[Lorric]

Simple. You look at the url. If it contains the string www.dailymail.co.uk, you do not go to it. Should you find yourself on that site, close the tab and apply kitten picture.

But then you don't get to see what it is. He didn't say just don't go there, he said don't go there while talking about it. You can't talk about it if you don't know what it is.

[The E]

Yes, in this case you can.

By recognizing the address as linking to the Daily Mail, you can already infer that the article on the other end will be trollish, factually inaccurate, and probably badly written.

What more would you need to know?

[Lorric]

Yes, in this case you can.

By recognizing the address as linking to the Daily Mail, you can already infer that the article on the other end will be trollish, factually inaccurate, and probably badly written.

What more would you need to know?

That's a dodge. I would want to know why it "enrages thousands". Or I wouldn't have had a look.

I'll let Karajorma answer. You are just messing with me.

[karajorma]

I'm saying don't go there at all. But since you've already gone there, discuss the subject if you must but don't go there again or encourage anyone else to go there.

[headdie]

in short the british printed press have earned a reputation for being sensation mongers to the point that the Daily Mail, the Sun and the likes dont print news as such any more, while their storys usually start off with some degree of truth*¹ the finished article is often twisted and abused to the point it barely resembles this truth with facts and figures distorted by several orders of magnitude in order to promote outrage, for example two celebrities go for a drink together and a reporter/"source" spots them and asks the bartender what they have had, the bartender might say a few beers, a couple of shots of vodka and some wine, by the time it's printed this will have become 15 pints, 12 shots of vodka and 8 bottles of wine.

*¹ stoiries arn't always based in fact thoug, Daily Mail chief editor at the time Piers Morgan lost his job as after not fact checking a bull**** story about British troops abusing Iraqi POW around the time the Americans were being accused the same just because it was a story he wanted to run for his own agenda.

[Lorric]

I'm saying don't go there at all. But since you've already gone there, discuss the subject if you must but don't go there again or encourage anyone else to go there.

Ah, I see.

Thanks.

[karajorma]

stoiries arn't always based in fact thoug, Daily Mail chief editor at the time Piers Morgan lost his job as after not fact checking a bull**** story about British troops abusing Iraqi POW around the time the Americans were being accused the same just because it was a story he wanted to run for his own agenda.

I'm fairly sure that was The Mirror, not The Daily Mail.


The broadsheets are generally fairly trustworthy. It's the tabloids and tabsheets that are the problems.

[headdie]

ahhh yes so it was the Daily Mirror, my mistake

[Lorric]

That's the trio right there, people. The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Mirror. Avoid these like the plague. Fish and chip wrap is all they're good for.

[wistler]

I hate the tabloids. There sensationalist and opinionated. The daily sport has pictures of boobs so that's okay to read.

[Phantom Hoover]

So on the topic of the Daily Mail being ****, I see the completely needless measles epidemic precipitated by their MMR scare has now killed someone.

[karajorma]

Yeah but none of the tabloids will ever take responsibility for their part in that nonsense.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22146173

Dr Marion Lyons, director of health protection at Public Health Wales (PHW), said at one stage, 45% of children in the Swansea area had not been vaccinated against measles.

That figure had since fallen to 10-15% but it is still considered too low to stop the spread of the highly infectious disease.

But Mr Edwards, who was editor of the Evening Post at the time of the MMR scare, said the newspaper was not responsible for the low uptake of the vaccine.

"As I saw it, their [the readers] concerns were totally genuine," he told BBC current affairs series The Wales Report.

"What were we supposed to do? Tell them to go away?

"That isn't what newspapers do. Newspapers listen to their readers, report what they say, and then they go to the relevant people and say 'what have you got to say about this?'

"And then they publish that response."

He added: "It's impossible to have regrets. I'm certain that if we wound the clock back and started again, I can't imagine any reason why we wouldn't do it the same way.

[Suongadon]

How the **** is getting an MMR vaccine not like... the law in the UK like it is in the US?

[Phantom Hoover]

Well, even Wakefield was responsible enough to say that you should still give your kids the component vaccines separately. Nobody actually did this.

[karajorma]

Well, even Wakefield was responsible enough to say that you should still give your kids the component vaccines separately.

Of course he did. He had applied for patents on an alternative vaccine.

Yeah.....most people don't realise what a thoroughly nasty piece of **** Andrew Wakefield really is.

[Hobbie]

Whoa whoa, wait a second, The Sun has Page 3. It's worth getting for that reason alone.

Okay, yeah, it's still horrible and if you use the excuse "I only read it for the articles" someone's likely to shoot you.

[karajorma]

Whoa whoa, wait a second, The Sun has Page 3. It's worth getting for that reason alone.

We have the internet now. You can get your boobies for free. No need to pay for a ****ty newspaper.

[MP-Ryan]

How the **** is getting an MMR vaccine not like... the law in the UK like it is in the US?

Because it's not the law in the US either?

Much as I would like to see mandatory vaccination in certain applications (public school, for instance), I'm not aware of any democracy that has successfully required all persons to be forced to receive vaccination with legal penalties in place, USA included.  Most States require proof of MMR vaccination to attend public school, but there are exemptions in place.

Don't get me wrong, I fully think the US has the right idea on this issue, let's just not confuse the framework in the US with mandatory forced vaccination of every person.

[-Sara-]

I've stopped reading any kind of news site ending with .co.uk (or the occasional British newspaper left behind by an international student back at college). I can't help but feel that the majority of them either twist around words, tell lies or have nothing better to write about. Here on the 'continent' such articles usually go in glossy magazines, usually with the face of badly photoshopped (read de-wrinkled) former celebrity on the cover; they do not end up in newspapers.

[FlamingCobra]

I don't read any news but BBC and Joystiq.

Over here we make it a point to avoid CNN and Fox like the plague.