Pope Francis

Why does Yasmin Alibhai-Brown say she hates the Daily Mail and they are dispicable, yet every now and then she pops up with a comment IN THE D.M.

Why the hell does the Daily Mail ask somebody who 'supposedly' loathes them to do a report?

Not that I am surprised. She is hardly alone!

DM would have a problem if they only used journalist who say they like it since the entire chattering class hate the DM

Or say they do...

Lilygran

In my book that makes them hypocrites. Who cares what the 'chattering class' whoever and whatever they are think anyway.

The DM has never asked me to do a report, and I look at it on line every day, along with most of the other UK papers that are available on line.
I think it is highly amusing to see how its headlines are slanted in certain directions (i.e. immigrants, welfare claimants, single mothers, house prices)
I draw the line at the Sun and the Express though.

They haven't asked me either! I wonder why.

I too look at it from time to time (especially before a quiz night when I need to catch up on sleb scandal) but what infuriates me about it, is that it is very cleverly written, the photos are excellent, often the content is very similar to other broadsheets, but the difference as Greatnan says, is the choice of stories, the slanted way they are reported and the selective nature of what they choose to include and what they choose to omit.

Mice

That applies to all of them. Left or right politics.

The Daily Mail does position itself as the newspaper for women – a unique slant among UK newspapers.

"...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 think they 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)

Wasn't he a wonderful creation Ariadne?

Love it, Ariadne.

When I was a civil servant I had the entire series on my bookshelf amid the civil service codes.