The Daily Mail - dumber than you thought...

[Charles RB]

...and that's pretty dang dumb.

Basically, the Daily Mail has been running scare stories and exaggerations over British cervical cancer jabs. "Cervical cancer jab left my 12-year-old daughter paralysed, says mother", "Now girls aged NINE are offered cervical cancer jab", etc...


Except, er... their Irish edition has been campaigning for the jabs. (http://olliebuck.com/misc/507.htm)

The two options are that the Mail did not know its sister title was going off-message and thus is incompetent... or they're just going with whatever stance will sell more papers, even though they presumably know (via the Irish edition) that many of their scare stories are bunk.

WTF?

[CutterMike]

Actually, it makes perfect sense from what I know of the Mail... If anything bad's going to happen, better it should only happen to the Irish!

[Pink Bat Maxine]

It has to be pretty fucking stupid to be dumber than I thought.

[Cam63]

That's one of Rupert's, eh ?

[Tobias March]

...and that's pretty dang dumb.

Basically, the Daily Mail has been running scare stories and exaggerations over British cervical cancer jabs. "Cervical cancer jab left my 12-year-old daughter paralysed, says mother", "Now girls aged NINE are offered cervical cancer jab", etc...


Except, er... their Irish edition has been campaigning for the jabs. (http://olliebuck.com/misc/507.htm)

The two options are that the Mail did not know its sister title was going off-message and thus is incompetent... or they're just going with whatever stance will sell more papers, even though they presumably know (via the Irish edition) that many of their scare stories are bunk.

WTF?


This is very common. See also when The Wind That Shakes the Barley won an award at Cannes.

The British edition of the tabloid denounced it as a promotion of terrorism.

The Irish edition of the same newspaper lauded it as a great success for the Irish boys made good (of course it had a British director, but they chose to ignore that in both reports)

[king mob]

That's one of Rupert's, eh ?

No, it's just as bad though, it's Associated Newspapers and edited by the truely vile Paul Dacre.

[Charles RB]

That's one of Rupert's, eh ?

Amazingly not!

My gran gets it, sadly. I remember a paperback came with it once, about a Polish maid who sinisterly tries to steal the husband and home-life of a nice upper-middle-class English woman...

This is very common. See also when The Wind That Shakes the Barley won an award at Cannes.

The British edition of the tabloid denounced it as a promotion of terrorism.

The Irish edition of the same newspaper lauded it as a great success for the Irish boys made good (of course it had a British director, but they chose to ignore that in both reports)

...huh.

Is this lack of cohesion, or deliberate cynical market games designed to exploit readers? And why am I typing when I just answered my own question?

[oddballuk]

It has to be pretty fucking stupid to be dumber than I thought.

Damn, you beat me to it.

[Adam C]

A headline from Charles' link...

"* Why boys need a jab for cervical cancer: Only then will girls be totally protected, say experts"

Really? We have a cervix? So my biology teachers lied to me! :eek:

[king mob]

While we're pointing at the Daily Mail, let's take a minute on the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough to remember why The Sun is even worse. (http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/2006/12/exsun_editor_st.html)

[Charles RB]

Is there a single paper the Sun ISN'T worse than?

[Paul McEnery]

Is there a single paper the Sun ISN'T worse than?

Sure. Most American papers.

At least the Sun's got nipples.

[RachelEvil]

A headline from Charles' link...



Really? We have a cervix? So my biology teachers lied to me! :eek:

HPV can be carried by anyone, cervix or no, and can thus be spread to those with cervixes (cervices?).

[thehod]

While we're pointing at the Daily Mail, let's take a minute on the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough to remember why The Sun is even worse. (http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/2006/12/exsun_editor_st.html)

I say this about very few people, and the occasional referee, but Kelvin MacKenzie is a cunt of the highest order.

[Charles RB]

At least the Sun's got nipples.

I wish you'd said "tits" so I could've said "but enough about the editors...".

When the Sun does stories about the horrible decay of English society, we must all remember that editor Rebekah Wade beat up her spouse once and helped encouraged witchhunts during a paedo-scare she'd also helped whip up.

[Weetomuncher]

I read the Daily Express, a paper aimed at a similar audience to the Mail which has a history of carrying crazy Princess Diana stories which stopped just short of implying that she was abducted by aliens. The Express got into trouble for carrying wild stories about missing child Madelaine McCann regarding her disappearance and possible whereabouts.

It has toned down the sensationalism and is basically a 'lite' version of the Daily Mail with a slightly less xenophobic attitude than its rival.

Best of all, the Express has Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes and Faith, Hope & Sue which are all fun strips as well as the famous but dull Rupert The Bear.

[king mob]

I say this about very few people, and the occasional referee, but Kelvin MacKenzie is a cunt of the highest order.

Did you hear McKenzie was given one last opportunity last month to apologise for his headline regarding Hillsborough and refused again to do so.

[Alan Lynch]

I say this about very few people, and the occasional referee, but Kelvin MacKenzie is a cunt of the highest order.
Seconded. I really would love to see him airdropped onto the centre circle at Anfield one Saturday.

[king mob]

Seconded. I really would love to see him airdropped onto the centre circle at Anfield one Saturday.

With Jack Straw and Thatcher strapped to his back.

[thehod]

Did you hear McKenzie was given one last opportunity last month to apologise for his headline regarding Hillsborough and refused again to do so.

Yep, which makes him an even bigger cunt.

Whilst I was studying journalism at uni both him and later Piers Morgan cam to give us lectures. Piers is still an idiot, but at least he didn't consider it beneath him to go and have a drink with a few students who wanted to ask him a few questions, and he put his hand in his pocket to buy a round.

[Weetomuncher]

With all the terrible events occuring around the world, it is a change of pace when I read the local newspaper every Wednesday with lead articles about local libraries and amateur football.

It is sometimes more interesting to read about the minutae of life rather than the vital issues.

It is like stepping into the past reading "Bicycle stolen in broad daylight" instead of "War in Afghanistan" or "Man slaughters six in Pizza Hut" and although pilfering non motorised transport is not to be encouraged at least it shows than nothing horrific is happening locally.