Posted on 01/30/2012 6:46:10 AM PST by C19fan
he Mail Online has overtaken the New York Times website as the most visited newspaper site on the web, according to figures from tracking firm comScore.
Data suggests the UK's Daily Mail had 45.35 million unique visitors during December, inching the site ahead of the New York Times with 44.8 million.
But a spokeswoman for the US paper suggested the Mail won by including visitors to a sister site.
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1: British girls are pretty. ;) 2: Daily Mail loves to take "important" people and knock them down. 3: They have some excellent writers including Peter Hitchens, AN Wilson, and John Keegan. 4: They report stuff on US politicians, especially D's, that the lapdog MSM would not touch.
“In any case, a quick review of our site versus the Daily Mail should indicate quite clearly that they are not in our competitive set,” she added.
Arrogant female dog.
Another thing I like about the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming—Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html
The “elites” have always looked down on the Daily Mail from the beginning. Back in Victorian times, it was looked down as the paper the “clerks” read.
No surprise though I’m sure the Slimes will sniff at this and declare DM not to be in their rarified sphere...
I, too, read DM daily - some of their stuff is questionable - but pretty interesting, especially historic info that comes to light. The sports stuff helps when the World Cup looms, too.
I like it too.
Some very good investigative reporting.
Although, a little trashy on the sidebar and they love to highlight violent crime in America on the front page.
It’s a bizarre cross between high and low and I have moved to reading it often. They do a fairly good job covering current events (see the stuff on the Costa Concordia) and I love headlines like “Oh Kate, is that something a princess should wear?”
They’ve also got some editor that’s really into photography, whether historical or artistic. Today is a look at the NY Subway system. These collections have been a really interesting “features” article.
The Mail is great for fluff (and pictures of starlets in bikinis, can’t forget that). For hard news, eh, not so much. I remember years ago when a Spanair MD-80 crashed on takeoff in Spain and killed almost everyone onboard, the Mail breathlessly posted pictures “proving” that the airplane had an engine fire on takeoff. Turns out the pictures were of a different Spanair aircraft, and the “fire” was normal exhaust from the engines on an MD-80 at takeoff power. The accident was actually caused by the pilots not setting the flaps for takeoff.
A pilot or professional in the airline industry could’ve caught that error in about three seconds but they didn’t bother, they just ran with it. Ever since, I take anything I read there with the same level of skepticism that I do for anything in the American MFM.
They do, however, go after our politicians a lot harder than our own media does, I’ll give them that much.
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Agreed. Some of their correspondents are not just wrong, but actively libelous under UK law (case in point: they really screwed up over some nauseating Palin-hate they published about six months back).
But yes, they do point and laugh at politicians. In a world like ours that’s become a rarity.
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