Daily Mail to Buy Out The Telegraph?

The Guardian is no different to any other newspaper in reporting news inaccurately. It’s no worse, it’s down to journalists, and they all get it wrong sometimes. That’s why it’s important to read a wide variety of media, and to differentiate between opinion pieces and news reports.

Junglebub

My beef against the Guardian is not so much that it's far left but just that so often gets its facts wrong and ignores any attempt to point them in the right direction to carry out sound research.

Yes, I've noticed lies being reported in The Guardian so they are not spotless!

Since The Guardian has been caught out publishing state secrets, too, perhaps the staff there consider themselves above the law?

All newspapers are biased to an extent and none is truly independent even if they do not support a political party.

Merging of two mental asylums.

Yeh let’s just lap up what The Guardian and Mirror want us to know.

The Financial Times has a well-balanced news section.
But you should read it online, as the print version is a real arm-stretcher.
(In my teens I took the advice from Miners' Union Leader, Joe Gormley - the moderate one before Arthur Scargill).

My beef against the Guardian is not so much that it's far left but just that so often gets its facts wrong and ignores any attempt to point them in the right direction to carry out sound research.

I live in a working class Northern town and the Daily Mail is the most popular newspaper. I buy the local paper, too, which is not biased. I prefer an actual physical paper and I use the paper to line my birds cages. I'm sure there are some petty little people who will say that is all it's good for.

We find The Times is reasonably centrist with different points of view aired. Unfortunately it got so expensive that we only bought it on a Saturday. Now my dh has it online as my dd has a subscription which allows her to share with a few other people. The Daily Mail is a lot more affordable which is why so many copies are sold. Wikapaedia doesn’t class it as a newspaper which says a lot about its value as a source of real news.

Wyllow3

Yup. I live in an area where we have from the very rich indeed to the very deprived. That is all I meant, and no more.

I just happen to believe that ones incomes do actually make a difference to ones outlook - are you saying it doesnt?

Yes, true.

Traditionally working class people (like my father) voted Labour. That doesn't mean to say they are deprived , it meant they were not wealthy.

Are you now saying they would buy the Daily Mail which is right-wing?

Puzzling.

Of course, I suppose we're all middle class now.

Magenta8

Actually I did say it was trashy and bigoted.{confused}
Aapologies, its been a long day.

You got me confused there too Magenta!

GG13- I'm sure he doesn't!

We have the paper version of the Daily Mail.

Dr Scurr’’s medical advice is spot on, especially for oldies like us.
Max Pemberton psychologist excellent.
Sarah Vine top class award winning journalist
Jenni Murray stands up for the woke world we find ourselves in.

And of course very funny cartoons. 😀
The Daily Mail suits us.

LemonJam I am 100% that Lord Rothermere doesn’t give two hoots about what gransnetters think 🤷‍♀️

Better him than an Arab/USA buyout which thank goodness has fallen through.

Lord Rothermere is the chair and controlling shareholder of Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), a multi national media conglomerate. It includes Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Ireland on Sunday, The I Paper and Metro newspapers in its stable. If the deal goes through and DMGT does acquire The Telegraph, it will result in less diversity and less competition in the UK media landscape. It will enlarge, embolden and consolidate the right and extreme right wing tilt of UK media representation,

Mediafactcheck.com measures the DM's performance as low factual reporting and towards extreme, right wing in its bias.

It is for each individual Gransnetter to consider whether this DMGT acquisition would be good for Britain, good for the balance of opinion and presentation, result in an overall low proportion of factual, unbiased reporting in the UK, good for competition and diversity and last but by no means least, whether it would be good for democracy,

Seems more right wing than any ohter newspaper headline I can see online today. Apart from DM!

It just looked a bit right wing to me.

But as I said, it is behind a pay wall so I couldnt read much.

fancythat

Just had a look at the i.

It is behind a paywall so could only see a few headlines.

The two I saw, looked right wing to me!

Echoed what I think about the budget flip flops being ridiculous.
Worse than that, it is individuals and businesses cant plan properly, as they dont know which way things are heading.
[I have been trying to write this in somewhere so here is good enough].

I don’t think I’d conclude on the basis of what you quote that the i is right wing, because it is stating the facts, individuals and businesses can’t plan until they know what the budget contains. I think they would say that before any landmark budget?

AI says

UK businesses have been affected by uncertainty budgets through dampened investment, delayed major decisions, and reduced consumer spending. Uncertainty from frequent policy changes and potential tax hikes is causing businesses, particularly SMEs, to hold back on hiring and capital expenditure, instead focusing on short-term measures like using temporary staff and building up cash reserves

And yes. They cant plan properly!
And need to know details.
But dont.
With any certainty whatsoever.

It matters which ways. In business!

Changes to NI
Changes to, oh I dont know. You look them all up.

It matters!

House buying has stalled.

Again, look up all the ways that Uk businesses[big and small] have been affected in the last 6 months by all the shilly shallying.

Worse than that, it is individuals and businesses cant plan properly, as they dont know which way things are heading.

Isn't it patently obvious that, at the very least, we are heading for 'austerity', which means cutting public spending. So individuals will have less money because of losing their jobs and businesses will lose both government purchases and consumer purchases because both the government and individuals will be spending less. Individuals because they don't have as much money and government because it perversely believes that starving the economy of money will promote 'growth'.

I meant to link that to Casdon's post.

Just had a look at the i.

It is behind a paywall so could only see a few headlines.

The two I saw, looked right wing to me!

Echoed what I think about the budget flip flops being ridiculous.
Worse than that, it is individuals and businesses cant plan properly, as they dont know which way things are heading.
[I have been trying to write this in somewhere so here is good enough].

I will take a look at the Independent.

My Mum and Dad used to get the Guardian and the Mail back in the day. Does that make them unbalanced? I didn’t like either of those papers but I was very young then and haven’t seen them for years. We have ‘ The Age’ which was a really good paper but is now trashy and unbalanced. Things change.