Hate Mail (part 2)
The Daily Mail peddles a despicable cocktail of hatred, bigotry and fear.
We’re delighted to learn that concerned citizens have knocked up a spoof.
It’s called - somewhat inevitably - the Hate Mail [PDF], and 30,000 copies are being distributed nationwide.
Middle England’s house paper is guilty of many crimes, not least supporting fascism in the 30s.
British fascist leader Oswald Mosley was praised beneath the headline Hurrah for the Blackshirts
The paper’s proprietor Lord Rothermere also wrote to congratulate Hitler months before the outbreak of war with Germany.
The rag continues to offer a daily diet of spite today, with immigrants bearing the brunt.
An anonymous ex-employee sums the paper up perfectly:
“The ideal Daily Mail story leaves the reader hating somebody or something”
May 4th, 2005 at 1:30 am
Readers may also wish to seek out Charlie Brooker’s excellent book TV Go Home, a collection of spoof television listings which introduce us to the trials and tribulations of the inhabitants of Daily Mail Island, the reality show where previously sane individuals morph into angry, ranting fuckcocks after a short spell being forcefed a diet of bile from Dacre’s rag.
May 4th, 2005 at 8:16 pm
Your anti Daily Mail rants might be a little more believable if you’d shown yourselves to be a little more grown up than you have done by calling your site Tory Scum. I can’t imagine this shocks or offends anyone, on the contrary, it gives the impression of a site run by idealistic, young student types who’ve seen little of the world except what they’ve been shown by school or their middle-class mummy and daddy.
October 29th, 2005 at 9:38 pm
problem is tony. your probobly “midle classed” and you probobly do what your “mummy and daddy” told…so take a joke and shut up. there are some of us the party who are here to make the lives of thoose les fortionate better! and if your only here to make a point about class then dont waiste your times, ill take anyone from any class with any background…..maybe thats why i do better in life
“the birds are flying”
January 14th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
LOL @ this. I am not paticuarly “for” any political party but I’d describe myself as further to the right than to the left. However the Mail is often totally OTT and I loved this parody of it.
March 29th, 2006 at 10:55 am
yes…i often find that after reading the daily mail i end up hating someone or something…normally the victim of my hatred seems to be the daily mail …anyone who writes for it and anyone who happens to be reading it at the time