More Daily Mail ranting

[deathcookie]

The fuss about 'Manhunt' (the case where a 17 year-old killed his 14 year-old friend after being 'obsessed' by the computer game) is a contemporary version of the 'Child's Play' furore, thus naturally it's all over the Daily Mail. Mainly as it's a slow week for news. They also featured an article on the fulfillment of being a real life Stepford

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[azureskies]

my mother keeps buying it, and I still keep reading it as it's the newspaper equivalent of a train wreck.Same here. I don't know whether you're interested in sport or not, but Jeff Powell - whose columns are normally hilarious anyway - has been on top form this week. He's basically the sporting equivalent of the Mail's usual hysteria. When Eriksson was appointed England manager, he wrote the immortal words "We've sold our birthright up the fjords to a nation of hammer-throwers and skiiers". But this week, he's had roughly a full page a day to rant at how much he hates Eriksson (calling him, among other things, a "grubby little man") and how Terry Venables is a far more suitable candidate for the job, and much more of an upstanding citizen. This would be the same Terry Venables who still has a year left on a ban from being director of a company in this country due to his dodgy financial dealings in the past

[deathcookie]

I usually don't read the sports pages (sport is interesting, but by the time I get to the back of the paper I'm too annoyed to rip the piss out of their sports coverage) so thanks for bringing that gem of a columnist to my attention.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a journalist, but didn't puruse that career track as it appeared to me you needed a lot of talent to succeed. How naïve I was.

Powell wasn't so amusing today, with his boring Tyson article. But there was a writer called Ian Ladyman whose name amused me, for I am 12.

[not_on_fire]

I don't know why anyone would want to read that hate-filled propaganda sheet, although like you my parents read it. Today's headline was particularly hilarious - "BAN THESE EVIL GAMES" screameth the Mail. According to the victim's mother, the murderer was "obsessed" with Manhunt - er, how exactly does she know this? Never mind, it back's up the Mail's "crusade"

The Daily Mail sells itself by encouraging fear, hatred and loathing of those who lie below us in the pecking order. It's a sad reflection on our current society of "me, me, me" that this rag sells so well.

[deathcookie]

I think you'd be amused by the Daily Mail headline generator, if you haven't seen it already. It's scarily accurate.

Obviously, the Mail contains subliminal, hypnosis-like messages within its pages. That's the only way I can think of to explain why people continue reading it, and we should be lucky we're in the select few who can develop immunity to the hypnosis.

My favourite Daily Mail spot of ignorance in recent times was the advertisment for a Slim Fast 'we're taking on the beach' challenge, juxtaposed with an article on how media promotes eating disorders. Heh. Ripping the Mail to shreds is almost too easy.

[swirlingmuse]

Was talking to my friend about that Manhunt game. For a start he was 17, and the game has an 18 certificate, and frankly anyone who plays a game and decides to try it out for real is obviously fucked up anyway. But of course thats not what the parents want to hear, its easier to use a game as a scape goat!

I've seen Manhunt, its gory, also seen and played Hitman and Grand Theft Auto, and have no desire what so ever to go round killing anyone or nicking cars, which is reassuring.

I hate it when people blame games or music, like thats gonna be the only cause of some person doing something stupid. Argh! I hate the media! *breathes* errmm yeah sorry bout that rant!

[loveforsale]

My dad buys the Daily Mail, but only on a Saturday... the rest of the week he buys the Independent, with the exception of the Mirror on a Sunday. AND he's a member of the Liberal Democrats so I really have no idea what this sporadic right-wing purchasing is all about. Mid-life crisis maybe...