Daily Fail stiring up cyclist hate yet again.

[postman]

The capital has seen a spate of crime carried out on scooters in recent months, including smash and grabs on shops and bag snatches on pavements.

Part of a newspaper report.Shame nobody has decided to have a go at moped riders.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

So many DM haters on this forum (understandable) Which is why I'm always surprised just how many threads are started with links to it. Just stop it. Ignore it.

Will ignoring it make the stupid articles stop? I doubt it. Better to ridicule the articles on every media possible, to let its authors know that there are some people out there who think they're idiots for writing such rubbish.

 

[jefmcg]

Will ignoring it make the stupid articles stop? I doubt it. Better to ridicule the articles on every media possible, to let its authors know that there are some people out there who think they're idiots for writing such rubbish.

Click bait doesn't care if you click out of love or hate, as long as you click. Ignoring is the only to stop it.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Click bait doesn't care if you click out of love or hate, as long as you click. Ignoring is the only to stop it.

That won't work. Ignoring it won't make the problem vanish, and the regular Daily Mail readers will just be all the more convinced the articles make sense. One way to combat that is to offer contrasting opinions. Some of the Daily Mail regulars might even listen to and agree with these contrasting opinions, and some might not. But it's certain that next to nothing will be achieved by ignoring these articles, because it will have negligible effect on the total clicks.

 

[Drago]

Ignore it - you can't teach dumb.

 

[Cycleops]

Agreed its fairly pathetic journalism but if you read the comments there's a reasonable ammont of opposition. One comments 'How many cyclists cause injuries and fatalities compared to motorists' which I think just about sums it up.

 

[Gixxerman]

Agreed its fairly pathetic journalism but if you read the comments there's a reasonable ammont of opposition. One comments 'How many cyclists cause injuries and fatalities compared to motorists' which I think just about sums it up.

I added a few comments (Rasen Smiffy), simply because some of the drivvle irks me. Alas, I fear that it like trying to teach a dog to play chess, futile and infuriating. As people have pointed out, it is probably best just to ignore it. If only I could bring myself to do it.

 

[Gixxerman]

Best comment so far.

"I wonder how much the average DM readership IQ would increase if all the people who had been "nearly killed" by a cyclist had actually been killed?"

I do hope that is someone on here as that is simply brilliant.

 

[Tin Pot]

Let's not let the dm win.

Here's the text so you don't have to support them by visiting the site



PS I didn't actually read it

Blimey, goes on a bit doesn't it?

I for one am glad that cycling angers Daily Heil readers - they are the root of all evil, after all.

 

[bigjim]

Blimey, goes on a bit doesn't it?

I for one am glad that cycling angers Daily Heil readers - they are the root of all evil, after all.

I must be the devil incarnate then. I read tha Mail. also the Guardian, the Express, Telegraph and so on plus the local rags. Why should I limit my reading because I ride a bike? I don't find any paper to be independent. I like the Guardian articles, I don't like their bias. Not allowing comments on certain articles or slanting them to make a political point, but they do allow a lot of comments on some stuff. The Express is even worse for this though. The Mail is totally anti cyclist and some of their articles verge on criminality IMO, but they are more free with comments than other papers and therefore more entertaining. As long as you don't believe a word they say it's all pretty much ok.

 

[Cycleops]

I for one am glad that cycling angers Daily Heil readers - they are the root of all evil, after all.

Well, the OP read it and so did others who commented. Guess we have to be resigned to communing with Beelzebub.

 

[Profpointy]

Will ignoring it make the stupid articles stop? I doubt it. Better to ridicule the articles on every media possible, to let its authors know that there are some people out there who think they're idiots for writing such rubbish.

Well ok, but every time you click on a daily mail link you are quite literally giving them money and also quite literally paying for further anti cyclist propaganda which can often come close to incitement to kill cyclists (supposedly just a joke). This is quite apart from casual racism, homophobia, sexism etc even though they may slightly downplay their former support for Hitler

Just don't click folks

 

[Tin Pot]

As long as you don't believe a word they say it's all pretty much ok.

I would pay them to make this their new motto!

 

[Cycleops]

Just don't click folks

I think we're all old enough to make up our own minds.

 

[jefmcg]

Well ok, but every time you click on a daily mail link you are quite literally giving them money and also quite literally paying for further anti cyclist propaganda which can often come close to incitement to kill cyclists (supposedly just a joke). This is quite apart from casual racism, homophobia, sexism etc even though they may slightly downplay their former support for Hitler

Just don't click folks

I was about to reply to the same post.

It's quite charming that someone thinks they can shame DM journos into better paper. They know what they do for a living, they know what the the newspaper is like, they know the editorial policies. If they were capable of shame, they would be doing something else.