A Bargain Price . . . for an Excellent Read (The Mail on Sunday)

Member Name: Glasgow Girl

Product:	The Mail on Sunday
Date:	20/11/00 (127 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: An Excellent 'read'.

Disadvantages: Sport included as part of the REAL news

Just the other day, I was lucky enough to receive a whole sheet of ‘1 penny’ vouchers for this newspaper,
and its daily equivalent, the Daily Mail.

I live in Glasgow, and in these parts,
the big name media companies are in a constant state of ‘war’.

The Scottish Media Group,
who own the locally based newspapers,
the Herald and the Evening Times,
usually take a back seat and allow the others to squabble amongst themselves.

The Sun is printed in Kinning Park on the south side of the Clyde, while the Daily Record has recently spent millions on its riverside complex on the north bank.
A sister paper to the English Daily Mirror, the Daily Record has a hard time of it, trying to protect its vulnerable lead in sales and the close proximity of the main competition causes both parties no end of discomfort.

Also included in this ‘media war’ is the subject of this dooyoo, The Daily Mail.

From a personal perspective, the amazing offer, from the Mail on Sunday, was simply another volley fired across the bows of its competitors.

That said, to be able to buy a newspaper of over one hundred pages for one penny, was too good an offer for Glasgow Girl to miss.

So, I popped out to my local newsagent and made the purchase, as early on Sunday as I could.

The end of
“Steve Wright’s Sunday Morning Love Songs” (Radio 2)
is early enough for anyone, surely?

I find the broadsheet newspapers to be a throwback from an earlier age
so the tabloid format of the Mail on Sunday is my preferred choice,
as you will see if you read my other opinion in the
newspapers in general
section of dooyoo.

This Sunday, (19th November 2000)
the front page of the main section was dedicated to Tony Blair’s stance on a Euro Army, and the resultant 'humiliation' of his capitulation
.

110 pages of the main section were full of the best in journalism,
the rest was dedicated to SPORT,
need I say more?

Why the Mail on Sunday has to put SPORT in among the 'real' news is beyond me.

Then again, that complaint is one which can be directed at so much of the news industry these days.
(Thinks . . .I must try and get a dooyoo done on that soon)

The one little grouse I have is that,
with a separate pull out section on finance and the various ‘magazine’ sections,
why not make the SPORT
and the “Review” sections 'pull out' too?

The Revue section was the cause of a small tiff in the GG/auldmac household this week-end.
I mean, what is a girl to do? . . .

It sits there, the title, “Revue”
staring you in the face
and daring you to pull it out . . .

I only hope you don’t do as I did
and try just that.
My other half did not take kindly to my attempted extraction techniques . . .
suffice to say,
if the paper had made “Revue” a pull-out
and not just a ‘look alike’ . . .
all would have been well.

Back to the proper business of this dooyoo . . .

Apart from the 'Sport' quibble,
I thought the gardening section deserved a section to itself too.

On the other hand, the travel section left a bit to be desired.

From a practical standpoint,
separate sections would also mean that the 'sport' section could be thrown in the bucket right away.

Overall, this is an excellent newspaper, with good reviews and interviews.

The news reporting has always had my vote and the politics section is all right,
if you are of that particular persuasion.

All in all the Mail on Sunday is an excellent read.

I recommend it wholeheartedly.
GG

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