The Daily Mail

I opened it.

You might want to compare the treatment of the incident and the language used, and ponder the reaction each article is meant to arouse.

I am beginning to wonder about all those who allegedly do not/will not read the DM due to its subliminal mind altering abilities, are they worried that they will be easily led?

MerylStreep

MayBee70
Is this the load of rubbish you’re referring to ?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11964189/Kyiv-compares-Russia-ISIS-sickening-video-Putins-soldiers-beheading-Ukrainian-POW.html

News about that particular item is also in The Guardian

I'm sure we are all sensible enough to see bias etc for what it is.

Just like with the adverts, eh? Doesn't work on you, of course not.

Why should we have to justify which newspaper we read, as someone said upthread we get our information from many different sources. I'm sure we are all sensible enough to see bias etc for what it is. The BBC is one of the biggest offenders but not decried like the Daily Mail. I too find the constant put down of Daily Mail readers tedious and predictable.

It's like the adverts, isn't it?

Whenever we have a thread about an advert, gazillions of people pop up and say it doesn't work on them, they don't get influenced by advertising.

And all these people who say that they are not influenced by what's published in the Daily Mail.

I haven't opened your link MerylStreep because I can tell from the title that it's about gratuitous violence. Why do you think they are publishing articles like that? What on earth could the mouthpiece of the government have to gain from gratuitous violence? It'll be babies on bayonets next.

So its not about being daft, or thinking that DM people don't think for themselves. The DM does what it does because it know that exposing its readers to a constant barrage of violence, "Biden hates us" and the "doctors are wicked", influences your attitude. Not everybody, all the time, but enough people, enough of the time.

But of course, nobody on Gransnet... 😡

I get The Times most Saturday’s, it has a good sports section and gardening pages.
I get tv schedules on the TV, reviews online.
I got my ‘career’ job from an advert in The Mail many years ago, the paper was in the pub, I asked if I could take the page.

Never bought the DM, but we always buy the Sunday Times and occasionally the Sunday Express. So what sort of a reader am I then . ?

I'm not daft enough to believe most of what I read in the DM.

MayBee70
Is this the load of rubbish you’re referring to ?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11964189/Kyiv-compares-Russia-ISIS-sickening-video-Putins-soldiers-beheading-Ukrainian-POW.html

MayBee70

But it portrays itself as a newspaper. And by getting people to read it for other things it subliminally brainwashes people into absorbing lies.

Implying yet again that folks who read the DM are unable to think for themselves.

It’s good to read a variety of newspapers, it is equally as important to watch different news programmes.

If we only read/watch one which suits our political leanings how on earth are we supposed to know what other opinions/views are?

But it portrays itself as a newspaper. And by getting people to read it for other things it subliminally brainwashes people into absorbing lies.

kittylester

It is ridiculous to presume that any one who reads the Mail (or any other publication for that matter) only gets their news from one place.

News is every where, tv and radio, social media, talking to people etc.

Of all the reasons given in this thread for reading the DM, nobody has said that they read it for the news.

I don't read it as such, but get headlines on my phone.

But minus his family. Best plan imo. He will do his duty then scoot home . No distraction for the media with Meghan.

It is ridiculous to presume that any one who reads the Mail (or any other publication for that matter) only gets their news from one place.

News is every where, tv and radio, social media, talking to people etc.

We have the DM daily. Dr Scurr and Dr Pemberton give such good advice. DH says the financial advice is good. I like Garfield. No apologies from me.

I wonder what the D M will say tomorrow about Prince Harry definitely coming to the Coronation 🤔

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.