Get the Daily Mail reclassified as a fake news website

Pawnless Endgame said:
British Newspapers can be neatly categorised thus:

The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country.
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country.
The Times is read by people who actually do run the country.
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country and think Hitler was rather a nice chap.
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country.
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country.
The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
The Sun is read by people who don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big bewbs.
The Daily Sport is read by people who don't know what a country is. But they like bewbs!
The Star is read by people who think that everyone should run their own country, with girls with BIG BEWBS!
The Express is read by people who hate their country, everybody else's country and themselves, and everything in general.
The Independent is read by people who own the newspapers.

Note: Anyone who reads the Daily Mail automatically think that Maggie Thatcher was actually Jesus in drag is part of the dangerous emo cult and should become An Hero because it's what Gerard Way wants.
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Page 3 doesn't exist in the same form anymore.
 
Moses said:
They can say what they want if it’s not patently false but labelled as news. Say what they want in the opinion pages, for example. Report things from an angle, even. But don’t completely lie.
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But isn’t that what already happens? The events themselves are real but the bits that are labelled “fake news” are “the angle”.

Also difficult to prove the fake stuff.
 
dowie said:
you could say that about plenty of other newspapers too
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Oh definitely, the best you can hope for is to get your news from a range of sources and draw your own conclusions.

I often try and read/watch the same story from different outlets and see how they spin it depending on their bias.

Not just the usual UK news sources but international as well.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
British Newspapers can be neatly categorised thus:

The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country.
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country.
The Times is read by people who actually do run the country.
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country and think Hitler was rather a nice chap.
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country.
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country.
The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
The Sun is read by people who don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big bewbs.
The Daily Sport is read by people who don't know what a country is. But they like bewbs!
The Star is read by people who think that everyone should run their own country, with girls with BIG BEWBS!
The Express is read by people who hate their country, everybody else's country and themselves, and everything in general.
The Independent is read by people who own the newspapers.

Note: Anyone who reads the Daily Mail automatically think that Maggie Thatcher was actually Jesus in drag is part of the dangerous emo cult and should become An Hero because it's what Gerard Way wants.
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British newspapers were neatly categorised in 1987 by Yes, Prime Minister thus:

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Oh and Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big ****.
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Moses said:
No, any news story should have balance. The gutter press doesn’t do that.
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But, conversely, a news story be the subject of false balance. One of the BBC’s main problems that it’ll often invite a scientist and a non-scientist to debate news related to science and present both opinions as equally valid.

False balance is dangerous, especially on subjects related to health (e.g. vaccinations).
 
Moses said:
Yes, obviously. We’d need a whole thread to discuss the complexities. Pretty sure I said over Brexit how they’d eg. have loads of economists and legal experts on talking about the problems... then for balance they’d have a foaming at the mouth Brexiteer on asserting that was all wrong without actually having a thorough, evidence based argument.
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Economists didn’t ought to be held in the same regard as scientists and legal experts, as appropriate economic systems can be selected to fulfill political ends. Long term economic predictions in particular have a very low accuracy rate due to number of variables involved.
 
LabR@t said:
The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country


Lol, that's the stupidest thing I have read this year
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Why?? Does it describe the sort of person you are??

I found it hilarious in all honesty and if that’s the stupidest thing you have read this year. Then you obviously don’t read a lot which probably explains your various blinkered views on the world.
 
Yas786 said:
Why?? Does it describe the sort of person you are??

I found it hilarious in all honesty and if that’s the stupidest thing you have read this year. Then you obviously don’t read a lot which probably explains your various blinkered views on the world.
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Mirror readers think they run the country, really? Stop reading that socialist comic and pick up a grown ups paper. Whilst your at it you had better cancel your copy of the socialist worker.
 
always late said:
All news outlets are full of ****. Every single one of them.
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Yep. And worth online searching you can always find a outlet that reinforces your search .

I don't look at the news anymore apart from an odd glance a couple of times a week at BBC app
 
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