Should The Use Of The Daily Mail's Web-Site Now Be Banned On Answerbank?

[anotheoldgit]

We have recently seen accusations of the Daily Mail being "a white supremacist rag". "displaying poor quality journalism", "the leering over photos of teenage girls", and "the showing of women in various stages of undress" (even though these may be in the Femail section).

So In light of the disruption to this site (according to some ABers) which the Daily Mail seems to cause, should it now be removed to 'Room 101'

[jno]

no, I wouldn't want to see some of our more elderly and unimaginative ABers put out of work; they might respond by going out on the streets and joining knife gangs.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Yes, indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GeKLE0x3s

[sp1814]

Absolutely not!

I enjoy an occasional trip around the Daily Mail when a question is posted with a link to the site.

...in the same way that Victorians liked to take a stroll around Bedlam back in the 1860s.

No ban please.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

You wrote:

"I'm sure it wont be long AOG.

AP, the loony left are usually the first to take umbridge and deride the paper even when the topic appears on other sites including the Guardian."

'umbridge'?

For a moment I thought you were talking about The Archers...

[Answerprancer]

LOL yes or Humphrey from Vision On!

[Svejk]

As an aside. Would someone post a link to one of the Daily Mirror phone-tapping threads. As it turned out they tapped more phones than all of Murdoch's papers put together, I presume there must be a few of them.

[craft1948]

I love my DM...

[Answerprancer]

'Soft, strong and highly absorbent' Craft?

[boxtops]

No, it has a good crossword.

[THECORBYLOON]

What disruption is it causing to the AB site?

[Backdrifter]

The DM is extremely silly at best, nastily hatemongering at worst and often dangerously misleading - its drivellings about science issues and in particular health usually give the impression of having been hammered out by monkeys with keyboards - but of course it should not be "banned", here or elsewhere. I'm not sure I see what the OP is getting at. The DM quite rightly gets frequently knocked for being rubbish, but is anyone saying it should be banned?!

Yes I liked "take umbridge" as well. She was one of the baddies in Harry Potter.

[Answerprancer]

"What disruption is it causing to the AB site?"
None whatsoever afaic.
People quote from it and reactions occur as a result, I don't think that's disruptive - testing maybe.

[BlackadderV]

If the DM went, then so would AOG and AP, as their raisons d'être would have disappeared.

[Answerprancer]

Nah, we'd focus more on our relationship in the absence of our raison d'être.
We would put our differences behind us and play virtual "twinks and bears" online in front of a bemused crown of virtual onlookers - you'd be there in the background spanking the monkey as we exchanged subtleties :-)

[Answerprancer]

*crowd

[BlackadderV]

"Spanking the monkey?"

I may have my proclivities but have never been introduced to that practice before.

[Answerprancer]

Boxtops/Craft ...are you co-joined?

[Answerprancer]

Yeah yeah, what - because it makes you go blind?
Pull the other one (pardon the pun) ;-)

[vetuste_ennemi]

"Yeah yeah, what - because it makes you go blind?
Pull the other one (pardon the pun) ;-)"
You're a K short of an anagram.