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Daily mail as a quality source??!!
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moggylover wrote: »I prefer to call it the Daily Snail as it leaves a nasty smear wherever it goes:D
It is in my opinion it is a sophomorically
nasty newspaper, it panders to some pretty nasty type of people. I may be wrong though:D 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
I came to this thread thinking we were discussing The Daily Mail as a quality. As in "they're a bit Daily Mail".
As someone who works in meedja I've learnt never to use the Mail as a source. Some of it's made up, apparently.
And that's any different from the rest? The Independent is one of the worst - completely fictional (not to say hysterical) front page leads.0 -
Instead of trying to post a sophomoric jibe, why don't you demonstrate a way in which The Guardian has been less politically predictable than The Daily Mail?
I've already given you two examples (Binyan Mohammed and Iraq). So far, you've yet to offer anything more than a tired cliche.
I'd agree that The Daily Mail comes up with some unpredictable headline stories. The Stephen Lawrence story would probably have not been as big without it.
Where is is utterly predictable is its continous anti-immigrant, anti-europe, anti working women (or all women) stories together with its ludicrous health scare stories where no amount of scientific evidence will ever get them to retract hugely damaging made up stories. The MMR reporting by the Mail was utterly biased (and wrong) both in its news reporting and its comment pieces.US housing: it's not a bubble
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sophomorically
Good word there mate.
Better even discombobulate which I've been trying to get in for a while now.kennyboy66 wrote: »I'd agree that The Daily Mail comes up with some unpredictable headline stories. The Stephen Lawrence story would probably have not been as big without it.
Where is is utterly predictable is its continous anti-immigrant, anti-europe, anti working women (or all women) stories together with its ludicrous health scare stories where no amount of scientific evidence will ever get them to retract hugely damaging made up stories. The MMR reporting by the Mail was utterly biased (and wrong) both in its news reporting and its comment pieces.
The Daily Mail does seem to have this slightly peculiar agenda whereby they want to group all foods into those that do and don't cause cancer.
The MMR thing was a disgrace. Children will end up blind or dead as a direct result of parents reading and believing those stories.0 -
Every time I see the Indepedent it seems to have the same photo on its cover of a factory billowing out smoke and the same hysterical preaching about the environment. I don't think they report any other news except about global warming and the environment :rolleyes:. Always makes me chuckle.0
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Good word there mate.
Better even discombobulate which I've been trying to get in for a while now.
The Daily Mail does seem to have this slightly peculiar agenda whereby they want to group all foods into those that do and don't cause cancer.
The MMR thing was a disgrace. Children will end up blind or dead as a direct result of parents reading and believing those stories.
Does that mean confusing or bullsh1ting 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
I'm not going to defend the Mail, per se, in terms of its sensationalism, exaggeration, and the dubious veracity of some news stories. It does however apparently appeal to a particular group of people who might find the Telegraph too dry, but who nevertheless are looking for reinforcement of their belief in civilised standards, optimal individual freedom, a healthy respect for history and tradition, rejection of neophilia, and reasonable protection of long-established English values and way of life.
It is telling that such people are routinely described by some leftist/liberal elements as "nasty", in the same way as an abortive attempt has been made by some left wing elements to depict the Conservative Party as the "nasty party".
Since they created the National Health Service (surely the only notable success in their history) Labour has actually done little or nothing that might in this context be described as "nice". The poor are no better of in relative (and in some cases in absolute) terms, the uneducated are no better educated, society has become more divisive, aggressive, and violent. The perception that Labour creates a fairer, a more just, or a more civilised society is actually a myth. If they were able to achieve this then they probably would stay in office permanently because the majority of voters would be most happy with the situation.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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Ignoring the Tories being a nasty bunch, they look a sad bunch to be running the country.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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Ignoring the Tories being a nasty bunch, they look a sad bunch to be running the country.
Assuming that means 'sad' in the context of pathetic and unworthy, then I suspect that the majority of the electorate will continue to conclude that they could hardly be more so than the bunch that we have in government now, and that the Tories will get their chance after May 2010.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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GeorgeHowell wrote: »Assuming that means 'sad' in the context of pathetic and unworthy, then I suspect that the majority of the electorate will continue to conclude that they could hardly be more so than the bunch that we have in government now, and that the Tories will get their chance after May 2010.
Unfortunately, you may well be correct, having said that the electorate are a fickle bunch this may all turn on the results of this recession.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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