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Time For The Daily Mail To Apologise?
A YouGov poll reveals that 69% of the nation thinks that the Daily Mail owes Ed Milliband an apology for trashing his father.
And more tellingly, 57% of the paper's own readership think the same.
In what other circumstances could a national paper get away with dancing on the grave of a war hero?
And more tellingly, 57% of the paper's own readership think the same.
In what other circumstances could a national paper get away with dancing on the grave of a war hero?
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I fail to understand why people keep trying to link the "disrespect" shown to Thatcher on the announcement that she was dead and the allegations made by the DM against Ralph Miliband. Please explain, because otherwise to me it seems you are just trying to create a false equivalence in an effort to rationalise what the DM did. Even if your false equivalence were...
09:40 Tue 08th Oct 2013
No AOG.
Just...no.
You have accused me of being a Daily Mail reader.
I am not.
And you what I've just realised - I find that accusation as insulting as being called racist or sexist.
You also accuse me of using the Daily Mail as a news source whenever it suits my agenda.
Again - not true.
Since July I've used links to the Daily Mail three times. Once I explained that the link had been sent to me, and on the other two occasions I was raising a critical thread on the Mail's journalistic standards.
Usually, if a story is reported in the Mail, I will go to the Telegraph's website to find out what the facts are and then the BBC to verify them.
Just...no.
You have accused me of being a Daily Mail reader.
I am not.
And you what I've just realised - I find that accusation as insulting as being called racist or sexist.
You also accuse me of using the Daily Mail as a news source whenever it suits my agenda.
Again - not true.
Since July I've used links to the Daily Mail three times. Once I explained that the link had been sent to me, and on the other two occasions I was raising a critical thread on the Mail's journalistic standards.
Usually, if a story is reported in the Mail, I will go to the Telegraph's website to find out what the facts are and then the BBC to verify them.
Sp, if you call Ralph Miliband a 'war hero' your definition of the phrase is different from mine. He volunteered and he served. That is all. You're in danger of sounding like the Daily Mail, which regularly describes old soldiers in difficulties as 'war heroes' when they haven't got a gallantry or bravery medal to their name nor even been mentioned in despatches. They have only served, volunteers or not, in some conflict.
AOG, do you not see that accusing anyone, right or left, of being a Daily Mail reader, if by that you are suggest that they read the articles unquestioningly, without thinking to look for journalistic devices, other evidence for the claim in the first sentence, or inconsistency in the piece, is a grave insult?
Do you not accept the YouGov figures of 69% and 57% ? 69% is well over half. As the Daily Mail's readership must surely represent the middle of the population, it would make sense that over half of that, 57%, would vote like the 69% of the rest , wouldn't it, naturally assuming that far left and far right balance each other out? If you doubt any of the above, please say why.
Do you not accept the YouGov figures of 69% and 57% ? 69% is well over half. As the Daily Mail's readership must surely represent the middle of the population, it would make sense that over half of that, 57%, would vote like the 69% of the rest , wouldn't it, naturally assuming that far left and far right balance each other out? If you doubt any of the above, please say why.
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