Daily Mail to Buy Out The Telegraph?

There is one FriedGreenTomatoes2, The Times?

To whoever asked - we have 2 papers - The Times and The Mail - delivered everyday by the papershop in the next village.

I have never thought of the Daily Mail as a newspaper.

Jackiest

I have never thought of the Daily Mail as a newspaper.

It’s good to read newspapers with different opinions, otherwise you remain in a bubble of your own making 🤷‍♀️

GrannyGravy13

Jackiest

I have never thought of the Daily Mail as a newspaper.

It’s good to read newspapers with different opinions, otherwise you remain in a bubble of your own making 🤷‍♀️

I do look at sometimes just to see what some people are reading. Normally only look at the headlines as most of it is behind a pay wall now. But that is enough to confirm that is sensationalism and click bait.

MollyNew

Does anyone know of a moderate newspaper which offers centrist views?

The Independent Newspaper, of course.

Horrified but not surprised the Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.

I expect more lazy sensationalism from the Telegraph, which is a shame, because even tho I am left wing, the Telegraph genuinely used to be a respected paper with a variety of views..

Can people really not realise that when newspapers are owned by the Rich and Entitled, their views will represent those Entitled?

And especially the DM puts out its views right down to every level of society, (watching those buying it at my local Spar) and they believe they are reading the truth , not a POV.

And especially the DM puts out its views right down to every level of society, (watching those buying it at my local Spar) and they believe they are reading the truth , not a POV.

Well, wow.

'Every level of society.' ???

Yup. I live in an area where we have from the very rich indeed to the very deprived. That is all I meant, and no more.

I just happen to believe that ones incomes do actually make a difference to ones outlook - are you saying it doesnt?

It won't make any difference.

I think wealth does make a difference to ones social and sometimes political outlook, although of course it is a generalisation, ie not all rich think Y, and not all deprived think Z.

Yes, Wyllow, you make an awful lot of generalisations.

I disagree very strongly.

My "generalisations" in this case for example are generally based on social and economic research about how different groups react.

The "Red Wall" phenonium is alive and kicking in our northern post industrial city, for example, right in my district. it was and has been a powerful force in recent elections, and definitely, going out knocking on doors, locally.

I also think its a bit of a "low" and rather ineffective way to have a go at me eazybee:

If I really generalise on a subject in a particular discussion, by all means point it out then and there. (As long as you point out when others generalise, of course?)

^The Independent Newspaper, of course.
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I have always thought of it as left wing for sure.
Right from it's start.

I havent looked at it in about a year, but I have looked every year just to see if it had changed.

My first thought is they deserve each other.

Well yes but so is the middle/upper class university educated identity politics vote which has very little understanding of the struggles faced by some.

Indeed Galaxy, I agree about that sector too.

..but they aren't buying the Mail or Telegraph.

There is a very big difference between the Guardian and the Independent - I do see the Independent as middle ground.

fancythat

^The Independent Newspaper, of course.
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I have always thought of it as left wing for sure.
Right from it's start.

I havent looked at it in about a year, but I have looked every year just to see if it had changed.

I think you are influenced by your own political orientation in thinking that fancythat, as we all are. The i and the Independent are objectively the most politically neutral.

My Mum and Dad used to get the Guardian and the Mail back in the day. Does that make them unbalanced? I didn’t like either of those papers but I was very young then and haven’t seen them for years. We have ‘ The Age’ which was a really good paper but is now trashy and unbalanced. Things change.

I will take a look at the Independent.

Just had a look at the i.

It is behind a paywall so could only see a few headlines.

The two I saw, looked right wing to me!

Echoed what I think about the budget flip flops being ridiculous.
Worse than that, it is individuals and businesses cant plan properly, as they dont know which way things are heading.
[I have been trying to write this in somewhere so here is good enough].

I meant to link that to Casdon's post.

Worse than that, it is individuals and businesses cant plan properly, as they dont know which way things are heading.

Isn't it patently obvious that, at the very least, we are heading for 'austerity', which means cutting public spending. So individuals will have less money because of losing their jobs and businesses will lose both government purchases and consumer purchases because both the government and individuals will be spending less. Individuals because they don't have as much money and government because it perversely believes that starving the economy of money will promote 'growth'.

It matters which ways. In business!

Changes to NI
Changes to, oh I dont know. You look them all up.

It matters!

House buying has stalled.

Again, look up all the ways that Uk businesses[big and small] have been affected in the last 6 months by all the shilly shallying.