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Topic History of: Mail Supremacy - How the Daily Mail Conquered England Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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veritas
funny anecdote about this in Private Eye.
Gary Glutton
Check the Independant On Sunday 29 Aug 2004, late great (1960s-1990s pre-Murdochized Beeb) star D.J./Broadcaster/Producer Margrave Of The Marshes/John (Ravenscroft) Peel's, telling last interview, last lines,
" RUPERT MURDOCH HAS DESTROYED MOST OF WHAT WAS GOOD ABOUT THIS COUNTRY ! "
david
DJones wrote: In 2010, a bearded, guitar-strumming band called Dan & Dan had a YouTube hit with “The Daily Mail Song,” which, so far, has been viewed more than 1.3 million times.
I believe you're referring to this ditty
DJones
long, but worth reading:
"The Mail presents itself as the defender of traditional British values, the voice of an overlooked majority whose opinions inconvenience the agendas of metropolitan élites. To its detractors, it is the Hate Mail, goading the worst curtain-twitching instincts of an island nation, or the Daily Fail, fuelling paranoia about everything from immigration to skin conditions. (“WITHIN A DAY OF HIS ECZEMA BEING INFECTED, MARC WAS DEAD,” a recent headline warned.) A Briton’s view of the Mail is a totemic indicator of his sociopolitical orientation, the dinner-party signal for where he stands on a host of other matters. In 2010, a bearded, guitar-strumming band called Dan & Dan had a YouTube hit with “The Daily Mail Song,” which, so far, has been viewed more than 1.3 million times. “Bring back capital punishment for pedophiles / Photo feature on schoolgirl skirt styles / Binge Britain! Single Mums! / Pensioners! Hoodie Scum!” Dan sings. “It’s absolutely true because I read it in the Daily Mail.” The Mail is less a parody of itself than a parody of the parody, its rectitudinousness cancelling out others’ ridicule to render a middlebrow juggernaut that can slay knights and sway Prime Ministers."
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