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[–]jet199 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

In think the thing the Mail does is they print everything whether it agrees with their agenda or not, which a lot of more respectable papers don't do. This is why they sometimes end up printing conflict medical research results on the same day.

I also wonder if Americans don't realise that the Mail is a solidly middle class paper with a big female and minority readership. Their moaning about immigration and campaigning against the Stephen Lawrence killers at the same time make sense when you realise their target audience is small business owners and housewives, not the working class. The last time I bought a hard copy of the Mail they literally had 3 puff pieces about immigrant businessmen in the middle pages. If you only see the cherrypicked reactionary stories the left take offence at or the internet viral weird stories then you would be really surprised at the content of the printed paper.

[–]Greykittymomma 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Just reading many of the articles from Daily Mail give me that sense. I judge articles based on the merit of the content included. I notice them pop up again and again with real news and people dismiss it because of the name at the top. Ridiculous. I even see things on Fox News that are reasonable from time to time but you can't really post those to folks without them thinking you ONLY read them.

Like hello, I read more than one source... We ARE on the INTERNET!

I used to watch RT on YT, oops I'm on a list 🤪

[–]alladd 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I mean...I sort of dismiss them because of how ass ugly the site is, and all the terrible clickbait links, but I get what you mean.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

As I say, they have a big female readership which means lots of celeb stories one after another.

[–]alladd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is sort of funny that every "female oriented" publication like HuffPo or Jezebel ends up being bolstered with scummy gossip about celebs. I guess it's what they want to read.

[–]IMissPorn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's pretty much my impression, rag on them all you want for quality control (It's true, I've seen ridiculous typos and content copied from Wikipedia without attribution) or sensationalism, but in terms of bias, they are one of the best news sources around. They are equal opportunity sensationalists.