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But yeah. "Tabloids are manipulative and publish untrue stories" isn't exactly mindblowing, heh, though I am impressed by the amount of effort they went to in order to get their fake statistics.
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But yeah. "Tabloids are manipulative and publish untrue stories" isn't exactly mindblowing, heh, though I am impressed by the amount of effort they went to in order to get their fake statistics.
Gaming is a double-edged sword. My exhusband and I used WoW to keep in contact when the Army had us stationed on opposite sides of the world. It was a great way for us to still be able to spend time together.
On the other hand...He met 3 of the women he cheated on me with on WoW, including the one he eventually knocked up and left me for.
In short, it's kinda a neutral thing. What makes it good/bad is how you use it.
On the other hand...He met 3 of the women he cheated on me with on WoW, including the one he eventually knocked up and left me for.
In short, it's kinda a neutral thing. What makes it good/bad is how you use it.
I think there's nothing really to say about anything the Daily Mail publishes besides "LOL DAILY MAIL"
Called it. As did we all. Maybe we should stop reporting on Daily Mail articles, boosting their site views? It's really not worth the attention they get given
Except fewer people read it. I'm pretty sure not even it's readers take it seriously any more.Megacherv said:
Think about how stupid it would be for someone to file for divorce because of a reading addiction. Just because someone loves something doesn't make it an addiction.
How unlike the Daily Mail to fabricate and misconstrue in order to find a story that fits their agenda... in reality the Daily Mail is about as good a source of news as any tabloid (i.e. not at all) and is nothing more than an over-hyped, un-glossed "women's" ([sub]should be gossip/BS[/sub]) magazine, and should be viewed appropriately.
I am grateful that stories like this are highlighted though, lest they be mistaken for the truth...
I am grateful that stories like this are highlighted though, lest they be mistaken for the truth...
The Daily Mail, monstrous as it is, has a circulation of 2.1m. Its only real competitor is The Sun - which has a UK circulation of around 3m (and a truly horrifying worldwide circulation of 7.7m).Little Duck said:
The Sun is owned by News International aka Rupert 'Fox News' Murdoch. So is The Times (500,000 readers), which is our most successful broadsheet (although it's tabloid-size nowadays, isn't it? Never mind).
There's no getting away from the fact that the most successful 'newspapers' in the UK are all heavily Conservative (they're selling to 'middle England', remember) - so it's not necessarily bad reporting to pick one of those when you want a UK perspective.
Even if picking the Mail is rather a lot like picking Fox News (which is part of the point, really; their insane, over-the-top right-wing nonsense makes for a more entertaining article)
That would just be shifting from a right-wing tabloid to a left-wing tabloid.hudsonzero said:
While I quite often enjoy pieces from The Independent (especially Johann Hari) and The Guardian (I've even written for them), they are just the left-wing equivalents of the Daily Mail - there's still considerable bias present in the reporting, it's just more palatable to those of us who aren't Tories.
(although the Grauniad and the Independent do tend to make up stories a bit less than the Mail, I hope)
I demand a link for this kind of lolzForsakenUK said:
OT: the daily mail, thinking something new and popular is bad. NO WAI
My post in the previous news story basically was just entirely justified by this.
People divorce because their relationships suck and probably shouldn't have gotten married.
And in this case, again from the other story, I said that she left him high and dry because of gaming? Bollocks. This story proves it. No person that loves someone else will penalize them for keeping in contact with long distance friends. Sure they guy isnt blameless in this, but hey.
The Daily Mail isnt good enough to wrap my fish and chips. I feel sorry for all those that feel informed from it.
People divorce because their relationships suck and probably shouldn't have gotten married.
And in this case, again from the other story, I said that she left him high and dry because of gaming? Bollocks. This story proves it. No person that loves someone else will penalize them for keeping in contact with long distance friends. Sure they guy isnt blameless in this, but hey.
The Daily Mail isnt good enough to wrap my fish and chips. I feel sorry for all those that feel informed from it.
Citing video gaming is just a bad excuse for not citing "Cannot Communicate Properly." I'm sure most of the people knew they were getting into a marriage with someone who liked video games and may excessively play them. There was a failure of communication then if they are having problems now.
Well...tabloids. And that about sums up my oppinion.
I don't know about other contries, but around these parts, tabloids are as reliable as your avarage con man. I sometimes read them at the barber shop and have great fun with them but every single sentence reeks of bad manipulation attempts and deliberately placed misinformation.
It's not surprising at all that they use the popular beleief that gaming destroys your social life as a way to make fake news. Not at all...
I don't know about other contries, but around these parts, tabloids are as reliable as your avarage con man. I sometimes read them at the barber shop and have great fun with them but every single sentence reeks of bad manipulation attempts and deliberately placed misinformation.
It's not surprising at all that they use the popular beleief that gaming destroys your social life as a way to make fake news. Not at all...