to my newsdesk though, who are very much in thrall to them.

Best, Chris

OK, I'll be the one - is that one or two people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA&sns=em

Tony

Chaps

There is another thread entitled " Did this forum lose its punch" and this useless little thread is a good example of why this forum is losing its clout.

We have a case were someone want to attack the Daily Mail and what have they done, they have not so much as attacked it but rather they tickled it with a feather duster.

There is no facts and not even any wit and if you find it thought provoking then you have the brain of an insect.

Sorry chaps but you really do either need to raise the game or keep quiet.

If you are going to attack, then bloody attack.

Regards

Mick

madasafish, glad that you asked! I can't decide if it's clever camerawork or two remarkably similar people.

Does anyone know?

Does anyone care

There's no need to be so bloody rude. If you can't be civil to people having a bit of harmless fun, why not just go elsewhere?