'Which paper do you read?' poll results/discussion

3dsmills

Hello,

I know this is off topic so appreciate this may be deleted but im trying to get hold of a copy of yesterdays Live magazine from the Mail on Sunday, please PM me if you can help!

Thanks

Colxfile

I thought I'd wait until this ended before I posted this. The most recent 4-weekly circulation data of the main weekday newspapers (Not including "Saturday" editions) from the ABC Website:

30th of June 2008 to 28th of July 2008: 
[FONT=Courier New]The Sun------------- 2,896,330
The Daily Mail------ 2,077,545
Daily Mirror-------- 1,318,168
The Daily Telegraph-   799,021
Daily Express-------   687,069
Daily Star----------   605,261
The Times-----------   574,381
Daily Record--------   364,796
The Guardian--------   292,909
The Independent-----   178,576
Financial Times-----   130,695
Daily Sport---------    79,819
Saturday Sport------    52,223[/FONT]

(Apologies for using the CODE tag, I wanted the numbers to line up)

Thought it might be interesting.

gravitytolls

It's funny how many knock Daily Mail readers, when the majority have voted for it.

janaltus

astralbee wrote: »

For the above reasons, I suspected that a high proportion of this website's readership would be mail readers - and I was right! Sorry, I ought to clarify - I'm not calling everyone a fascist!! But the reason the Mail backed Hitler in the 1930's was because they reported how he was getting tough and sorting out the country's economy. In the newspaper's defence, I should point out that they quickly stopped singing his praises when he started gassing people.

D

I've always felt a great affinity with MSE'ers so I confess to feeling utterly depressed to learn so many of us/them are purchasers of the Daily Mail.

In the early 1930s the Mail's publisher, Rothermere, gave active support to Oswald Mosley and the National Union of Fascists. He wrote the lead article in the Daily Mail "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" in January 1934, in which he praised Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine".

Rothermere had several meetings with Adolf Hitler and argued that Hitler desired peace. In an article published in March 1934 he called for Hitler to be given back land in Africa that had been taken as a result of the Versailles Treaty.

Rothermere and his newspapers supported Neville Chamberlain and his policy of appeasement. Hence he was devastated when war broke out between Britain and Germany in 1939.

Lord Rothermere never recanted or expressed remorse for his wholehearted support of the Fascists. The only reason he "stopped singing [Hitler's] praises" is because he died in November 1940!

Some of the first victims of the Fascists were disabled people. On the grounds that disabled people were less worthwhile and an unfair burden on society, a widespread and compulsory sterilisation program began in 1933, as soon as the Nazis came to power. This was followed by the active killing program, T4, which started in early 1939. Articles on how disabled and elderly people are less worthwhile and an unfair burden on society can be seen, on a regular basis, in topical issues of the Daily Mail. Plus ça change ...

jimence

The readership figures are very interesting - by my calculations, the right wing press in England and Wales (Sun, Mail, Telegraph, Express, Star, FT) accounts for 7,195,921 readers a week while the left wing press (Mirror, Guardian, Independent, and I've included the Times even though it's probably centre-right) accounts for 2,364,034. The Sport papers don't count (sorry!)

That's roughly a 3:1 ratio of right wing:left wing

And regardless of the history of the Mail (the Sun used to be a respected tabloid and the Guardian used to be a regional paper in Manchester!) what concerns me most is its nutcase editor Paul Dacre, who is of the opinion that the liberal papers are stupid for trying to report both left and right wing views and that BBC news will eventually be overcome by Fox-style news from the US (did anyone see that ridiculous 'saving Jessica Lynch' propaganda?!). Then again when you're on £1.5m a year you can say what you like I guess..

MKB

jimence wrote: »

That's roughly a 3:1 ratio of right wing:left wing

I buy the Telegraph but I'm a socialist. I wouldn't draw any political inferences from the readership figures.