Daily Mail
Just caught myself doing this again.

I seem to have developed a habit of reading the Daily Mail website on an almost daily basis.

This isn't because I'm interested in their opinions, or believe their news is in any way accurate. Nor, actually, is it because they fill their website with photos of teh sexy ladies.

I think it stems from reading a few blogs which expose the tabloid lies* which often focus on the Mail. So I sort of got into the habit of clicking through to the Mail website.

The off-shoot of it, apart from almost getting caught reading it sometimes, is that I end up like a quivering angry jelly because of all the shite and lies that I'm - voluntarily - reading.

Help!


Tabloid Watch, Enemies of Reason
(yokelrobin THE NERD WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY/FASHION, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 9:45, 13 replies)

good links those
Good reading
(Smale is stuffed, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 10:00, closed)

Yup
There's quite a few out there, but you could spend all day reading them if you weren't careful.

My only problem is whether or not I really want to know - I just end up feeling angry.

It doesn't really affect my life if the Daily Mail has made up a load of crap about eggs being sold by weight. I can't do anything about it, and it's certainly not worth trying to point it out to Mail readers - I know, I've tried. So wouldn't it be better to live in a sort of blissful ignorance?

Bit like Private Eye; part of me is wondering whether to stop reading it because although there is some excellent humour in it there's also a lot of negativity.

Why fill your life with negativity?

I lose more and more faith in Private Eye the more I read it. I notice a lot of serious things they report that are either wrong or needlessly negative - e.g. criticising BP for buying Google adverts about the oil spill. Yes, fancy actually trying to inform people about something.
(yokelrobin THE NERD WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY/FASHION, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 10:13, closed)

ARGH

(yokelrobin THE NERD WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY/FASHION, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 10:37, closed)

.
Not for the same reason - but I too am drawn into the black hole of Daily Mail stories! Is there help, is there a name for it?

It is amusing they try and hold themselves apart from the red tops when an average story wiill be: kerry katona leaves the house, rachel stevens wears a dress, suri cruise has got new shoes.

The comments sections is fun all on its own though.

At least I can say I go to mailwatch.co.uk as well.
(treaclebriggs, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 11:06, closed)

It's called: "I'd rather be caught watching dwarf porn"
If you are addicted to the comments you might enjoy If you like it so much why don't you go live there
(yokelrobin THE NERD WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY/FASHION, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 11:30, closed)

Cracking
site! Thanks for the link.
(dchurch bah, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 11:30, closed)

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( Cloudane, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 11:31, closed)

Christ almighty
I do exactly this same thing! Are you me?

*Checks in the mirror 50 times and hopes that Mrs SLVA doesn't have Fregoli Delusion
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 12:21, closed)

It's OK
I've set up a web page that automatically filters the crap out of the DM site and just displays the useful, well written and informative articles.

It's here
(yokelrobin THE NERD WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY/FASHION, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 12:24, closed)

I wish I'd never seen those links.
(MikeyNiv can coin snatch 32 pennies, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 13:51, closed)

Because they ruined your belief
that the Mail is true and virtuous?
(yokelrobin THE NERD WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY/FASHION, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 13:59, closed)

No,
I knew that already, I just can't believe they do it so often and so many readers just gobble it all up.
(MikeyNiv can coin snatch 32 pennies, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 14:16, closed)

In the local shop the other day
Someone picked up the Mail and said "Oh no, Europe are going to make us buy eggs by weight"

Although it was the first I'd heard of it, it was blatantly a load of rubbish and I tried to point it out but it just didn't work. IT'S IN THE PAPER. IT'S TRUE.

Top tip: read the last two paragraphs of an article and you will often get something that at least resembles the truth and is generally a complete contradiction of the headline.
(yokelrobin THE NERD WHOSE HAIR DEFIES GRAVITY/FASHION, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 14:34, closed)