dear Charles do ever crave / to appear on the front of the Daily Mail

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Do you read the Daily Mail? Do you refuse to? What do you think of it? Is it better or worse that the red-tops? Have I missed a previous thread on the same topic?

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Bloody computers. Mr moderator sir, can you remove the unnecessary thread please? Thanks!

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

they manipulated those shots of jacko and the veiled
kids, digitising out the people surrounding him,
to make him look more alone/isolated in a picture for a
frnt page hype splash.
- even though this is a damn sight subtler
then their usual hysterical claptrap, it gives you a good idea
where their heads are at.

what a way to run a railroad.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 28 November 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm. I thought others might share in the apoplectiv fury that piece of shit always engenders in me. But it seems you don't mind either way.

IS THIS THE WORLD OUR CHILDREN MUST GROW UP IN???

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 November 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark C i am with you. it is a rotten tory RAG. it makes me v v v mad. but i am also at work so you will have to, like, FEEL my rage as i have not the time to type it :)

― katie (katie), Thursday, 28 November 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

piscesboy: even worse. they digitised out the black bodyguards surrounding them but left a white onlooker.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 28 November 2002 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm just exhausted by thinking about newspapers this week.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As previously mentioned on another thread, my grandfather is old guard labour, yet still reads the Daily Mail. This is partly why I don't find it shocking any more, but mostly it's because I never pick up a copy out of principal, so I don't know what's in it to get shocked about.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

for some reason I often find it discarded in pubs (or more likely the only one no one has nicked), and glance through it, to check what the enemy is up to as much as anything. I don't get overly upset, cos they're clearly a bunch of cants.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i often find the express even worse than the mail, their singular and relentless obsession with 'asylum' is astonishing! wars happen, governments change, superstars die, there are natural disasters, yet every day the express never budges from an asylum headline

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Snap, Gareth. Although if we're going to talk about airbrushing, there's usually some non-sinister reason behind it, ie. the headline will look better with the entourage brushed out of Michael Jackson shot. Fashion shoots are my perennial favourite for wielding the brush when the model has:

A) spots
B) track marks
C) bruising
D) spindle arms
E) The Herp
F) more than one of the above, unless Terry Richardson shoot in which case ADD 'EM ALL IN.

I cannot *stand* tabloid journalists, particularly the ones employed as columnists in the lady pages, with a thousand words a week to slagg off other ladies. One of the people working as a freelancer in the early days of my time at the Edgy Style Magazine parlayed his success as small-time Class A dealer to his editors and other nearly-famous types into career at the minging end of the tabloid press. We used to joke that Freelancer X was such a twat, drugs were the only reason he was allowed in the office. Think about that next time one of the fuckers starts banging on about Drugs Hell in print and ask them how they spend Friday lunchtime/afternoon - I absolutely guarantee the vast majority of them will be dialling for powder.

And a small confession: at a Fischerspooner show I coughed up something diabolical and having no kleenex, affixed it to a passing 3am Girl. She probably took it home.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

A thoroughly nasty paper. I very rarely see it other than at my mother's. It is terrible, with the exception (is this still the case?) of Peanuts.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

It can be a good read. The above posts act as adverts for the Daily Mail. "Thoroughly nasty", "rotten", "IS THIS THE WORLD OUR CHILDREN MUST GROW UP IN?", "hysterical claptrap". Whether this kind of language is used to describe the Daily Mail, or it is used by the Daily Mail to descibe the world, I'm inevitably drawn to the target. I'm up for Crash and asylum seekers and middlebrow comics. I am not unique.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 30 November 2002 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I recommended ILE to a friend as 'hysterical garbage'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 30 November 2002 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

And a small confession: at a Fischerspooner show I coughed up something diabolical and having no kleenex, affixed it to a passing 3am Girl. She probably took it home.

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Great post

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

Better than any of yours LOLOLOLO

― roffle roffle, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

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