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Murderous unions?

Doug B's picture

I know it's shooting fish in a basket but is this a new low for the Mail?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010193/Girl-13-crushed-death-br...

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Tasteful

Using the accidental death of a child to score a cheap political point.

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Spartacus Mills | 1 July 2011 - 12:38pm

very very sad

and a tragic story.

But the spin is absolutely typical of the Mail. Don't forget they thought Hitler was a good egg. My mother in law is an avid reader which explains a lot. I won't have it in the house. The Mail. Not the ma-in-law.

It's the pathetic linking of cause and effect that is so depressing. Why not the blame the parents for not sending her to a private school like all right thinking parents should? Then she would have been in school and not sitting under a tree. See...it's easy and utterly pointless playing that game.

I must admit I find it slighlty disturbing that a fellow Word reader frequents the Mail website.

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cradlerock | 1 July 2011 - 12:43pm

Not Guilty.....

Saw it linked on a political discussion board.

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Doug B | 1 July 2011 - 1:33pm

I do

so that I know what the enemy is up to

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toiras34 | 1 July 2011 - 2:02pm

Shooting fish in a basket !

Think you've put all your eggs in one barrel there

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Freddie Owen | 1 July 2011 - 12:52pm

Mixed Metaphors...

whoops....Have to plead guilty on that charge.

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Doug B | 1 July 2011 - 1:36pm

Also

Daily Telegraph
Sun.

Do I see a trend emerging?

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sitheref2409 | 1 July 2011 - 1:19pm

The Mail is an irresponsible rag

A year or so ago, they reported on the number of children who now contract mumps, measles etc and blamed the last Government on the vaccination rate decreasing under them. I wrote to them pointing out the fact that they filled their rag with scaremongering stories re autism etc being linked to the jabs on what was clearly, a political mandate rather than a health issue. Surprisingly, I didn't receive a response.
They still believe if the great dictator Thatcher was still in power, we would all live in a far happier place. What they fail to see is that we are now suffering the consequences of Thatcher's greed policies as the generation who were brought up under her dictatorship are now adults themselves and have a 'look after number 1' attitude that she encouraged.
Right rant over. Carry on.

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Axekeith | 1 July 2011 - 1:29pm

The mail is the best internet troll going and should be ignored

I know this isn't a new theory - but here goes.

The Daily Mail website is a classic internet troll (say outrageous things, get a reaction) and will only go away if we ignore it. Every day I see my (liberal) twitter stream filled with people foaming at the mouth at something outrageous on their site - and always linking to it.

By linking to it, we're rewarding them with hits, which they can then sell to advertisers...

Don't feed the trolls.

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itf | 1 July 2011 - 1:43pm

Precisely

Page impressions count for everything, and this kind of nonsense attracts page impressions. All newspapers engage in it, to a greater or lesser degree - here's an example of the Guardian doing it to its own readers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/30/rupert-murdoch-monop...

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Fraser Lewry | 1 July 2011 - 1:47pm

istyosty.com is the answer

It lets you read and link to cached copies of DM stories so you can be appalled by the content without counting as a hit or getting the adverts.

Example: http://istyosty.com/85u5

(Another variation of their recurring Facebook-gives-you-cancer theme)

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Skuds | 1 July 2011 - 9:44pm

How it really scored online

was by introducing keywords, like "Lyndsay Lohan" or "Michael Jackson" into stories, however tenuous. International readers looking for these words would find stories in the Daily Mail. This is how it grew a huge US audience, so it's online advertising rates are through the roof. Other papers do it as well, but, as Paul Dacre tells his staff' : "By the end of your article the reader should hate someone or something," and depressingly, that's what a lot of people seem to want.
I'm not even left-wing and I detest the rag. It's done more to lower the tone of debate in this country than any tabloid, because it masquerades as the voice of respectability and responsibility while peddling bile.
Using a 13-year old girl's death to try to score a political point?

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Mac45 | 1 July 2011 - 1:58pm

The best thing to do...

is to block the thing completely, as web shortening services often result in you visiting their vile site by accident.

If running Firefox, Safari or Chrome just install Kitten Block to do this automatically: http://www.teaandkittens.co.uk/

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JQW | 1 July 2011 - 2:25pm

I read that as .....

'Murderous Onions' - gotta book that eye test.

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herringbrother | 1 July 2011 - 1:46pm

I have a theory

That life and mood could be improved immeasurably by simply avoiding newspapers.

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Spartacus Mills | 1 July 2011 - 2:10pm

I did that two years ago

Used to read the Guardian every day, Observer on Sunday, sometimes supplemented by other papers, plus my local papers. Now I just read the local paper. This was the result of reading the book Black Swan - which pointed out that most of what is in the papers is opinion and padding.

I now have an extra £30+ a month for better things and an hour a day more for other things.

Get all my news from Mock the Week and HIGNFY. (OK - and blogs and the BBC news website)

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Skuds | 1 July 2011 - 9:51pm

Absolutely

I gave up even on Sundays a few years ago and feel better for it.

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Douglas | 1 July 2011 - 10:11pm

Tabloid Tory Toilet Paper Tops Top Teaboy

The SUN can report that much-loved office teaboy Ernie Crumm (17) was killed this morning when one of the remaining killer bendy buses, introduced into service by Mad Red Ken, jumped the pavement and ploughed into the bus queue he'd just joined. He was the only fatality, a fact put down to his avid newspaper reading. "If he hadn't been concentrating so deeply on the thoughtful political analysis in his Daily Mail", said an eye witness, "he'd have seen it coming and leapt to safety".

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Vulpes Vulpes | 1 July 2011 - 2:22pm

I like to think myself

articulate in my comments and responses to the written word but alas in reading that piece in The Daily Mail I cannot get past the word 'c*nt'.

Hell isn't imaginary nor is it other people, it is The Daily Mail.

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Ahh_Bisto | 1 July 2011 - 2:46pm

I Won't Click On The Link

The Mail is scum of the highest order,I Too read murderous onions must bring tears to ones eyes

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MrRadio | 1 July 2011 - 9:57pm
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