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Title: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 28, 2017, 02:04:28 AM
To keep its standards  up

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/daily-mail-sparks-sexism-row-after-may-sturgeon-paper-compares-leaders-legs-1613990



Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: floo on March 28, 2017, 08:35:56 AM
That ghastly tabloid certainly knows how to plumb the depths of human depravity! >:(
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Robbie on March 28, 2017, 12:31:49 PM
It was silly and sexist but hardly the depths of human depravity.
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 28, 2017, 12:34:53 PM
It was silly and sexist but hardly the depths of human depravity.
Floo only does 2 settings, OK and utterly evil beyond your wildest imagination!
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Rhiannon on March 28, 2017, 12:58:24 PM
It's ironic, like pretending to like nylon shirts and huge moustaches... isn't it?  ???
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 28, 2017, 01:00:55 PM
Please everybody, don't take the Daily Wail seriously.

I sometimes post on the Wail, on issues of major global importance such as Cheryl Tweedy/Cole/Whatever's bum tattoo.
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Robbie on March 28, 2017, 01:04:04 PM
(To Rhiannon):Doesn't everyone?  (Joking)

The Mail is dire, always surprises me that it's so popular& what's worse is  readers seem to believe all it states - immigrants, benefit scroungers and the like, but this article is mild really, more Sun-like.

(NSane yes I get that  :). )
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: floo on March 28, 2017, 02:38:20 PM
Floo only does 2 settings, OK and utterly evil beyond your wildest imagination!

Rather more settings than that, dearie! ;D
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Keith Maitland on March 28, 2017, 06:26:52 PM
Wow..... And now The New York Times is covering this story:


Many readers were immediately appalled that the encounter between Theresa May, the prime minister, and Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, had been reduced to a comparison of their bodies. By Tuesday afternoon, at least one complaint had been filed with Britain’s press regulator.

“This is 2017,” Chuka Umunna, a Labour lawmaker, wrote on Twitter. “Sexist does not begin to describe this front page.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/world/europe/uk-daily-mail-legs.html?_r=0
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: jeremyp on March 28, 2017, 08:11:12 PM
It was silly and sexist but hardly the depths of human depravity.
It was worse than silly. Two of the most powerful leaders of the UK meet to discuss all our futures and an alleged newspaper of record chooses to letch over their legs.Maybe not depraved but somebody needs to get fired for this.
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on March 28, 2017, 08:22:02 PM
To keep its standards  up

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/daily-mail-sparks-sexism-row-after-may-sturgeon-paper-compares-leaders-legs-1613990

Far worse was their "serious" article which claimed that Tezza slaughtered Krankie.
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Rhiannon on March 28, 2017, 08:35:14 PM
It was worse than silly. Two of the most powerful leaders of the UK meet to discuss all our futures and an alleged newspaper of record chooses to letch over their legs.Maybe not depraved but somebody needs to get fired for this.

I agree. It's pretty disgusting.
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Bubbles on March 29, 2017, 07:04:25 AM
Floo only does 2 settings, OK and utterly evil beyond your wildest imagination!

 ;D

Or ' evil scum' as she puts it 😉
Title: Re: And the Daily Mail plumbs a journalistic low..
Post by: Keith Maitland on March 31, 2017, 02:57:01 AM
You can bet your bottom dollar euro that the next time Angela Merkel sits for a photo shoot with your leggy Prime Minister, she will be wearing the shortest lederhosen she can squeeze into.


;D