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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I was in a local greasy spoon recently and there were a couple of newspapers laying about. One Daily Mail and one Daily Mirror.

I asked the guy near the Mirror if he had finished reading it and he said "what's wrong with that one over there".

I said I preferred the Mirror and I was gobsmacked that he then said I shouldn't read the Mirror as they tell lies, unlike the Mail.

I didn't realise some people actually believe everything that the Mail print. ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aren't both yellow journalism, anyway?

Neither are the better option.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Aren't both yellow journalism, anyway?

Neither are the better option. "

I agree that all tabloids are biased, I just happen to think The Mirror is the best of a bad bunch.

The Star, Sun, Express, Mail, Mirror...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I was in a local greasy spoon recently and there were a couple of newspapers laying about. One Daily Mail and one Daily Mirror.

I asked the guy near the Mirror if he had finished reading it and he said "what's wrong with that one over there".

I said I preferred the Mirror and I was gobsmacked that he then said I shouldn't read the Mirror as they tell lies, unlike the Mail.

I didn't realise some people actually believe everything that the Mail print. .."

Either of those publications are just fine for wrapping your chips in or, in an emergency, for wiping your arse with.

I wouldn't read them, though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All the broadsheets have their own bias too, it's not limited to tabloids. Some papers are just more blatant than others.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"All the broadsheets have their own bias too, it's not limited to tabloids. Some papers are just more blatant than others. "

Is the I a broadsheet or a tabloid?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All the broadsheets have their own bias too, it's not limited to tabloids. Some papers are just more blatant than others.

Is the I a broadsheet or a tabloid? "

If you mean Indepedent, it's now a tabloid. Used to be a broadsheet.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Errmmm...

BBC anyone?

It's pretty good.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"All the broadsheets have their own bias too, it's not limited to tabloids. Some papers are just more blatant than others.

Is the I a broadsheet or a tabloid?

If you mean Indepedent, it's now a tabloid. Used to be a broadsheet. "

Oh right. I thought they printed both! Thanks for that.

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"Errmmm...

BBC anyone?

It's pretty good."

Can you read the BBC in a cafe then?

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Errmmm...

BBC anyone?

It's pretty good."

Ladies and gentlemen. The winner of this weeks prize for joke of the week.

PMSL

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Errmmm...

BBC anyone?

It's pretty good.

Can you read the BBC in a cafe then?

Sorry to say the BBC is more biaed than ever, just compare any news report to sky news or channel4, that's my fav!

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"Errmmm...

BBC anyone?

It's pretty good.

Can you read the BBC in a cafe then?

Sorry to say the BBC is more biaed than ever, just compare any news report to sky news or channel4, that's my fav!

I suppose the beeb is broadly pro establishment, but would you expect anything else from a state owned news organ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All the broadsheets have their own bias too, it's not limited to tabloids. Some papers are just more blatant than others.

Is the I a broadsheet or a tabloid?

If you mean Indepedent, it's now a tabloid. Used to be a broadsheet. "

Didn't it change its title to 'I' ? Or was that something different?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I sometimes read The Star for the lols

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All the broadsheets have their own bias too, it's not limited to tabloids. Some papers are just more blatant than others.

Is the I a broadsheet or a tabloid?

If you mean Indepedent, it's now a tabloid. Used to be a broadsheet.

Oh right. I thought they printed both! Thanks for that. "

they do print both, the I is just a briefer,simpler format..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Errmmm...

BBC anyone?

It's pretty good.

Can you read the BBC in a cafe then?

Sorry to say the BBC is more biaed than ever, just compare any news report to sky news or channel4, that's my fav!

It is biased, but so are C4 and Sky!

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

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By *eepster69Man
over a year ago

Dumfries

I miss the Daily Sport.

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

"Errmmm...

BBC anyone?

It's pretty good.

Can you read the BBC in a cafe then?

Sorry to say the BBC is more biaed than ever, just compare any news report to sky news or channel4, that's my fav!

I know, they've become so much more right-wing the past few years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades."

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All the broadsheets have their own bias too, it's not limited to tabloids. Some papers are just more blatant than others.

Is the I a broadsheet or a tabloid?

If you mean Indepedent, it's now a tabloid. Used to be a broadsheet.

Didn't it change its title to 'I' ? Or was that something different?"

That's a related publication. I get 3 sources from the Independent on my news feed at work.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective."

You can extend that logically to almost any idea really.

The Mail was famously fond of Moseley and thought Adolf was a pretty decent chap, pre 1939.

You could say that the ideologies of both weren't abhorrent to their supporters, but I have no idea what that proves.

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective."

Indeed, there are many Jew haters around.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

Indeed, there are many Jew haters around. "

lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

You can extend that logically to almost any idea really.

The Mail was famously fond of Moseley and thought Adolf was a pretty decent chap, pre 1939.

You could say that the ideologies of both weren't abhorrent to their supporters, but I have no idea what that proves. "

It doesn't prove anything; I find a lot of its positions abhorrent myself. But it's not an objective concept. If I was from Liverpool I dare say I might find some of the Sun's views more repulsive.

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

Indeed, there are many Jew haters around. "

I think they got over their Jew hatred and now hate Muslims instead.

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

Indeed, there are many Jew haters around.

I think they got over their Jew hatred and now hate Muslims instead. "

That's why I love the Timeline of Shame.

The DM conveniently overlooks its own history, but I don't.

The language being used by the DM about the refugees today is the same as the language that they used about the Jews.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As long as I understand the bias of each news agency, getting different persectives helps me draw my own conclusions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"As long as I understand the bias of each news agency, getting different persectives helps me draw my own conclusions "

I quite enjoy reading sources I don't necessarily agree with. Challenges my assumptions about things.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"As long as I understand the bias of each news agency, getting different persectives helps me draw my own conclusions

I quite enjoy reading sources I don't necessarily agree with. Challenges my assumptions about things. "

Exactly and helps me to become aware of my own unconscious biases

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By *razedcatMan
over a year ago

London / Herts

Every news outlet has a bias. Every human being is at least slightly biased. We all interpret events differently.

The trick is to collate as much information as possible from different sources to develop a reasonable point of view.

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By *isdirtygirlCouple
over a year ago

somewhere out there

"As long as I understand the bias of each news agency, getting different persectives helps me draw my own conclusions "

Agreed. I read everything from the heavily biased Guardian to the equally heavily biased DM. Every paper in this country had it's own bias and agenda.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Priceless! Mr W

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

The Guardian is not comparable to the DM in the level of bias and vitriol.

It's comparable to the Torygraph.

Th DM stands alone.

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

Indeed, there are many Jew haters around. "

There are also many terrorist sympathisers and terrorist apologists around...step forward the Guardian newspaper.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spot the Daily Mail reader.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

Indeed, there are many Jew haters around.

There are also many terrorist sympathisers and terrorist apologists around...step forward the Guardian newspaper. "

interesting view...which columnists in particular have these views do you think?

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

Indeed, there are many Jew haters around.

There are also many terrorist sympathisers and terrorist apologists around...step forward the Guardian newspaper.

interesting view...which columnists in particular have these views do you think?"

All of them, lol. Owen Jones sticks out as being particularly annoying though, has he reached puberty yet?

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"All newspapers have their agenda.

But The Mail is a different sort, it's pernicious and vile with it's agenda.

My Twitter feed had a Daily Mail 'Timeline of shame' a few months ago, showing all the abhorrent positions they've taken over the decades.

But presumably you appreciate that those positions are abhorrent to you, but wouldn't be abhorrent to someone who agreed with them? It's subjective.

Indeed, there are many Jew haters around.

There are also many terrorist sympathisers and terrorist apologists around...step forward the Guardian newspaper. "

there is a vast difference between giving an overall view as to how people are radicalised and become terrorists and our involvement in that with messed up foreign policy etc and being an apologist..

as anyone who reads not only the guardian but Peter Hitchens will know..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love the Sun

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

Spot the Guardian reader.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Spot the person making claims they can't substantiate..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Spot the Guardian reader. "

Tbh I just think it's dumb to affiliate yourself with a particular news source. I have to read news clippings from every media outlet

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