Would Anyone Actually Notice If The Dm Went Out Of Business?

[anotheoldgit]

This particular question was asked in an earlier thread.

Well we all know that some would just love it to disappear, they then would perhaps not have to see savage attacks such as this being reported on, well at least by those carried out by a certain section of the community that is.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3770709/Shocking-CCTV-shows-gang-10-youths-savagely-beating-teenager-knocking-CHAIR-steal-phone.html

To be fair though this was also reported on by both the Standard and the Telegraph,

[Mamyalynne]

I personally don't buy newspapers any more, so I wouldn't miss it of course.

As you say other papers have reported this and similar attacks.

Pity they have only now released the footage after all these months - better when people's memories are fresh.

Sure there's a reason.

[dave50]

Why do some people hate the DM so much?

[jackthehat]

///Why do some people hate the DM so much?///

Because it is a pernicious rag which makes its business pandering to, and propping up, the less attractive traits of the British character. It lights fires and then fans the flames all the while pointing the finger of blame elsewhere.

The 'News' will still be reported elsewhere.

[Gromit]

The market place for right wing views is crowded, and there are several existing newspapers that could easily take its place. The Express is certainly ploughing the same furrow, albeit in a lazy halfarsed way.

It would be missed because it is good in many areas. The readership for its paper version is old, and they won't be around for very much longer. The web version is acknowledged as one of the best in the world.
The super-wealthy closing the free press because they don't like what is being written, is clearly wrong and not in the public interest.

Having said that, the current litigation is clearly a gold digging persuit rather than an ideological one. Which probably makes it more dangerous for the Mail to fight and limit damage.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// The readership for its paper version is old, and they won't be around for very much longer. The web version is acknowledged as one of the best in the world. ///

The readership of any paper can be levelled mainly at the old (who as you have so unsympathetically announced "won't be around for very much longer")

But then how many young people buy or even read newspapers these days?

And no I do not buy or read newspapers, but I do read and post on news items mainly from one of the best in the world, The Daily Mail's web site.

[Zacs-Master]

I think the DM website is being praised for it's ease of use, rather than being a paragon of journalistic ideals.

[Gromit]

ZM,
More like it is praised because it is the only one making any money. (Due to the massive traffic it gets).

[Gromit]

// The readership of any paper can be levelled mainly at the old... But then how many young people buy or even read newspapers these days? //

Quite a few actually

// The Guardian has the youngest readership according to NRS, with 37.5 per cent of its 7.2m weekly readers aged between 15 and 34. Some 797,000 young adults read its newspaper each week, while 2.1m visit its website. //

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/ The Guardian has the youngest readership according to NRS, with 37.5 per cent of its 7.2m weekly readers aged between 15 and 34. Some 797,000 young adults read its newspaper each week, while 2.1m visit its website. //

Could it be it is because they are weaned onto it by their left-wing teachers and University lecturers?

Another reason of course is that they might be reading it whilst eating their fish and chips from it.

[Mamyalynne]

By 'eck, tis a good while since you could read your chip wrappers.

[Zacs-Master]

15 to 34 year olds don't eat fish n chips AOG. it's all wheatgrass and Quinoa now you know!( p.s. it must be 30 years since fish n chips were served in newspapers.)

[Gromit]

// Could it be it is because they are weaned onto it by their left-wing teachers and University lecturers? //

Must be. 15-35 year olds don't have any free will.

[jackthehat]

Perhaps in AOG's village of Much-Whinging-on-the-Stump they still serve their chips in newspaper wrappers.....?

///Could it be it is because they are weaned onto it by their left-wing teachers and University lecturers?///

I wonder if you'd be quite so placid if I were to insinuate that DM readers are indoctrinated by their Neo-nazi/Hitler youth leaders?

[hc4361]

When I read the Mail Online I have to enlarge the page to hide the 'sidebar of shame'. I really don't want to see or read about that sort of thing

[MargoTester]

Me - but then I only buy it for the crosswords and puzzles which I enjoy. I never actually look at the rest of it.

[ToraToraTora]

would anyone notice? well all the lefties for a start!

[jno]

they still serve their chips in newspaper wrappers

and pay with two old thruppeny bits...

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

I will ignore your personal insults, since I have come to expect them, from the likes of you.

/// I wonder if you'd be quite so placid if I were to insinuate that DM readers are indoctrinated by their Neo-nazi/Hitler youth leaders? ///

No because any reference to indoctrination from Hitler's leaders or the Nazis is most disgusting, and had you lived through that era, you would understand.

[jackthehat]

Not very placid at all.......I see.

[anotheoldgit]

MargoTester

You should try the Guardian you can gain many cross words from that paper.