The Daily Mail

We used to buy the DM every Saturday for the weekend supplement, puzzles etc., I used to enjoy the Female section which is one day during the week.

Haven’t purchased a print newspaper since Covid, happy to browse the Sunday’s when out for breakfast or the daily’s at lunchtime in our local coffee shop/bistro though.

The constant put downs by posters regarding the IQ of DM readers and their inability to think for themselves is rather tedious and predictable.

We have been buying just weekend papers (The Guardian and The Telegraph) for quite a while - for the news, obviously, but also for the crosswords, magazines etc. But recently, paying £7.50 !, we are reconsidering. (re the OP, I never read the DM)

I rarely buy a paper but when I do it's usually the DM's Saturday edition.

I buy them for the crosswords and the letters. The news is always out of date compared with other media.

I too read the Daily Mail on line.
I buy it on a Saturday for the TV guide.

We buy The Daily Mail on Saturday only because I like the magazine with it.

OK, at risk of being accused of stirring things up...

What possible reason do you have for buying a paper that includes fake news and biased reporting? One that Wiki has decided not to include as a source because they are unreliable? (Wiki!) Are you all so capable of withstanding propaganda that it just rolls off you like water off a ducks back? Do you not care about giving money to liars and cheats who hack people's phones?

Why am I thinking about the men who said they only bought Playboy for the articles?

Because I like the magazine and the TV guide. I am very shallow.

I look at a variety of newspaper on line during the day.
If we buy a newspaper at the weekend of when on holiday it tends to be the Daily Mail my DH likes the quick crossword on the back page

Welcome volver3, it wouldn’t be a DM discussion without disagreement.
I read on line despite knowing I’m contributing to its place as a ‘popular’ paper. I don’t expect unbiased reporting, quite the opposite.

No papers are unbiased whether it's the mail or the guardian. I dont read either.

I have read it for years l do take some of the articles with a very large dollop of salt. I also read articles from other newspapers, including the Guardian, online. Despite its reputation, it is the most popular newspaper in the country.

I have the digital issue every day. It downloads onto my tablet in the early hours so it is always waiting when I get out of bed. I pay £65 for the year. That's a paper every day , the glossy magazine and the 2 TV magazines at the weekend. Much easier than having to go down to the newsagents every day, and considerably cheaper than the paper version.
I enjoy it and have no intention of stopping it, despite anybody who criticises it.
And no, I am not uneducated. I had a high level job in the Civil Service until I retired, and am now a freelance crossword compiler.

I’m in, I too read the Daily Mail, well bits of it when I received it online on their special offer.
Now I sometimes catch their headlines, but can’t be doing with celebs, I never know who they are anyway.
All papers have an agenda, however they market themselves.

You’ll not be surprised to read that I have a guardian subscription - delivered every day except Sunday when the observer is delivered😄

We have just started subscribing and having delivered a local paper to keep up with local news, although I haven’t yet read it. DH reads it out to me😏

TBH I have never ever read the DM - no reason to.

If I am away and can’t get the guardian I would buy the times or telegraph just to see what the opposition is saying

I have a friend who was a headmistress. She reads the Daily Mail every day.

She doesn't understand what's wrong with it either.

No papers are unbiased, you're right Galaxy. But only the Daily Mail is this:

mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/#Analysis%20/%20Bias

But lovely crosswords, of course. So that's OK.

I do see the DM headlines on the bbc news app. 🤭. That is more than enough for my sensibilities.

I get a lot of Daily Mail and Express stuff pop up on Facebook and I’ve yet to read anything that isn’t a load of rubbish ( I usually don’t go beyond the headline to be honest). The Sun infuriated me the other week when their front page headline was about the brave woman who shopped her gangster ex boyfriend: as if the poor woman wasn’t in enough danger. I don’t have a problem with people reading these newspapers but I do have a problem with the fact that many people do take what they print as gospel. And that, imo is dangerous especially as you don’t even have to buy these papers to see their headlines as you eg walk into a supermarket and are subliminally influenced by them.

Iam64

Varian’s thread on the average gransnetter led to a few posters outing themselves as Daily Mail readers. One poster also reads the Guardian. I too am Spartacus. I read the DM on line. I buy the Guardian. That’s two of us 😏

I look at both online.

We buy the Mail on Saturday for the tv guide
(And Monty Don )

When I was a child we had the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror, the Express and Star, a local newspaper and whichever newspaper it was that I had to use to take down the football results; my mother voted Tory (she wasn't that bothered about politics in fact) and my father was a member of the Labour Party.

DH has been buying the Telegraph occasionally for a friend who is in hospital - it's £3

I like to follow links given in posts by Gransnetters to DM articles to see why the Gransnetters are getting hot under the collar about the articles in question.

Just how they find these articles in a publication which they profess to despise is a mystery.

I read a wide variety of newspapers online, and having contributed to many of them in the course of my career, I'm probably more aware than many of how they slant the news to suit their own agenda.

Callistemon21

I like to follow links given in posts by Gransnetters to DM articles to see why the Gransnetters are getting hot under the collar about the articles in question.

Just how they find these articles in a publication which they profess to despise is a mystery.

Google.

🤦🏼‍♀️

I don’t buy any newspapers at all. I read Yahoo news online sometimes, and watch/listen to a variety of news programmes on television.