The daily mail
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The daily mail
I was going to post this in the shooting thread, but it didn't seem appropriate to introduce a flippant tangent .......
Anyway, slightly tongue in cheek, i do wish people would stop quoting and posting links to the Daily Wail. I resent driving up their website traffic and getting sucked into the sidebar of shame. Those photos of Matthew mcconaughey have quite spoilt my day.
On a slightly more serious note, where do most people get their serious news? I tend to gravitate to the Beeb and the Grauniad, with a daily helping of the websites of my local newspapers from "home" in the uk and USA. I seem to be reasonably up to date on both sides of the Atlantic....
Anyway, slightly tongue in cheek, i do wish people would stop quoting and posting links to the Daily Wail. I resent driving up their website traffic and getting sucked into the sidebar of shame. Those photos of Matthew mcconaughey have quite spoilt my day.
On a slightly more serious note, where do most people get their serious news? I tend to gravitate to the Beeb and the Grauniad, with a daily helping of the websites of my local newspapers from "home" in the uk and USA. I seem to be reasonably up to date on both sides of the Atlantic....
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Re: The daily mail
Beeb, Grauniad and Private Eye.
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Re: The daily mail
I resent driving up their website traffic and getting sucked into the sidebar of shame. Those photos of Matthew mcconaughey have quite spoilt my day.
On a slightly more serious note, where do most people get their serious news? I tend to gravitate to the Beeb and the Grauniad, with a daily helping of the websites of my local newspapers from "home" in the uk and USA. I seem to be reasonably up to date on both sides of the Atlantic....
On a slightly more serious note, where do most people get their serious news? I tend to gravitate to the Beeb and the Grauniad, with a daily helping of the websites of my local newspapers from "home" in the uk and USA. I seem to be reasonably up to date on both sides of the Atlantic....
Facebook and Sickepedia are good places to get current events.
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Re: The daily mail
BBC, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Breitbart.com, Andrew Sullivan.
I always look at the Daily Mail. I like that thing where they CAPITALIZE one random word in the headline.
I always look at the Daily Mail. I like that thing where they CAPITALIZE one random word in the headline.
#6
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Guardian. BBC (which is the Guardian but dumbed down), Andrew Sullivan, Mother Jones, Comment In The Press, FrumFeed, Huffpo, Althouse, Instapundit, LGF, NPR News.
Rinse, Repeat.
Rinse, Repeat.
#7
Re: The daily mail
Guardian, Independent, BBC, Mother Jones, NPR.
I never really 'knew' people who read the Daily Mail till I started here at BE. Obviously I knew people must have read it, but I never came in to contact with them. It is a whole bit of British culture that I managed to miss.
I never really 'knew' people who read the Daily Mail till I started here at BE. Obviously I knew people must have read it, but I never came in to contact with them. It is a whole bit of British culture that I managed to miss.
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http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5eBT6...%3D5eBT6OSr1TI
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Re: The daily mail
Guardian, Independent, BBC, Mother Jones, NPR.
I never really 'knew' people who read the Daily Mail till I started here at BE. Obviously I knew people must have read it, but I never came in to contact with them. It is a whole bit of British culture that I managed to miss.
I never really 'knew' people who read the Daily Mail till I started here at BE. Obviously I knew people must have read it, but I never came in to contact with them. It is a whole bit of British culture that I managed to miss.
The moment someone quotes the DM their argument is completely undermined. It's quite funny because they just don't get what a rag it is. I like to send them a link to the Daily Mail song to help them work it out for themselves.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5eBT6...%3D5eBT6OSr1TI
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5eBT6...%3D5eBT6OSr1TI
Secondly, isn't the whole DM phenomenon a bit tongue in cheek, just an ironical take on popular culture and its intersection with news? I assume none of the people who work at the DM take it seriously, for instance.
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That's the problem though, people who know nothing about the UK read the DM then assume that's what life's really like there. I can't count how many people have told me the UK is the most violent place in the world after South Africa...
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Telegraph,Mail,Independent,Guardian,Mirror,Evening Standard,NY Times, Village Voice, LA Times,The Miami Herald,Sydney Morning Herald,Irish Times,Irish Independent,BBC mainly Radio Four,CNN,Fox News.
That just about covers the spectrum of news and opinion.It takes me about an hour and three cups of Joe most mornings to skim-read the lot.
That just about covers the spectrum of news and opinion.It takes me about an hour and three cups of Joe most mornings to skim-read the lot.
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Re: The daily mail
Beeb, Grauniad, Slate, HuffPo and I admit it, DM. Can't resist some of the train wreck stories on there for pure entertainment value.
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Re: The daily mail
Maybe it's the difference between the online site and the newspaper. The website is tacky, sensationalist. The paper was more middle of the road I found, not sensationlist like the Sun but not dull like the Telegraph.