The Daily Mail's Dark Worldview
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source: The Daily Mail: Women Are Evil, Immigrants Are Evil and the EU Is Too - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Read on and carry on etc rinse and repeat.
The Daily Mail's Dark Worldview
As British newspapers go, the Daily Mail is a bit like Marmite. People either love it or hate it.
Britain's Daily Mail is infamous for spreading hatred and fear. The newspaper has become even more shrill following Brexit. Wikipedia banned use of the publication as a reference last week, but the decision is unlikely to change much.
At least 1.5 million people love it enough to buy it every day, making it second only to the Sun in the list of top selling newspapers. It is popular in small towns and private gyms, in waiting rooms at the dentist. You'll find it on the front-seat of SUVs driven by full-time moms, and in the front rooms of the white middle-aged middle class who take it with instant coffee and probably a biscuit. Unlike most British newspapers (including my own), it is profitable.
But among the metropolitan elite it is loathed with a fury. Because of the division it sows, the xenophobia it peddles (there are virtually never black faces in its pages, unless they are criminals or sports stars) the boundaries it pushes, the causes it espouses: Immigration is evil, social welfare is evil, working women are evil, Europe is evil, aid is evil, the BBC is evil ...
Now, Wikipedia has made up its mind. Editors at the online encyclopedia have decided that the newspaper has become so unreliable that it should not be used as a reference.
"The Daily Mail should not be used for determining notability, nor should it be used as a source in articles," a Wikipedia editor wrote. "An edit filter should be put in place, going forward to warn editors attempting to use the Daily Mail as a reference."
As British newspapers go, the Daily Mail is a bit like Marmite. People either love it or hate it.
Britain's Daily Mail is infamous for spreading hatred and fear. The newspaper has become even more shrill following Brexit. Wikipedia banned use of the publication as a reference last week, but the decision is unlikely to change much.
At least 1.5 million people love it enough to buy it every day, making it second only to the Sun in the list of top selling newspapers. It is popular in small towns and private gyms, in waiting rooms at the dentist. You'll find it on the front-seat of SUVs driven by full-time moms, and in the front rooms of the white middle-aged middle class who take it with instant coffee and probably a biscuit. Unlike most British newspapers (including my own), it is profitable.
But among the metropolitan elite it is loathed with a fury. Because of the division it sows, the xenophobia it peddles (there are virtually never black faces in its pages, unless they are criminals or sports stars) the boundaries it pushes, the causes it espouses: Immigration is evil, social welfare is evil, working women are evil, Europe is evil, aid is evil, the BBC is evil ...
Now, Wikipedia has made up its mind. Editors at the online encyclopedia have decided that the newspaper has become so unreliable that it should not be used as a reference.
"The Daily Mail should not be used for determining notability, nor should it be used as a source in articles," a Wikipedia editor wrote. "An edit filter should be put in place, going forward to warn editors attempting to use the Daily Mail as a reference."
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