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The Daily Mail: one newspaper's hold over the consciousness of HoL
I HAVE never subscribed to the Daily Mail and can't remember if I've ever actually purchased a copy. I sometimes read it in the local library. It's a popular, mainstream paper but I've never been entirely comfortable with it as I am comfortable with broadsheets. Like other tabloids, the DM is often sensational and it seems FURY often appears as part of a headline on the front page! I could probably write a critique of its style. There's lots of human-interest stories and the target market is women.
Having said that, I'm astonished the hold that this single newspaper has over the minds of some HoL contributors. I did a search for 'Daily Mail' on HoL and found 72 pages worth of results (try it yourself!). The DM's editors would probably be flattered. To the extent that the DM is seen as a journal of record, some of these will be links to news articles of course. But many use it as a short-hand term of abuse, like "lefty" or "nazi", as we've seen recently.
Most newspapers have a political line or editorial slant and the Mail is no exception.
But has the Daily Mail reader epithet now become on HoL a lazy substitute for reasoned argument and independent thought?
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Having said that, I'm astonished the hold that this single newspaper has over the minds of some HoL contributors. I did a search for 'Daily Mail' on HoL and found 72 pages worth of results (try it yourself!). The DM's editors would probably be flattered. To the extent that the DM is seen as a journal of record, some of these will be links to news articles of course. But many use it as a short-hand term of abuse, like "lefty" or "nazi", as we've seen recently.
Most newspapers have a political line or editorial slant and the Mail is no exception.
But has the Daily Mail reader epithet now become on HoL a lazy substitute for reasoned argument and independent thought?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I sometimes read it in the local library.
You sir, are a Daily Mail reader.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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John, I think you stir! This is misleading. In the library I also read another tabloid (the Mirror), plus 'broadsheets' – the Independent, the Guardian, the Times. But mostly I read Britain's best newspaper, probably worth all the others put together, The Financial Times. Trouble is, I can't afford the cover price: £2.
All available in Stroud Green library, plus other newspapers. Books too.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Oh dear the FT, Clive going OT again reminds me that the FT is the only British newspaper which prints a foreign language 'sister paper'.
The Daily Mail did have designs on Germany, at least in 1930s, when it vociferously supported the n+zis
Which makes the Mail's top columist Mr Littlejohn's comments 'Thank Heaven The Few didn't defend as badly as England's footballers in Bloemfontein yesterday afternoon, otherwise we'd all be speaking German' seem rather misplaced...
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1290137/WORLD-CUP-2010-Th...
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I think most newspaper's political allegiances catch up with them eventually. When a paper backs one party at election time its a hostage to fortune. For example, the Financial Times' editorial backed Labour several elections in a row (a bit lukewarm second-to-last time), a fact that must cause them some embarrassment now.
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