Wednesday, June 23, 2010

How I hate the Daily Mail

It's been fun watching the Daily Mail getting itself into a fankle over the new coalition government. It was so easy for them before - being able to go after the Labour government on any and every issue. Now they don't know which way to turn - and for a serial Daily Mail hater this can only be good news. I look at it from time to time online, purely to see what outrageous new campaigns they're involved in. And every time I come away thinking how can they be so two-faced? They're supposed to be a paper favoured by women but they are so very anti women. Every woman featured is either to fat or too thin - see the story on Ulrika Jonsson today: (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1288670/Ulrika-Jonsson-looks-shadow-self-moves-home.html

showing too much leg or not enough, frumpy or over glamorous. Someone who they once judged fat only has to lose a little weight and suddenly she's a cause for concern. And most women are only in the newspaper because of how they look or what they wear. What I don't understand is why women don't revolt and simply give the newspaper a wide berth until it stops being lookist, ageist
and sexist.