Posted on 01/11/2014 12:58:24 PM PST by Uncle Chip
“This is not “National Enquirer”. This is a conservative, mainstream, British paper.”
That’s what I always thought.
And just how many of those articles were posted here on FR???
We could find stories like you put together in almost any newspaper nowadays. The DailyMail has a lot of good stories and often more detail and information than you can get from USA papers.
Considering that essentially the same story was reported in the Washington Post (links up-thread), if the WP article was posted rather than the DM article, would you have had the same reaction?
In other words, ALL the "mainstream" papers have articles like the list you posted. So is the objection to the DM in particular, or "trivial" news stories in general (non-specific to what news site they came from)? Because a quick google search on FR threads referencing DM shows that there are a LOT of Daily Mail articles posted on FR, beyond the list you cite, including lots of "hard" news stories about world events, plus black-on-white crime which gets unreported in US media.
In summary, if the AM comment on post #2 had been "Please reserve the "News/Current Events" topic for stories of actual importance to the conservative cause", then I think most people here would have shrugged, said OK, and that would have been the end of it, rather than the discussion you are now seeing.
Do you understand the difference between the news forum and the chat forum?
All of the above could be posted on fr.
Just not in the news forum.
Do you get it yet?
Good of you to admit it because you seemed to imply that I did.
Because it belongs in chat. Not the news forum.
Really???
That's "news" to me and a whole lot of others here, and apparently "news" to you as well since you listed under the Topic of "Local News".
A question.
I understand that you are saying this should be in General Interest Chat. Is there
any link to what is defined as News that would qualify for the News Forum?
Example: Gov’t, Politics, President, Congress, Constitution, War, Military, etc.?
I know the Forums are listed as:
Bloggers & Personal
General Interest Chat
GOP Club
News/Activism
Religion
RLC Caucus
Smoky Backroom
VetsCoR
Thanks
I see you still don’t get it.
As long as I’ve been here I’m sure I’ve seen that thread but the thing I find
is my forgetter keeps getting better. A suggestion, maybe it should be linked
somewhere on the website page where the forums, etc. are listed. Maybe it is
and I don’t see it.
Thanks for the info.
Suggesting that legitimate news articles, from legitimate news sources not hiding behind paywalls should be consigned to the “chat” forum is bizarre to say the least. One of the original constructs of Free Republic was to encourage the posting of news articles so that conservative discussion among fellow conservatives could follow. Vanities were discouraged and childish antics almost unheard of.
I think that Admin Moderator has gotten a little too close to his admiring zot patrols and thinks that news is interfering with all of the great fun and should be consigned to the outer darkness.
From now on, only the New York Times, The Boston Globe, the LA Times, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution should be cited, you know, real news organizations. That will certainly take care of any real discussion of news and we can transform into a silly inane remarks forum.
Back to your original statement...
The Daily Mail is NOT crap. It is a CONSERVATIVE newspaper. What the hell?
Please remove your original statement.
took me awhile to find it too..
had to search using keyword: adminlectureseries
Jamie “ Romantic”???? That’s a LAST NAME?????? OMG!
bookmark for me because i’m almost always confused ;)
The UK Mail is America’s BEST newspaper...
I posted a DM article yesterday. I like their NEWS articles. They have articles the LEFT ARM of the DEM/White House media won’t print. Their celebrity section I avoid like the plague. Every day, multiple gossip about the: Kardashians, Katie Holmes, ....
The Daily Mail’s articles are generally hard hitting and well researched and often quoted as a source by papers stateside.
And when a story makes the Daily Mail it goes international. It is no longer just a local interest chat story.
Remember the greatest idiots of all time who found they had 10 1933 St Gaudens double eagles and sent them ALL into the Treasury to ask if they were real?
America is truly creating a bumper crop of dumbasses these days...
Let me get this straight.
If a story is posted at AP, WP, NYT, LAT, CBS, NBC, ABC, or one of those rags, then it is a legitimate news story and if the same story is posted in the Daily Mail, then it is not considered a legitimate news story and must be relegated to the chat room?
If this is the Official Position of Free Republic, then this is stupid. The Daily Mail does not ignore all the Obama scandals and AFAIK, it is one of the only major newspapers on the planet that has dutifully reported on all the Obama scandals and is one of the few places on the planet where we can actually get some legitimate unbiased news reporting.
If I read you correctly, then the Washington Post and the New York Times are legitimate news sources and anyone that prints stories that are critical of Obama are tabloids.
Is this forum FREE REPUBLIC or Democrat Underground?
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