what is the point of the DM?

COULD FOXES MAKE HARD-WORKING FAMILIES IMPOTENT?

WILL FACEBOOK GIVE BRITAIN'S SWANS SWINE FLU

I genuinely go on the Daily Mail website now just for a laugh. Some of the stuff they come out with is unbelievable. And every day, without fail, there's some new cause for cancer; cheese, or too many takeaways, or white chocolate or something stupid.

I don't think it would be possible to ban it as such, unless it genuinely broke the law (e.g. NOTW)

I hope the Daily Mail doesn't get banned. It's a right laugh reading their website. The ****e the come up with

I read it for the funsies. Sometimes they do touch on interesting topics but they always have their unique little twist of crazy added on to it... it's entertaining

The point is to make money.

To cater for the masses.

I genuinely go on the Daily Mail website now just for a laugh.

It's a right laugh reading their website. The ****e the come up with


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I read it for the funsies. Sometimes they do touch on interesting topics but they always have their unique little twist of crazy added on to it... it's entertaining

I sometimes flick through it to laugh at it too, but it's like religion, it's saying something is factual, when they don't really have any evidence for their claims. But it does also make me angry that they can get awy with calling it news when it's all lies.



But it shouldn't be allowed, it spreads lies and hate and scaremongers people gullible enough to believe it.



How? if you're gullible enough to believe it you should go back to school and learn that things need evidence beore you accept them.

But it shouldn't be allowed, it spreads lies and hate and scaremongers people gullible enough to believe it.

I genuinely go on the Daily Mail website now just for a laugh. Some of the stuff they come out with is unbelievable. And every day, without fail, there's some new cause for cancer; cheese, or too many takeaways, or white chocolate or something stupid.

I don't think it would be possible to ban it as such, unless it genuinely broke the law (e.g. NOTW)

This. There's a lot of entertainment to be found in the hysterical cries of its writers and readers.

I enjoy heading over to the Daily Telegraph for the same reason. They're just as hysterical, they just happen to be more articulate in their frenzy.

The Guardian can be just as bad at times, but not quite as frequently or on the same scale.

I would love some kind of inquiry into the Daily Mail where have to present their non-existent evidence for their articles. So many people read the DM (ironically though, of course) that it will continue to thrive. People slag it off all the time and yet read it religiously 'to laugh at it'. If everyone stopped reading, maybe it would stop printing.

Exactly for this reason! I go to the website occasionally (normally through a TSR link) and after I've read the article I go straight to the comments and look at the best and worst rated. Normally the best rated comment is some badly spelt, poorly punctuated working-class drivel centred around racist or xenophobic views. It brings a smile to the face to see such swathes of comments filled with rampant idiocy.

Also, it's widely known that the paper is targeted towards the middle-class.

Agreed with you up until this point. Racism, xenophobia and poor-punctuation are not exclusively working-class traits. Also, it's widely known that the paper is targeted towards the middle-class.

This is a myth - whilst the paper does have a middle-class readership to an extent, it's aimed mainly at upper working class/lower middle class people who feel like they're too clever to read The Sun but not intelligent enough to read The Daily Telegraph/The Times, your average middle class person is more likely to read a broadsheet.