Poll: "Do you think 'The Daily Mail - UK' is a genuine newspaper?"

[The poll is now closed. Thanks to Martin Samuel for his article in the Daily Mail and best wishes to his wife Deborah who has ME]


A recent thread drew attention to a UK Daily Mail poll asking:

"Do you think ME is a genuine illness"

This ran along side an article entitled "British experts say ME virus is a myth"

The poll was temporarily removed but is back now at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/polls/poll.html?pollId=1015226

I thought I'd start our own poll.

 

Your url doesn't work, this is the correct URL:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/polls/poll.html?pollId=1015226

 

Thanks. My Bad. It's working now.

 

Shoooooooot!!! i'm the o ne that voted yes, by MISTAKE- can you please remove my vote? I don't know how it changed itself but I was voting are you serious:Sign Help::In bed:

 

I'll change your vote Kati. NP.

 

:Sign Good one: C.B.S.

B.W. C.G.

 

Bad, bad Daily Mail.

There's something suspect about that newspaper.

I used to read it with a kind of horrified fascination (it was provided at my workplace in London). I'd never seen journalism like it and reading it sometimes felt a bit like observing a train wreck in slow motion. That's the best I can describe it.

I left the UK and spent a year in the middle east. This was "before the internet" and I enjoyed the whole year with no newspapers (or TV). It was liberating actually.

.....Returned to the UK and upon opening the Daily Mail one morning I got an immediate reaction - a strong SICK feeling.

Bad, bad newspaper. And something about it is fundamentally unhealthy.

 

Worse than the Daily Mail is The Sun,

These papers deliver an opinion. They don't inform you, they just tell you what opinion 'they', therefore you should have. They are sheeple papers.


My parents had The Sun deleivered everyday.

Worse than this was when our grown-up son came for a visit and bought it.

 

Vicars running off with Au Pairs anyone?...

(Yes I was going to mention there was worse than the D.M. )

:Retro smile:

 

Funny - my very first thought upon seeing their poll was to mentally ask this exact question!:victory:

I did not actually send that comment in to them, though, as I thought that stooping to their level would not help matters....that said, I do find it amusing that you started a poll about it on here (I don't have a problem with discussion on here turning their question back on them - when I said that about stooping to their level I meant if I actually sent a comment in it would be doing so)

 

LMAO at this poll.

It reminds me of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-oXVwmzxsI
A genius rant about UK newspapers. Go Russell Howard!

 

I need an American translation for Russell Howard. I laughed anyway, even though I understood about 50% of what he said.

 

That's been in my favourites since he did that, it's just a best, sweetest satire in true Russell Howard style. Here's a slightly better version on Youtube from the BBC "You just killed a polar bear, YOU!!!" It's just so darn funny, the height of Mock The Week.

 

The World According to the Daily Mail readers

I found the page with all the polls listed and I thought I'd do this little compliation for you so you know exactly what the 'truth' is about the world


Modern day mothers are too pushy

Compulsory parenting lessons will not reduce teen pregnancy rates

Global warming is not caused by man

An affair is not the key to a healthy marriage


From this we can deduce that pushy teenage mothers will continue to get willfully pregnant in a world that is naturally getting warmer despite a huge explosion in population presumably caused by all those teenage mothers. Oh, and don't cheat, apparently it doesn't help a marriage (well, 21% think it does so don't marry them) And North Korea will win the World Cup, place your bets now folks!

 

US translation for Russell Howard...

I guess you need to know a little bit about UK newspapers for it to be funny, but, here goes...

"The Daily Express" - unremitting horror - They may as well get rid of all the news every day and just print "DON'T GO OUTSIDE! It's full of gays, blacks and crime! Oh, if only Princess Diana were here..."
"The Daily Mail" - ASBOs, Muslims, Speed cameras, speed cameras, ASBOs, Muslims, Speed cameras...
(An ASBO is an anti-social behaviour order, basically used instead of an old-fashioned clip round the ear or 'common decency', the theory being that Britain's youth are so out-of-control and parenting is so bad that the State has to take over and criminalise petty offences. It's sort of a badge of pride for youngsters...)
"The Sun" - Are you a paedophile? Are you a paedophile? Now look at this page 3 spread, she's 16 today, get a load of that rack. Are you a paedophile?
(This is unsubtly pointing out the hypocrisy of the Sun in that it funds vigilante hunts of paedophiles while encouraging its readers to ogle teenage girls.)
"The Independent" - it's like it's grabbed you by the throat - WHY AREN'T YOU RECYCLING? YOU JUST KILLED A POLAR BEAR!
"The Guardian" - in the corner fanning itself with a wallchart, "You silly little things, tell 'em, Telegraph"
(The Guardian is really quite left-wing... WAY to the left of Obama, for example, and deals in a seasoned brand of intellectual snobbery. And that's coming from me, the bleeding-heart liberal...)
"The Daily Telegraph" - criCKET! criCKET!
(this is done in the style of an old working class Monty Python character. Not quite sure why he chose that for the Telegraph).

One of my staff is from the States and she was utterly horrified by the double standards in the British press when she first came here, so much so that she did an degree project about it...

 

Even funnier with the transcript. Kim, you weren't the only one needing a translator.

Thanks!

 

My pleasure. It was fun to translate.

You know, us Brits have no idea that those of you over the pond have such a hard time understanding us. Could explain a lot of things. But, on the other hand, the clip quality is pretty bad.

 

Now Russell's got me hoWWWW-ling. Oh that is so funny. Thank you thank you thank you for taking the time to both translate and interpret for me. I'm heading back over to watch it again with a new understanding of your language. Bless you!!!

 

Oh, I forgot to say, Russell Howard did a great little impression of Tigger with ME ("not tonight, piglet") - I saw it when I was a bit sicker than I am at the moment, and was watching lots of comedy to cheer myself up. Almost fell off the sofa I found it so funny.

I wish it was on YouTube somewhere. But I am not sure whether anybody here would find it offensive. There's a fine line with humour, isn't there?