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A traditionally [[conservative]] tabloid (by UK standards), the Mail is currently blaming the [[European Union]] and European immigration to [[Britain]] for the economic crisis in Britain. It likes to incite its readers against minorities with sensationalist headlines of the benefits immigrants receive and frequently reports how the country is going to the dogs and we're all going to die, while at the same time wondering why people are voting for the [[British National Party]]. It is exceptionally rare for the main headline to be unlinked to asylum seekers or "dangerous" foreigners in some way or another, regardless of the context of the story.
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A traditionally [[conservative]] tabloid (by UK standards), the Mail is currently blaming the [[European Union]] and European immigration to [[Britain]] for the economic crisis in Britain. It likes to incite its readers against minorities with sensationalist headlines about the benefits immigrants receive and the threat they pose to British culture and security. It  frequently reports that the country is going to the dogs and we're all going to die, while at the same time wondering why people are voting for the [[British National Party]]. It is exceptionally rare for the main headline to be unlinked to asylum seekers or "dangerous" foreigners in some way or another, regardless of the context of the story. In addition to Johnny Foreigner, other popular editorial villains include gypsies, the workshy, Young People Today, the public sector (especially the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]), and anyone to the left of Norman Tebbit.
  
The Mail also has an obsession over house prices and how they change, in ''either'' direction. Recent drops in UK house prices have sparked massive rage and panic across ''Mail'' headlines and front pages, despite these drops being a mere fraction the size of the insane ''increases'' that have occurred over the past few years.
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Although these days the Daily Mail is rabidly Euroskeptic, this was not always its editorial stance. In fact, during the 1930s, the paper was a big fan of a [[Third Reich|united European superstate]]. However, due to a [[World War II|deterioration in Britain's relationship]] with the [[Adolf Hitler|Mail's favourite European statesman]], the paper was obliged to reverse its stance on the issue rather suddenly in late 1939.
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The Mail also has an obsession with house prices and how they change, in ''either'' direction. Recent drops in UK house prices have sparked massive rage and panic across ''Mail'' headlines and front pages, despite these drops being a mere fraction the size of the insane ''increases'' that have occurred over the past few years.
  
 
==Writers==
 
==Writers==

Revision as of 22:39, 18 February 2010

A spoof Daily Mail front page.

The Daily Mail is an unpleasant sheet of toilet paper a daily newspaper in the United Kingdom.

The Daily Mail is to the U.K. what the New York Post is to the United States, and what the Drudge Report is to the Internet: to wit, gossipy tabloid journalism for those who cannot digest serious news, with a flippantly reactionary editorial stance. Its Sunday counterpart is the Mail on Sunday.

Contents

Viewpoints

A real Daily Mail front page. Did you know that blacks have 18 more kids than middle-class white people?
  • Anti-immigration
  • Anti-welfare
  • Pro-cancer sensationalism
  • Anti-government control
  • Pro-complaining-about-anything-and-everything
  • Anti-negroz[1]

A traditionally conservative tabloid (by UK standards), the Mail is currently blaming the European Union and European immigration to Britain for the economic crisis in Britain. It likes to incite its readers against minorities with sensationalist headlines about the benefits immigrants receive and the threat they pose to British culture and security. It frequently reports that the country is going to the dogs and we're all going to die, while at the same time wondering why people are voting for the British National Party. It is exceptionally rare for the main headline to be unlinked to asylum seekers or "dangerous" foreigners in some way or another, regardless of the context of the story. In addition to Johnny Foreigner, other popular editorial villains include gypsies, the workshy, Young People Today, the public sector (especially the BBC), and anyone to the left of Norman Tebbit.

Although these days the Daily Mail is rabidly Euroskeptic, this was not always its editorial stance. In fact, during the 1930s, the paper was a big fan of a united European superstate. However, due to a deterioration in Britain's relationship with the Mail's favourite European statesman, the paper was obliged to reverse its stance on the issue rather suddenly in late 1939.

The Mail also has an obsession with house prices and how they change, in either direction. Recent drops in UK house prices have sparked massive rage and panic across Mail headlines and front pages, despite these drops being a mere fraction the size of the insane increases that have occurred over the past few years.

Writers

The Mail's writers include the stubbornly vitriolic conservative (again, by UK standards) Peter Hitchens,[2] professional preacher Amanda Platell[3] and Melanie Phillips,[4] amongst numerous others, all of whom can turn a fly taking a shit on a scrapheap into a national outrage that threatens the very fabric of society itself. Whenever a mass health scare happens, you can almost guarantee that these three write more words on the subject than any informed and qualified science correspondent. Hitchens was certainly at the forefront of bringing Tony Blair's son Leo into the arguments about the safety of the MMR vaccine; indeed, he went on about the kid and harassed Downing Street about it on an almost daily basis.

Health

Cancer

The Mail is known for obsessing over dangers, from health scares (such as with MMR vaccine) to paedophiles. With cancer, the Mail have found possibly their greatest asset in attempting to scare their readers into doing a lot of crazy shit. Among the items claimed by the paper to cause cancer (based on "scientific" research) are mouth wash, oral sex, Pringles, and facebook.[5] For the terminally confused (the Mail are sometimes inconsistent on the subject at best) a near-enough full record of everything is available.[6]

HPV

In April 2009, blogger The Lay Scientist noted an interesting discrepancy in the policy of the Daily Mail. On the British edition, known for its scare stories on health, there was a demand to stop the compulsory administration of the HPV cervical cancer vaccine. This is fair enough as these people will go against any medical treatment given away for free. However, on the Irish edition there was a campaign to "roll out the vaccine now!" demanding that the government issue it immediately - as in Ireland, it wasn't going to be issued as freely as in Britain. The Daily Mail and the Irish Daily Mail are owned by the same people and have the same (alleged) editorial stance - this wasn't a case of The Guardian saying one thing and The Express saying another. This has lead to people declaring that the Mail's true position is "whatever the government is for, we're against".[7]

Best of the Daily Fail

Here is a selection of some of the best - for the wrong reasons - articles put out by the Daily Mail:

External links

See also

Footnotes

  1. They might sue us for libel...
  2. Daily Mail - Peter Hitchens
  3. Amanda Platell
  4. Daily Mail - Melanie Phillips
  5. 20 Strange Things The Daily Mail Say Will Cause Cancer
  6. Kill or cure - Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it.
  7. The Daily Mail: Campaigning both For AND Against the HPV Vaccine in Different Countries Simultaneously
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