Prefer a different kind of daily mail (The Mail)

Name: sympatic

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Product:	The Mail
Date:	08/03/08 (53 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good TV guide

Disadvantages: Too right wing for me

I have to confess I rarely buy a newspaper however I do tend to buy The Mail on a Saturday rather than every day mainly because it has the best TV guide for the week ahead with a good balance of both terestial channels and also satellite ones.

On a Saturay the paper costs seventy pence and it is in a tabloid format. From the times I have bought this during the week or read it at my parents house where they get it delivered it is basically the same format however you do not get as many pages of adverts in the week and there is only a magazine inset at the weekend.

This is a rather right wing middle class paper and its editorial andjournalistic style reflects that, lots of right wing scare stories about immigration problems, aslum seekers claiming benefits and crime rampages by teenagers. It is aimed at a white middle class readership, in todays copy there is an article about a teenager wrecking a nice surburban house following a "skins" inspired party and one about how much child benefit finds its way back to Eastern Europe.

The only real reason I buy it is for the excellent magazine which has a great TV guide in it but the rest of the paper is easy to read and they do have some good travel items in the middle section as well as the odd human interest story.

The sport coveridge is more on rugby and golf rather than football but I only scan these pages for pictures of fit blokes.

Overall I'm not a fan of the paper but I like the TV guide and the paper can be read easily in less than an hour.

Summary: Daily news paper.