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by jariel 1880 days ago
'The Daily Mail' has a case. Go and visit their site right now [1] and tell me where the inflammatory or irresponsible headline is.

Now try 'The Daily Beast' [2], it's I think a little bit worse, and you have this flame-nugget: "White Violence Links Black Lives From Emmett Till to Floyd" which is an interesting thesis, but kind of racist.

The DM really isn't that bad, and much like the issue of 'Fidel Castro' it's a litmus test to see if people are emotionally clouded ideologues or not.

DM is a regular tabloid, that's it.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html [2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/
1 comments
permo-w 1880 days ago
How about go and visit the Daily Mail’s mobile page and a few articles, and tell me again that they have a case.

The mail should be spending more on web development and less on lawyers.

Of course they can’t turn web development into self-sustaining sensationalism though, can they?

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jariel 1879 days ago
The same thing applies to the Daily Beast and any number of other outfits.

That you would pick on this one highlights the bias in the system.

If there were a 'disconcerting rag' it would be Brietbart, not the Daily Mail.

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permo-w 1879 days ago
the daily mail website is literally unusable on mobile. other sites are bad, but I’ve not seen a single other one where you literally can’t scroll down the page

that I would pick on this one doesn’t highlight the bias in the system, it highlights that the article I’m commenting on is about the daily mail

I don’t see how breitbart is relevant

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jariel 1879 days ago
The issue has nothing to do with technology, it has to do with 'quality' information ranking and Google's supposed bias with regards to who they deem 'credible' and not.

Breitbart is a much more aggressive tabloid, and individuals within Google wanted to ban it outright, arguably because of their 'poor quality' but mostly because their political bias.

My point is that if there is a 'right wing tabloid with questionable legitimacy' that might make people uncomfortable, it's Breitbart. Not The DM.

People are lamenting the DM here because they use 'click bait' headlines and 'misrepresent' information, people are using shamefully hyperbolic language on this thread.

But in reality The DM is just a regular tabloid, and it's not that bad - technical quality issues notwithstanding.

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permo-w 1877 days ago
Should Google give the Mail a pass for having a shit website because their content is controversial?
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