Best of the Daily Mail

[Firky]

The Mail was outraged a few days ago over an ad for fruit bread, it features a brother and sister talking about their dad over breakfast, the girl is in her school uniform, and the boy mentioned her short skirt. The mail claimed the ad was sexualising young children (the girl is played by an 18 year old actor) . Of course the article has several shots of the girl in a short skirt, and a link to the offensive video . The same day they smeared the victim of child abuse, Stephen Messer?

I didn't see the article but I saw the fallout on a media website

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2012/11/12/daily-mail-goes-apoplectic-rage-over-provocative-kingsmill-ad

 

[Lord Camomile]

I think someone (i.e. not me...) should put together a one-sheet of The Mail's most recent and flagrant examples of hypocrisy, print off a shitload of them then insert one into every copy of the DM they find in newsagents and other retailers. Probably wouldn't do much, but at least it would directly confront those reading it.

Directly confront them from the safety of teh interwebz, that is

 

[stuff_it]

Farm girls turn calendar pin-ups for risqué charity photo shoot

A group of young female farmers from North Devon have posed in nothing but their wellies for a Calendar Girls-style photo shoot for charity
.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lendar-pin-ups-risqu-charity-photo-shoot.html

'Wanton harlot'. *snigger*

 

[William of Walworth]

Firky, this whole thread is an oxymoron !!

The DM doesn't have any "best" imho, of course....

It's more about the Fail's 'greatest hits' though isn't it firks? The Best of the Worst so to speak.

 

[Firky]

It's more about the Fail's 'greatest hits' though isn't it firks? The Best of the Worst so to speak.

Yep, whatever floats to the top of the great journalistic sewage of the Daily Mail.

 

[The39thStep]

I think the Mail has one of the highest women readership levels out of the mainstream press

 

[U N Arrator]

Jesus...

You'd think it would be as simple as compiling a dossier of the DM's rampant hypocrisy, publishing it for the world to see and that would be enough to undermine it fatally, but get the feeling that's idealistic poppycock

It is idealistic because it assumes that that people are essentially rational and that irrationality is whipped up by malevolent forces working on behalf of the exploiters. While there's some truth in the latter assumption, it ignores the fact that liberals and left wingers are generally attached to a different kind of irrationality which, every bit as much as that of the right, seeks to deny the fact that the world is basically one big lunatic asylum.

 

[DotCommunist]

It is idealistic because it assumes that that people are essentially rational and that irrationality is whipped up by malevolent forces working on behalf of the exploiters. While there's some truth in the latter assumption, it ignores the fact that liberals and left wingers are generally attached to a different kind of irrationality which, every bit as much as that of the right, seeks to deny the fact that the world is basically one big lunatic asylum.

Coffees with beria all roundimo

 

[U N Arrator]

Yep, whatever floats to the top of the great journalistic sewage of the Daily Mail.

I mean, does anybody really believe that if it wasn't for the likes of the Mail, the attitudes it seeks to reflect and exploit would somehow disappear?

 

[DotCommunist]

disappear them

 

[Firky]

I mean, does anybody really believe that if it wasn't for the likes of the Mail, the attitudes it seeks to reflect and exploit would somehow disappear?

If more people read the Sport there'd be more children who were born as fish fingers, lost Luftwaffe airmen found on Mars and Nessie would be a national treasure.

 

[U N Arrator]

disappear them

Even were you to take that remark seriously, it doesn't work. Before the USSR*, for instance, had even disappeared, attitudes had emerged into the open which makes the average (sincere) nutter on the Mail's mesageboard seem like a callow liberal.

* Which simultaneously fought and utilised reactionary sentiment depending on the situation.

 

[U N Arrator]

If more people read the Sport there'd be more children who were born as fish fingers, lost Luftwaffe airmen found on Mars and Nessie would be a national treasure.

The Sport is run by liberals who think ordinary people are stupid. In this, they have everything in common with right wing and left wing zealots.

 

[DotCommunist]

before and after the second world war the purges removed enough of these people into labour camps to cow the rest and rid us of the die hards. If Joe had not lost his grip due to auto-sclerosis we'd be speaking mingrellian by now

 

[Firky]

banned before Christmas I reckon.

 

[The39thStep]

I mean, does anybody really believe that if it wasn't for the likes of the Mail, the attitudes it seeks to reflect and exploit would somehow disappear?

It used to be the Sun that was the problem. Have the liberals now sought out the Mail?

 

[U N Arrator]

It used to be the Sun that was the problem. Have the liberals now sought out the Mail?

Basically, if it wasn't for the likes of those papers, everybody would have the opportunity to become more like the average poster on here. And then it would probably all work out for the best.

 

[Firky]

I will bite: what is the average poster like, Mr Arrator?

 

[DotCommunist]

It used to be the Sun that was the problem. Have the liberals now sought out the Mail?

you aren't allowed to rip the sun anymore as it is the working mans paper. I don't make the rules

 

[U N Arrator]

I will bite: what is the average poster like, Mr Arrator?

You don't need me to tell you, surely.

But as I said, reading the boards does make you realise that it would clearly be a lot better if the world was made in their image.

 

[Firky]

U75 on a global scale?

It wouldn't work, loads of people would be lost in the World Circumcision War, leaders would be lost in the great Apple Android War and we'd be catapulted into dystopia when the hummus in the fridge went off.

 

[Ming]

One of the top YouTube comments is 'Would stick my soldier in her egg'. Filth, worlds going to hell,etc..

 

[The39thStep]

you aren't allowed to rip the sun anymore as it is the working mans paper. I don't make the rules

Its been the working mans paper for years ever since the decline of the Mirror. It used to be blamed for racism, people voting Tory, sexism and everything else but then of course you find that people who read the Sun don't believe everything they read in the Sun.

The Mail is an easy and lazy target.

 

[albionism]

Wish we could become another star on the flag of the US OF A.than being part of a united Europe. What a total farce. At least our cousins across the pond know how to treat low life.

 

[Firky]

One of the top YouTube comments is 'Would stick my soldier in her egg'. Filth, worlds going to hell,etc..

Is that for the Hovis advert?

 

[U N Arrator]

Wish we could become another star on the flag of the US OF A.than being part of a united Europe. What a total farce. At least our cousins across the pond know how to treat low life.

Similar attitudes can often come from working class Labour voters, or those who don't vote at all. Mail-reading types are not a breed apart.

 

[Ming]

Is that for the Hovis advert?

Yeah!

 

[Firky]

Yeah!

She has a single out, which has only got about 100 views



Her advert however has been watched by pervs like myself the world over.

 

[Ming]

Hovis have changed man...

 

[Badger Kitten]

Obligatory mention of the famous Daily Mail Headline Generator

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/