Daily Mail Readers

[Doon frae Troon]

So sorry we seem to have got it wrong, it is the Express that takes the biscuit.


http://i100.independent.co.uk/artic...l-if-someone-voted-tory-or-labour--WywIXUvkbg

 

[Ethan]

Mail readers seem obsessed by cancer and immigration. No doubt one causes the other.

Express readers seem obsessed by the next weather calamity which never comes.

 

[Fish]

I think its wrong to pigeon hole people on what paper they buy to read, of course there are those that believe the buzz words some headlines throw out but I don't like red tops and find them almost sleazy and just full of celebrity gossip, I also find other broad sheets too heavy at times but the sport in the Independent I like very much, the middle ground then as such can be a Daily Mail or Express, it doesn't mean you believe all you read and can't have your own opinion or should fall into a certain political category, does it?

[edit] I opened the link after I wrote this reply.

 

[Hobbit]

Mail readers seem obsessed by cancer and immigration. No doubt one causes the other.

Express readers seem obsessed by the next weather calamity which never comes.

But if you're a reader of the Express and see that there's a heatwave coming, does that mean you'll be safe from skin cancer coz you don't read the Mail?

 

[Foxholer]

So sorry we seem to have got it wrong, it is the Express that takes the biscuit.


http://i100.independent.co.uk/artic...l-if-someone-voted-tory-or-labour--WywIXUvkbg

Another 'misuse' of figures!

There's no weighting for the number of readers- merely a percentage of those readers that vote whichever ways!

The Sun has nearly 2Million readers (well, who look at the pictures and read the headlines ) ; The Mail 1.68Million, However, the there are lss than 460k Express readers! and just under 500k Torygraph ones!

So the Wail has over 3 times as much 'influence; as the DE!

What it does show is that you can be more certain the an Express reader won't vote Labour (and might vote UKIP) than you can a Mail one! But even more certain that a Telegraph reader won't vote either - but will vote Tory!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Gave up reading papers years ago for "news". Some editorial items and features are still written by engaged and intelligent journalists but the vast majority of news story's sleights the item to fit and is written for lowest denominators

 

[PhilTheFragger]

The only paper we get is the Metro when the dragon goes up to London 3 days a week

I did have a read of several different papers doing the rounds during my recent hospitalization and found the I Paper to be quite a well balanced tome
giving different sides views and not appearing to be biased one way or another

 

[ScienceBoy]

What's a newspaper?

 

[SocketRocket]

Groundbreaking stuff Doon!

 

[JohnnyDee]

I really do wonder whether the rest of the world's popular press is as tittle-tattle, micro-celebrity drivel obsessed as the great British tabloid.

Their propensity to never let the truth get in the way of some totally fabricated odious story makes me want to be sick.

There is not one of them fit to be cut up into small squares and stuck on a nail in the smallest room in the house. I wouldn't take a free gift of a subscription to any of them. They are symptomatic of all that's wrong with modern society. Ill-informed mendacious lies written for morons by cretins.

Whenever I stay away in a hotel and am asked if I'd like a newspaper I always ask if they have the Beano. The irony seems rather sadly lost on those behind the desk.

My Dad gave me great advice 40 years ago when he said, "Believe nothing printed in the newspapers except perhaps the date, and even then try and have that corroborated with the help of a diary or calendar."

 

[Deleted member 1740]

I like the Guardian and The Times for the football, but the only paper I usually buy is the Racing Post.

I do have a nosey at the websites of most other tabloids except for one particular lot.

 

[Foxholer]

I really do wonder whether the rest of the world's popular press is as tittle-tattle, micro-celebrity drivel obsessed as the great British tabloid.

Certainly not the same 'back home in NZ' where the population isn't sufficient to allow a predominantly left or right wing approach (and political views are genera;;y less extreme anyway), Most papers have journalists across the spectrum. There was one, weekly, national tabloid - The Truth, which was generally deemed to be 'A Pack of Lies' (and my father was once the foreman on a jury in a libel case against it).

Not certain about Australia, as wasn't really there long enough to form an opinion.

Both Aus and NZ are actually a long way away from where 95+% of world events are actually occurring, so tend to have a more balanced, considered approach to news.

US certainly has a few weirdo ones - National Enquirer for example - and, in US, it's not so much Left or Right as how far right! Washington Post (of Watergate fame) is considered Left of 'centre' while New York Times is towards the right, though its mantra requires it to be radical where deemed necessary - the publicising of US's bombing of Laos and other Pentagon Paper revelations being examples. Newspapers in US are traditionally mouthpieces for their owners though, so many local ones of the Mirror, Mail, Express ilk!