why the daily mail's going down the drain

[Ralph Llama]

Always on the bleeding edge

 

[David Clapson]

Good God. Geordie Greig! A friend there tells me that staff are gutted and expecting much cost cutting, i.e. sackings.

Geordie is supposed to be a remainer. It's very hard to imagine a U turn. Dacre's rabid Brexit headlines don't exactly leave room for any ambivalence.

 

[Pickman's model]

Good God. Geordie Greig! A friend there tells me that staff are gutted and expecting much cost cutting, i.e. sackings.

Geordie is supposed to be a remainer. It's very hard to imagine a U turn. Dacre's rabid Brexit headlines don't exactly leave room for any ambivalence.

It's not that hard to imagine a U turn on brexit - but improved spelling and proper English? Impossible!

 

[stavros]

Will he be leaving his Kensington pad and move north? His missus is part of a team building a theatre in Liverpool.

Has he still got his land in Scotland? You know, the stuff he was getting massive EU subsidies for?

Private Eye has been covering the in-fighting between Dacre and Greig for ages, and if memory serves me Greig is the favourite of the owner's wife. They reckon she's been wanting him elevated to the hotseat for a while, although what she gains from it I've no idea.

 

[David Clapson]

Apparently she has liberal friends and was embarrassed by Dacre's Brexit ranting.

 

[stavros]

I wonder who'll get the glorious honour of being the last staff member to be called a cunt by him.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Poi E]

I've been thinking that I can't find anything in the English language like the Express or the Mail. Is British journalism alone in having mass-market racist, reactionary, where-the-fuck-did-the-world-go journalism? I know other countries have their crazy papers, but the way that people in the UK consume this stuff is fucking freakish.

 

[stavros]

I've been thinking that I can't find anything in the English language like the Express or the Mail. Is British journalism alone in having mass-market racist, reactionary, where-the-fuck-did-the-world-go journalism? I know other countries have their crazy papers, but the way that people in the UK consume this stuff is fucking freakish.

I read French media online and watch their new podcasts, really to improve my skills in the language. I can't remember the full context, or even whether it was in either of the last two GEs or the referendum, but in a discussion show they mentioned the seemingly unique vitriol in the UK press. I'm not sure other developed countries have papers which run their own policy campaigns, or "crusades" as the Express terms them.

 

[Pickman's model]

and down the drain we go

Daughter of Hitler's favourite actress claims her mother slept with German Nazi leader | Daily Mail Online

 

[Pickman's model]

i don't see how you can get lower than making out a story that's 42 years auld is new, especially when it's a story about your mum doing the dirty on eva braun

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[stavros]

No mention of petrol prices being at their second lowest annual price in real terms this century, and how duty has been frozen for over eight years.

I look forward to the DM giving the whole front page to rail pricing soon.

 

[stavros]

I saw today's headline and immediately thought it referred to the office ambience when Dacre was in charge.

 

[Streathamite]

I've been thinking that I can't find anything in the English language like the Express or the Mail. Is British journalism alone in having mass-market racist, reactionary, where-the-fuck-did-the-world-go journalism? I know other countries have their crazy papers, but the way that people in the UK consume this stuff is fucking freakish.

If it helps, the Great consolation is that they don't consume it half as much as they once did. Newspaper circulations have been halved all across the board over the past decade or so

 

[Nine Bob Note]

If it helps, the Great consolation is that they don't consume it half as much as they once did. Newspaper circulations have been halved all across the board over the past decade or so

Isn't Mail Online the most visited 'news' site in the world?

 

[Poi E]

The real issue I have with the tabloids is that they're too bloody small when masking areas to spray paint. FT is the best and with good newsprint that doesn't tear as easily or bleed as much dye on surfaces.

 

[stavros]

Isn't Mail Online the most visited 'news' site in the world?

I believe a lot of that stems from the Sidebar of Shame, which is celebrity stuff. Whether visitors for the this reason delve at all into the editorial line of the paper is unknown.

 

[Pickman's model]

The real issue I have with the tabloids is that they're too bloody small when masking areas to spray paint. FT is the best and with good newsprint that doesn't tear as easily or bleed as much dye on surfaces.

They're just the wrong size for litter trays, the berliner-size guardian was perfect but now they've fucked with that

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Poi E]

The real story is the frightful prices some tradesmen charge for a front door.

 

[Dogsauce]

The real story is the frightful prices some tradesmen charge for a front door.

That’s a three hundred quid fuck ugly UPVC front door with cheap hardware as favoured by shitty landlords across the nation. Someone’s definitely been had.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I'm impressed that he managed to rip up those floor tiles.

 

[Libertad]

I'm impressed that he managed to rip up those floor tiles.

He did a good job on the skirting board and he managed to remove the dado rail.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Maybe the cat changed the front door, tiles, skirting & dado, to frame that pooch?

 

[Pickman's model]

sir edward leigh has some explaining to do

Brexit vote D-Day as May faces defeat and a vote of no confidence | Daily Mail Online

 

[brogdale]

sir edward leigh has some explaining to do
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Brexit vote D-Day as May faces defeat and a vote of no confidence | Daily Mail Online

 

[Poi E]

Power mad cunt May is now called a "servant of the people".

 

[stavros]

Power mad cunt May is now called a "servant of the people".

Does anyone know how the readership have reacted to the 180-turn made by the Mail since Grieg replaced Dacre? After several decades of EU-bashing, it must be quite challenging for any preconceptions which had been cultivated.

 

[andysays]

Daily Mail demands browser warning U-turn

The Daily Mail is calling for a web browser alert that criticises its journalism to be changed. The NewsGuard plug-in currently brings up a warning that says the newspaper's website "generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability". It has given this advice since August. But the matter came to prominence last week, after Microsoft updated its Edge browser app for Android and iOS devices and built in NewsGuard.