Ask me how.
Here, for the great unwashed, is the story referred to in the link:
Film examines Daily Mail ‘diet’
Tara Conlan
Monday August 20, 2007
The GuardianIn the footsteps of Supersize Me, a documentary-maker has attempted to find out whether we are what we read by giving up all news sources except the Daily Mail.For 28 days, Nick Angel screened out all television, radio, print and online news sources except for the middle market tabloid.
The film, which will air on the former US vice-president Al Gore’s digital channel, Current TV, on Wednesday, shows the self-confessed London media liberal Mr Angel as his regulated news diet begins to take its toll.
He begins the documentary with the belief that the Mail’s main purpose is to “terrify its readers” and make the world seem like a more menacing place.
Mr Angel said: “It’s important to know what the Mail thinks, because it’s a lightning rod (or so it claims) to ‘Middle England’ - that ill-defined and slightly scary mass of people whose various incarnations include the ‘Moral Majority’ and ‘All Right Thinking People’.
The film also features an interview with former high profile Daily Mail features editor-turned-artist Jane Kelly as well as a lifelong Daily Mail reader.
The Daily Mail Diet will air on Current TV on Wednesday August 22 at 9.15pm
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ONE OF US, ONE OF US
It wants me to register. I say hell no. It says NO CONTENT FOR YOU, BEEYATCH.
Ah well. There’s always icepick lobotomies.
Reminds me of Charlie Brooker’s Daily Mail Island.
“You can have a mind like David Duff…”
Oh no you can’t! ‘Tis a thing of rare quality, all-knowing, all-seeing, wise, humorous, stern but always prepared to forgive the ignorant - unless, of course, their intials are JB!
i feel sorry for the poor man
Your sympathies are returned, sir, because galloping idleness is a crippling ailment, as exemplified in your sentence above in which the lower case ‘i’ might be a typo upon which we can all come a cropper from time to time, but the failure to end stop is just good, old-fashioned laziness. I see, sir, that you taught social ’sciences’ at university. Quite so! Need I say more? Not really, except to extend my sympathies to your former students who must now bear an extra burden on their long journey through this vale of tears.
I do not accept the premiss.
david i had literally no idea who you were till i looked at your comment. i just read the content of the post and didn’t pay too much attention to the title.
you appear to have done the opposite.
Good God, Michael, you don’t actually expect me to read Brisso’s tedious rubbish in full do you? Have a heart!
Hey, dude, you still alive?
One can but hope!
David Duff wishing fellow blogger dead, duly noted.
You’ve just reminded me why I gave up blogging.
Defending the old scrote doesn’t come easily, but isn’t Duffers hoping that John is still alive? Anyway, nil desperandum David, judging by John’s frequently update Tumblr blog, he hasn’t joined the choir invisibule just yet.
Curses! Unmasked by gorilla pecatus
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