Wouldn't it be a better country without the daily mail ?

[Mick-Talbot]

Question by proxy.



Chap from London asks
Wouldn't it be a better country without the daily mail ?


After the daily Mail asks Mo Farah if he would have preferred to have won gold for Somalia.

[jno]

the Mail ran a list of "plastic Brits" (immigrant competitors) before the Games. It included Mo and Bradley Wiggins.

http://www.dailymail....61-plastic-Brits.html

[FredPuli43]

Better without the Daily Mail? The worry is that some people may take it seriously, ill-thought arguments, prejudices, headline stories with only a tenuous relationship to fact, and all, but I doubt whether anyone really thinks 'It's surprising news to me, but it's in the Daily Mail so it must be true'. They agree with the Daily Mail already and the paper plays to the readership, picking and slanting its stories to suit their known tastes and prejudices. If it were not there, nothing would be any different. Its readership is disproportionately old. As they die , the paper will have to change to find a replacement readership, with different views, or die itself.

[Gromit]

Does that mean we have a 'plastic' London Mayor?

[bazwillrun]

and you think papers like The Telegraph and The Guardian, Times Indy, Sun, Mirror, etc etc etc,c dont slant their stories to suit etc etc etc, dont fabricate, exagerate etc etc etc

[sp1814]

Ha ha ha - just read the plastic Brits article.

Surprised it's still there...the Mail normally removes articles that they find subsequently embarrassing (like the overtly racist Rick Dewsbury article):

http://tabloid-watch....its-then-removes.html

[ll_billym]

The Daily Mail, along with just about everything else in this world, exists because enough people are willing to give their money to it to enable it to do so.

It really isn't their fault, they are just supplying a demand. I don't really like some of the things I get involved with at work - we supply a lot of defence contractors - but I get on with it because it pays for my life and if I wasn't doing it somebody else would. If the Daily Mail were axed tomorrow another news outlet would step in and fulfill the need for jingoistic and over-sensationalised news stories.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

[bazwillrun]

"(like the overtly racist Rick Dewsbury article"

youre entitled to your opinions

[FredPuli43]

baz, all papers appeal to a certain type of readership, but when has The Times exaggerated, fabricated etc ?

[joeluke]

What's the big deal with the Mail asking this question?

It is his country of birth after all

[craft1948]

But I'd have nothing to read........................

[Mick-Talbot]

Mo's reply

"Why ? ..... I'm British"


Mo 1 - Daily Mail 0

[sp1814]

joeluke

If Mo ran for Somalia, the Mail would criticise him for not running for Team GB, and wouldno doubt question his loyalty to Britain.

Damned if he does, damned ifhe doesn't.

[cathfromsaron]

*shakes head*

not for me, i love the crossword! but could convert to whoever prints the complier next!

and don't read the rubbish bits, is my advice!

[anotheoldgit]

/// Its readership is disproportionately old. As they die , the paper will have to change to find a replacement readership, with different views, or die itself. ///

The paper is also read by a higher number of women than men, 53% of it's readers are female, compared to 47% of men.

Since the Daily Mail was first published in 1896, I would have thought that all it's old readership had died by now.

[FredPuli43]

And, aog, the readership figures for The Guardian are exactly the other way round: 57 per cent male, 43 per cent female [source: National Readership Survey for the last period of 2011] !

The Mail does appeal to women, and tries hard to; at times, it seems like a woman's magazine with news attached, the Femail section being a large part of the paper. Don't think anyone on here, or anywhere, is ever concerned about the Daily Mail's articles for women . It's the news section which is written for the older age groups and which plays to prejudices, which gives rise to the question given in the OP.

[FredPuli43]

^is quite the other way round^ not 'exactly ' !

[emmie]

life would be better without all newspapers, they all distort the truth to their own ends.

[dotty.]

well my kids must be plastic brits cos their great grandmother was german, and my grandson's grandma is greek cypriot, would he be a plastic brit if he went on to play basketball for GB at the 2020 games, (which is his ambition)

[mightyWBA]

The Mail on Sunday is the most popular newspaper around here.
I know because I'm a paper"boy".
Mo Farah would indeed have been running for Somalia if it hadn't had its troubles but he chose to represent us..Place of birth has nothing to do with it these days,it's if you live here.
As for Wiggins he left Belgium when he was 2 years old and moved to London,his Mother is English and his old man was an Australian.
Can't we enjoy our success instead of nit picking?

I happen to think the Mail is a good paper and better than most of the others.

[eyethenkyew]

What's all the fuss about? England has a long history of snaffling anyone with a smidgen of sporting talent as 'one of our own': Zola Budd, Kevin Pietersen, Basil D'Oliveira, Tony Greig, John Barnes, Mike Catt, Andrew Strauss, Matt Prior, Jonathan Trott, Andy Flower etc etc - the list is endless.

So the emergence of the 'Plastic Brit' is certainly nothing new.