Breaking my DailyMail habit

[Anonymous]

Okay, I’ve always known DM is sleazy, but I just love the celeb coverage and all the niche celeb subcultures they cover, including wags, 90s stars, nobility, etc. As an example, they have lots of Damien Lewis stories and deep dives into the kardashian real estate holdings. I stick to the right side so I’m not getting the political stuff or scary news. But whenever I inadvertently end up on the classic homepage I feel awful. It’s like Fox News on paper. They mercilessly mock biden and glorify trump. I just can’t support it anymore.

Where can I get my fix? People.com is too…American, and I can’t scan dozens of headlines as easily.

[Anonymous]

Sorry OP, there's nothing like it. The soothing scroll of the right margin headlines, the endless cutting of figures, the best one-line sub-headlines in the biz. People is basically Highlights magazine in comparison. My deterrent is I won't download the app and the site threatens to kill any device I open it on. I guess you could try Daily mirror? The sun? They're not the same though. The upside is you'll discover that Premier League gossip is not nearly as interesting when covered by other sites so should help your detox.

[Anonymous]

DailyMail is amazing for gossip, true crime, etc. They really will publish anything.

[Anonymous]

Why feel bad? DailyMail is just an aggregator of news from around the US and the World. It has a lot of entertainment and a smattering of truth.

Anything major situation in the US, DM is on it and they are my go to bc they always have at least some outline of the situation available before other networks.

The headlines are almost always misleading and meant to be clickbait. Once you read the bullet points you realize what part of the headline is exaggerated.

[Anonymous]

I feel the same way, OP. Their political bent seems to have grown more towards the right recently. I remember when I first discovered Daily Mail, it was mainly celeb gossip with little political coverage. But now...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel the same way, OP. Their political bent seems to have grown more towards the right recently. I remember when I first discovered Daily Mail, it was mainly celeb gossip with little political coverage. But now...

Lol. It’s been right for a while. Years.

[Anonymous]

OP here. As usual, dcum PP’s articulated my thoughts better than I ever could. There is something so soothing about the headlines, the mix… but I am committed to not supporting these people.

I wouldn’t mind a slight right wing bent. I’m not exactly “woke” myself. But the endless bashing and attempts to “get” and embarrass democrats from every walk of life is too much. Does this help their bottom line? Or they know they have an amazing vehicle for positions they support and people like me will read anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People is basically Highlights magazine in comparison.

This is hysterical!

[Anonymous]

I had to drop it when they ran an ad sponsored by Israel stating Amnesty International was terrorists handing behind “humanitarianism”. Still miss it.

[Anonymous]

If you start out with the premise that all you see written is a lie including the pictures, it will lose it's shine.

[Anonymous]

Two things broke my habit: One was reading some of the comments. It sickened me to realize that by supporting the DM, I was also supporting a forum for disseminating hate.
The other was actually reading the articles. My initial attraction was mostly to the pictures. Actually reading the articles and realizing how shady many of them were, again, I realized that this was not something I wanted to support -- or to be immersed in. I'm in for a bit of gossip -- but "sources close to..." and "it is thought that...." just felt so shady -- as though the gossip mongers talked to each other, or had "thoughts" that they decided to treat as actual sources. I got tired of all of the imaginary, unsupported "facts". I felt like I was rotting my brain -- when, really, I wanted to be light level entertained, and wasn't getting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. As usual, dcum PP’s articulated my thoughts better than I ever could. There is something so soothing about the headlines, the mix… but I am committed to not supporting these people.

I wouldn’t mind a slight right wing bent. I’m not exactly “woke” myself. But the endless bashing and attempts to “get” and embarrass democrats from every walk of life is too much. Does this help their bottom line? Or they know they have an amazing vehicle for positions they support and people like me will read anyway?

Tbh, I think it’s a publication that uses celeb gossip to attract white women and then push rightwing political content at them. It’s really effective.

The publication has been long owned by British aristocrats, the Harmsworth family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, I’ve always known DM is sleazy, but I just love the celeb coverage and all the niche celeb subcultures they cover, including wags, 90s stars, nobility, etc. As an example, they have lots of Damien Lewis stories and deep dives into the kardashian real estate holdings. I stick to the right side so I’m not getting the political stuff or scary news. But whenever I inadvertently end up on the classic homepage I feel awful. It’s like Fox News on paper. They mercilessly mock biden and glorify trump. I just can’t support it anymore.

Where can I get my fix? People.com is too…American, and I can’t scan dozens of headlines as easily.

As opposed to MSN and CNN that mock Trump and glorify Biden?

[Anonymous]

I feel your pain, OP.

It's the NY Post for me. I can't help myself.

[Anonymous]

Daily Mail is disgusting but I visit it almost every day because they are excellent at dissemination of the day’s stories of domestic violence murders so it reminds me that choosing the path of never married no children greatly reduced my likelihood of ever being murdered in my own home. Husbands and kids are potential killers and long suffering wives/mothers are too often expendable in their world view.