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How do you picture a Daily Mail reader? Page 2

Anyone on here read Flat Earth News by Nick Davies?

I found the section on the Daily Mail fascinating and enlightening. My opinion of the Mail was always that it had an ultra right-wing agenda and that it was trying to impose its world-view onto its readership. What I learned from that book, is that the Mail itself has no real political agenda. It simply identifies a large section of British society - upper working class/lower middle class, white, Christian, conservative and riddled with prejudice and bigotries, and then tells them exactly what they want to hear in order to keep them reading. I think this is even scarier.

Daily Mail readers are tall, handsome, impeccably dressed with a confident demeanour, purposeful stride and a nice big, fairly new car. I am also very rich -- oops, gave it away.

Quote: Trabs @ October 7 2010, 9:45 AM BST

Anyone on here read Flat Earth News by Nick Davies?

I started reading that book but was too frightened to carry on!

Hit them with a picture frame

Quote: john lucas 101 @ October 7 2010, 9:50 AM BST

I started reading that book but was too frightened to carry on!

Yes, it can have that effect. What also terrified me was to the extent that broadsheets use the same methods as tabloids for gaining "news" stories, and printing with lack of research for the original source.

Quote: Trabs @ October 7 2010, 10:07 AM BST

Yes, it can have that effect. What also terrified me was to the extent that broadsheets use the same methods as tabloids for gaining "news" stories, and printing with lack of research for the original source.

One of the many reasons I don't bother with a daily paper.

Quote: Trabs @ October 7 2010, 9:45 AM BST

Anyone on here read Flat Earth News by Nick Davies?

Yep, it was the Ian Hislop blurb that made me buy it.

The perception of DM readers (not all of them obviously) is that they are easily outraged and against a lot of things without realy understanding their own arguments. You can't have a debate with a DMite because they don't care about understanding opposing views, just that their outrage is the correct stance to take.

Similar thing applied to the people who write into The Sun.

A typical Daily Mail reader

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And this is what she's reading:

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Quote: Marc P @ October 7 2010, 9:15 AM BST

It does indeed, I have recently been tackling The Times crossword too - and also The Week's. For light relief I dash off the EDP.

I gave up trying the Times one.
I can only do a bit of the Daily Mail one because you get used to how the Clues work if you persevere.

Is it a cryptic crossword?
I despise them and all they stand for Angry

Quote: zooo @ October 7 2010, 10:08 PM BST

Is it a cryptic crossword?
I despise them and all they stand for Angry

I think I know this one
How many letters?

Quote: zooo @ October 7 2010, 10:08 PM BST

Is it a cryptic crossword?
I despise them and all they stand for Angry

It's about time our resident lexical luminary Kevin Murphy compiled and posted another crossword here.

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ October 7 2010, 11:01 PM BST

I think I know this one
How many letters?

Zoophobia (I think)

Quote: Lee Henman @ October 7 2010, 2:51 PM BST
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That looks like someone has posed a sex doll.

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