Daily Mail reacts to MCR fan protest

dont bother protesting about wars and thwarted earthquake relief efforts in communist countries, just march on the most obvious of right-wing tabloids because they dont 'understand' it because they 'dont like it' or whatever.

i hate that paper too, but their stories and editorials ARE so over the top that no one I know personally would take them seriously or be offended by them. its funnier than Viz.

people do read this paper for serious reasons. these are the same people who got massively offended by Brass Eye

But the Daily Mail are fuckers so anything that causes them grief is good. I never read the article in which they slated emo but from what ihear it was enormously ill founded so fuck 'em.

LOLZA

Does anyone else die a little inside when they find out a seemingly respectable individual reads the Daily Mail? Unfortunately, it seems to be an all too often occurence.

No Coloureds, No Dogs, No Catholics, No Foreigners

surely theyve drawn attention to that fact that a lot of kids dont agree with the daily mail, gave the issue publicity (we are talking about it right now) and allowed a platform for those who can to criticise the daily mail?

That large swathes of the media are making out large groups of harmless people as subversive?

Its as if The Mail thinks that any young person who lives their life in any other way than a Boy's Own comic strip is somehow wrong.

Although I'm a fervent liberal I really try my hardest to accept different political viewpoints and I'll admit I can see the logic and values behind conservatism - despite not agreeing with them, but the Mail is just poisonous in its desire to attack the innocent in order to further its own ideology. Really it should just fuck the fuck off, so many people who write for it are terribly malignant wankers.

2nd live album from 3 studio albums = lame.

well done (Y)

people consider the daily mail to have some sort of influence on mainstream society. i dont think they think the same of the daily express.

i loathe that paper with every fiber of my being ((on reaction to the frontpage on the sight of more than one headline, i have felt compelled to rip every copy out of the rack, take them out the shop and throw them in the bin)...but most people know the daily express is ridiculous. it's not really a threat.

because it essentially take all the resentment of the British people - the relics of the old empire and all that - and pushes it in completely the wrong direction, i.e. in the direction of everything not British.

I swear that the Madeline McCann thing would have hardly covered by the Mail if it'd happened in England. As it's abroad though, they instantly have a foreign scapecoat. It couldn't possibly have been the fault of someone from middle England with values and decency. Hmm.

Also, the Daily Mail seems to treat every issue as if it were black and white, stuff like calling for the government to cut duty on fuel etc. It's just not that simple.

EMOZ ALL HARM THEMSELVES. MCR AR THE ONES WHO TELL THEM TO.

Real balanced.

The Daily Express are the main ones who rant on about Diana. Daily Mail do, but to a lesser degree.

"Since this protest was announced a great deal of misinformation has appeared on the internet, much of which confuses what the Daily Mail has actually published with the comments of website readers and 'blogs' over which we have no control and which have stirred up emotions."

What a load of shit. It's got nothing to do with the comments on the website, the articles themselves contain all the inflammatory sensationalist crap you need.

I read some of those articles in the Mail and they were very sensationalist, ill-informed and biased covering the threat of the emo death cult.
Of course, it's not like newspapers really need to worry about fair and factual these days when there's a good scare story to get on the go.

It does pretty much seem to be a lot of people marching to curtail free speech.

The Daily Mail article may well have been full of bullshit but, as they point out, they do have a right to reply (by writing to the papers or posting comments under the stories) and there is a Press Complaints Commission anyone is free to complain to if they feel a newspaper is out of order.

On the whole any protest much be to achieve something and I'm just not clear what this one is setting out to achieve given there are already channels in place to register dissatisfaction with a newspaper's content.

I wasn't sure. I know my gran always reads a paper that goes on and on about that Diana woman.

You can't stop the Daily Mail from publishing all these bullshit stories if people want to read them. The Daily Mail have every right to publish their shit and will continue to do so as long as you have the ignorant fools who lap it up.

It's a bit of a vicious circle though, we need some sort of cultural shift away from hateful ignorance, but that's not going to happen if newspapers such as the Daily Mail keep peddling it.

if anything it's an attempt to give a voice to the people whose voices have been excluded by the mainstream newspress in the coverage of this 'emo suicide' story.
If anything, however haphazardly they've done it these kids are finding trying to find a voice which balances out the bias in the reporting - I don't think they're saying the daily mail should never ever print anything about emo (of course they might be I'm not sure) but that if it is going to cover something then it should do it factually, honestly and in a way which takes in both sides of the story the way I think good news reporting always should.

of course, the mail can say (in private) this isn't just news reporting this is newspaper reporting and we can be as bile-fueled and wildly bias as we like and if you don't like then go and buy a paper that only covers things that enforce your own world view and leave us and our wilfully il informed prejudices alone.

I swear The Times website had a similarly titled article. I only read them for sport now. I'd read the Guardian if their sports editor wasn't a fucking nazi.

Independent all the way.

:'(

but that's another kettle of fish.

"The World's Greatest Newspaper".
LOL

On average, most suicides that have a soundtrack have a country music soundtrack rather than a Black Sabbath record going in reverse, a Marilyn Manson record or a My Chemical Romance record.

I've considered suicide whilst at a Go West concert in Butlins that my dad dragged me along to...

I buy The Times...

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