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Daily Mail - disgraceful article

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eddiecat78 Tue 05-Mar-24 07:35:20

Daily Mail's leading article online today is a detailed piece on Dave Myers' "huge fortune".
Why on earth would anyone think this is appropriate?

SeaWoozle Tue 05-Mar-24 22:01:41

The Daily Mail is a hate filled rag published only to fuel division and spite. The sooner it's banished to the annals of history, the better. Appalling waste of water resources!!

Dinahmo Tue 05-Mar-24 22:16:17

I read the article online. It must have taken some digging to obtain details of all the houses that Dave Myers bought and sold.

It is two faced to comment on Mr Myers' wealth when the DM proprietors are substantially wealthier. Harmsworth is a non dom - one of the reasons why the DM was opposed to remaining in the EU. Mr Myers was a UK resident and as such paid tax in the UK.

The article was a nasty, vicious piece of tabloid journalism. There was a time when the DM campaigned against racism, such as the Stephen Lawrence campaign although his mother is bringing a case against Associated Newspapers for breach of privacy.

Etoile2701 Thu 07-Mar-24 11:27:07

I wouldn’t touch the Daily Mail with a 10 foot bargepole. Horrid, biased, nasty and opinionated rag.

Etoile2701 Thu 07-Mar-24 11:27:54

Agree totally.

Babamaman Thu 07-Mar-24 11:36:22

And the daily Mail wrote ‘dead’ not that he ha passed away or died?
Another headline was that some daughters were angry because their father ‘only’ left them £50 each! Because they never visited him!
Why is it anyone’s business?
Daily Mail and British media is the lowest of the low -
Look how they’re hounding The Princess of Wales!
No respect for anyone or anything - pure scum

spabbygirl Thu 07-Mar-24 11:37:23

How disgusting!!! I loathe that paper, I loved that they came from low like me and got better off, they helped so many with cooking too

harrysgran Thu 07-Mar-24 11:41:23

Dreadful invasion of privacy not the information anyone needs to know

pascal30 Thu 07-Mar-24 11:44:30

I can't imagine why anyone would want to read the Mail

ExaltedWombat Thu 07-Mar-24 11:50:49

I can't get too upset over this. It's not as if the other aspects of his career hadn't already been fully reported. I seem to remember 'Latest wills' being a regular feature of the local paper, it was mildly interesting to see how much (or how little) a local figure had accumulated.
There are better reasons to dislike the Daily Mail. I could quote one instance where they tracked an ailing television actor down to his care home, snapped him when he hobbled across the road to buy a paper, and opened the article on him with THAT picture. And the article was a muck-raking one, though they couldn't find much muck to rake. THAT'S why I dislike the Daily Mail.

Bazza Thu 07-Mar-24 12:06:23

Why are his finances even relevant?? Dreadful rag. Never read it.

Jenn53 Thu 07-Mar-24 12:26:35

I agree with all of you. I stopped buying & reading the Daily Mail a few years ago. I don't know why it took me so long as my son was appalled that I read it but I enjoyed reading the Femail section with its interesting articles at the time, but after seeing the constant inaccuracies, the nasty opinionated hate-filled"journalism", the spite & hounding of people I decided enough is enough. It is the lowest of the low!

Summysoom Thu 07-Mar-24 13:19:44

Why on earth is anyone still reading the Daily Fail?

nipsmum Thu 07-Mar-24 13:33:22

Things like this is why I don't read newspapers. I wouldn't waste my money on them.

mumof2boys Thu 07-Mar-24 14:17:11

I have a friend who lost a child in a very sad and very tragic accident, it made the daily mail and the 1st sentence referred to the value of their house.

The article and tone caused her significant distress.

AreWeThereYet Thu 07-Mar-24 14:27:39

Does it matter where it was printed? It's just like rubber necking at an accident really. The only reason papers print private stuff is because so many people like all the gory details whether it's murder, a juice sex scandal and divorce or financial.

If people didn't read it the papers wouldn't print it.

rowyn Thu 07-Mar-24 14:39:10

Well, one of us has lost the plot - probably me, at my age. You refer to today's Daily Mail; I have scoured every page of said publication and cannot find any mention of DM. Inevitably most of the paper is about yesterday's Budget.
Please can you tell me the page number?

Casdon Thu 07-Mar-24 14:40:49

I think it does matter when it’s the main headline AreWeThereYet, yes. The Mail printed this story before any other papers and it was the main headline, the other papers then picked it up and did small features on it. They were wrong to do that (not all of them did) but the Mail was initially at fault. The poor man hadn’t even been buried.

AreWeThereYet Thu 07-Mar-24 15:02:49

But why does it matter which of them did it first Casdon ? Would it have been any better if The Times or The Telegraph of The Guardian did it? Not to me. I don't disagree that the Mail is more a comic than a newspaper but basically they do what all newspapers do, print what gets them readers.

Doodledog Thu 07-Mar-24 15:04:42

The Times and the Guardian have their faults, but they print news, not the finer details of someone's personal finances before they are cold in the ground.

Dillonsgranma Thu 07-Mar-24 16:06:19

Oh dear. What a mistake for the daily mail to make ! They’ve shot themselves in the foot there !

Casdon Thu 07-Mar-24 16:09:54

AreWeThereYet

But why does it matter which of them did it first Casdon ? Would it have been any better if The Times or The Telegraph of The Guardian did it? Not to me. I don't disagree that the Mail is more a comic than a newspaper but basically they do what all newspapers do, print what gets them readers.

It wouldn’t have been any better on them whichever paper printed it first, because it’s that paper that does the research behind the article. In this case it probably would not have been a story at all if the Mail hadn’t done so - so they are culpable, as are the others which printed it to a lesser extent.

Amalegra Thu 07-Mar-24 16:22:36

The Daily Mail is just another tabloid rag but one which tries hard to fool people into thinking it’s a serious source of news. It’s surprising how many people fall for this deception too! I personally have never read it.

undines Thu 07-Mar-24 16:26:08

Why would anyone be surprised at anything the Daily Mail printed? It's a rag. Why read it?

OldFrill Thu 07-Mar-24 16:31:36

rowyn

Well, one of us has lost the plot - probably me, at my age. You refer to today's Daily Mail; I have scoured every page of said publication and cannot find any mention of DM. Inevitably most of the paper is about yesterday's Budget.
Please can you tell me the page number?

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13154561/Hairy-Bikers-star-Dave-Myers-HUGE-death-cancer.html

Lettie44 Thu 07-Mar-24 16:39:21

Never read the Daily Mail.