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I gave up buying a paper every day ages ago. The news is always a day old anyway so I'm constantly saying to myself 'I saw that on the news last night' etc.
I do get one occasionally - if I'm out having a coffee - I get the 'I'. It's non aggressive, non alarmist and I never get the feeling I'm being led by the nose. It's a good read and it's only 40p
Injecting some balance into the thread for the benefit of the OP.
DM is not that bad of a paper. By far the main reason it draws fierce criticism (and ridicule) is that it is politically right of center on many issues and opposed to the politically correct, media establishment status quo, espoused especially by liberal millennials. In my experience, its readership are generally grammar school-educated suburban middle class conservatives, who don't really take it that seriously. Purely qualitatively, it sits somewhere between the tabloids (the Daily Star, the Sun), and prime broadsheets (such as the Times or FT), about equivalent to the Guardian, a notch or two below the Express, and several notches below the Telegraph.
The main problem is that it resorts to some obvious insalubrious activities and sensationalism, sometimes aggressively, and requires careful discernment to distinguish signal from noise. Again, the most prudent thing to do is to diversify your news and information sources, including alternative media, and to come to your own careful conclusions.
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It always tries to spin most stories about minorities with its negative agenda. Wealthy Arabs contributing to the London economy are merely described as nuisance frittering away their ill gotten gains and driving dangerously in supercars. Ditto Wealthy Nigerians, who are almost never portrayed in a positive away.
The sad thing is that the Daily Fail is very popular both here and in the US!!!
It always tries to spin most stories about minorities with its negative agenda. Wealthy Arabs contributing to the London economy are merely described as nuisance frittering away their ill gotten gains and driving dangerously in supercars. Ditto Wealthy Nigerians, who are almost never portrayed in a positive away.
The sad thing is that the Daily Fail is very popular both here and in the US!!!
It always tries to spin most stories about minorities with its negative agenda. Wealthy Arabs contributing to the London economy are merely described as nuisance frittering away their ill gotten gains and driving dangerously in supercars. Ditto Wealthy Nigerians, who are almost never portrayed in a positive away.
The sad thing is that the Daily Fail is very popular both here and in the US!!!
So it's like FOX News. The sad thing for humanity is that the radical (and often false) views of these sources spread to the masses. So instead of appealing to perhaps 5% of the population, these views posing as real journalism spread so now maybe 30% of the population adopts these views. Propaganda works.
Try going to the Politics and Other Controversies forum and you'll find posters gleefully using the Daily Fail to show how Europe is aflame and that it's an epidemic of Muslim rape which the '*******s' have brought upon themselves
Many of these criticisms are circumstantial and gauzy. Aside from some historical endorsements from generations ago that are clearly of questionable relevance today, and some obvious faux pas, which any legacy media outlet would accrue over their operation, most of the outrage over it just ultimately boils down to a difference of political views.
My impression so far based on what I've read in this thread and in its online publications is that it's just a middle market newspaper that sometimes uses inflammatory rhetoric and sensationalism, with anti-liberal views that gets the leftists banshee wailing in indignation. I guess in that respect it's a good thing.
It is an English newspaper, which like most English national newspapers specializes in sensational news served up in bit size pieces. Check it out on the internet.
My local news agent refers to all the popular English newspapers as "fish wrappers."
Will have a look for sure.
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