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This is a normal post The Daily Mail, is, in many ways, shit.
However the fashion for everyone falling over themselves to scream out that it's shit is even shittier.
A) If you don't like it, don't consume it.
B) IF. YOU. DO. NOT. LIKE. IT. DO. NOT. CONSUME. IT.
C) Stop pretending it's really influential. It isn't. Just as Murdoch isn't either.

I call it virtue signalling because it is precisely that. There is a growing trend whereby thing X is held up as a bad thing, and people are encouraged to expresss condemnation of said bad thing. Like this picture if you hate cancer etc. With the Daily Mail it has become a hackneyed expression of tribal membership. People love to tell each other that they hate The Mail because it is code for "I am liberal, anti racist and pro immigration." It's a bit like people who preface a statement with "speaking as a Christian..." The Mail is many things, shit being one of them, but it is nowhere near as bad as its caricature, nor is it any worse than other papers, the Guardian is full of batshit crazy bollocks and insidious cant just as much, just from the other end of the political spectrum. But mainly it pisses me off because it such an unimaginative and unoriginal thing to say. It's trite remark made on every panel show since they were invented. And, shock horror, lots of good, decent non racist and non hateful people read it.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 14:08, Reply)
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Hahahahaha
 (I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 15:04, Reply)
This is a normal post It's sadly influential on the BBC
Here are 4 of their 13 front page headlines right now:

Dying Woman Writes Husband's Dating Profile
Louis Tomlinson Arrested in LA
Burglars Raid John Terry's Mansion
She Kept the Secret for 70 Years

We're living through a century-defining defining era: I don't give a flying fuck about John Terry's crapshack.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 4 Mar 2017, 15:56, Reply)
This is a normal post It publishes 500,000 stories a year.
Sorry that not all it's news is serious enough to meet your yardstick. The Pink Un is very good value.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 16:58, Reply)
This is a normal post You seem to think that because it is a newspaper
It should only contain serious news. Newspapers have long been in the business of entertaining too. Indeed, tabloids or mass/middle market papers have long prioritised entertainment over news. This was exacerbated by the rise of celebrity gossip magazines. Yes, those stories are dross, but ALL papers contain acres of dross. I only know what The Pengest Munch is because I read the Guardian.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 17:30, Reply)
This is a normal post My point was that the dross
shouldn't have a prominent place on the national broadcaster: those headlines are from the BBC News online front page which has been perceptibly creeping into MailOnline territory, despite your assertion that the Mail isn't influential.

Sorry to break it to you about Louis Tomlinson by the way. I'm sure he'll be OK.
 (I helped save b3ta! After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 4 Mar 2017, 17:47, Reply)
This is a normal post "I call it virtue signalling but you're unimaginative and unoriginal"
What a ridiculous narcissist
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 17:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Zzzzzzzzzz

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 17:33, Reply)
This is a normal post It's not as good as snowflake to be honest
Is that one of yours too?
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 17:47, Reply)
This is a normal post *slips into catatonic state induced by your tedium*

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 17:57, Reply)
This is a normal post catatonic state
I see you are still mouthing off your bullshit "virtue signallers" how about this you scum bag - My ex used to have a turn of phrase "I would not piss on him if he was on fire" - Me your not worth a match. Enough virtue signalling for you or are you so thick you do not get it !!! FUCK OFF CUNT
 (nee22 NL ExPat, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 19:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Hmmmm,
You are an immigrant, not an "ex pat". Calm down and fuck off. If you don't like it, use the ignore button, you stupid cunt.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 19:41, Reply)
This is a normal post well that's put frockie in his place
he'll be in his room in the dark crying now. Devastating critique too.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 4 Mar 2017, 19:41, Reply)
This is a normal post I stopped reading papers and websites because of all the fake news.

(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 5 Mar 2017, 9:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Aye, righto.

(immadme, Sun 5 Mar 2017, 11:18, Reply)
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No you call it virtue signalling because it is an in vogue word on the far right sites you read.
 (Oswald Mosley (((triggering))) right wing cunts on, Sun 5 Mar 2017, 20:12, Reply)