MAIL NOT MAN ENOUGH (The Mail)

Name: wilma

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Product:	The Mail
Date:	30/05/01 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: Sport section

Disadvantages: Tabloid trying to be good

As I’m all sure you know (if you have read my previous op on the Daily Telegraph), until recently I read the Daily Telegraph. However I found a problem with the best selling quality broadsheet in the country, and that was, that it was a broadsheet, it was just to darn big for cornflakes.

So on happy sunny day whilst picking up my paper, I decided to opt for another, this later caused problems as before I was such an enthusiast of the Telegraph that the shop owner thought that he had sold out, and apologised profusely.

So as I cast my eye upon the selection of newspapers, a picture happened to catch my eye, however as current international news issues are not really part of the Daily Sports criteria, I had to put it back, and opt for the Daily Mail instead.

Priced at 35p was the first point up on the Telegraph, and the second being that it is a tabloid (size) meant that I could read it at the kitchen table, and still eat my cornflakes in the morning.

To my shock I found that the Daily Mail sported a strange mix between, current issues and not so important tabloid issues, an example being the story on page 3 in the May 24 issues. It was a story all about some fluffy dog at crufts? Why does the country need to know about this rubbish? Then to make matters even worse I was subjected to 4 pages of election news, and the Conservative attempt to make Europe a big issue. The Mail however, I found to be very good on this topic, there were no tacky slogans suggesting disembowelment of our European neighbours, and even nothing about the war, they presented a factual informative article which I found very interesting, probably because one of my modules is the European Union this semester.

After the way they had pulled themselves out of the mud, to my horror on page 13, they seemed to jump straight back in with lead weights about their waist. A two-page spread all about how Tony Blair is trying to destroy the British way of life
, and how Europe are taking away out sovereignty. I’m sorry but I should know about this topic, and to be quite honest it was a load of sabre rattling rubbish, that was obviously printed to scare the British public into buying more papers to worry about it even more.

Further on in the paper I learnt all about the last German Kaisers Kinky sex games, and shock horror David Beckham has had a hair cut, so lets devote two pages to it, and dig up old pictures of famous people who once had the same. (I’m sorry mail but this was a vary Star thing to do, but with less scantily clad women.)

Then I had a dozen or pages relating to who doesn’t like who, whose sleeping with who, and where who’s been drinking, as well as the female who with the prettiest dress. I’m sure that to some people this is a vital piece of informative reporting but to me it was just a load of rubbish. Who cares? I say again!

In the centre pages we probably had the most informative article of the paper so far, and this was all about Elton John selling off some of his luxury cars. OK good for car or Elton lovers but no use to the rest of us.

Then we had 12 pages of the Fe-mail all about diets, celebrities lives and general rubbish like that, and then it was the television listings, thank God for something at least half useful in this so far waste of a tree.

To round up the paper we had the normal, letters page, puzzle page, and horoscope page, complete with cartoons at the back of the paper, and then we had a couple of pages of adverts for jobs, which I’m sure nobody could be qualified for, and a short section on business matters.

Finally we get to the Mail’s saving Grace, it’s the sports section, and surely this can’t be messed up like the rest of the paper. I was right, they couldn’t mess it up, in fact it was quite good considering. Apart from a completely useless article on David Beckham
217;s wages should he higher because he’s married to Posh Spice, it really wasn’t that bad. It reported on a wide range of sporting activities and were very up to date, even predicting a few things before they had happened, or been confirmed. Well done Daily Mail for finally doing something well.

All in all I was very disappointed with the ‘newspaper of the year’, in my opinion I wouldn’t even give it the paper of the year going under the name of the Daily Mail, because its rubbish. It presented several articles that were of no use to man or beast, was full of adverts for various things ranging from Virgin railways (please all train users clean spit from there computer screen!) to hundreds of cheep mobiles.

I’m fairly certain that I will have to go back to my Daily Telegraph, even with the cornflake problem, until I’ve found a suitable replacement, because quite frankly the Daily mail just wasn’t quit man enough.

P.S. for all of you saving well he only gave it one try, I actually tried reading it for a week, and this copy was the best out of a bad lot. Will

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