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UK Tabloid Known For Publishing Naked Photos Complains About The Harm Of Porn Online
from the that's-what-we-call-hypocrisy dept
Martin Robbins, over at the Guardian does a pitch perfect satire in response, mocking The Daily Mail's article. Here's just a snippet:
Of course, even more amusing is that Robbins goes on to point out that The Daily Mail's moral panic against porn might take on slightly more credibility if the publication wasn't well known for publishing nude photos itself (the links in the next paragraph may be slightly NSFW depending on your work environment):As an infant, I was exposed to breasts almost every single day. Thirty years later, breasts have taken over my life. Not a day goes by without some stray breast seeping into my consciousness. Occasionally I catch myself glancing at the breasts of my female friends, and I habitually pour milk all over my cornflakes. Worse, breasts have served as a gateway drug for vaginas.
I used to think I was alone, but extensive new research in the form of almost three anecdotes published by the Daily Mail - a seedy gossip website specializing in celebrity erotica, catering to men too old to buy Nuts and too married to run up hard-to-explain credit card charges on proper porn - has revealed the devastating impact that breasts have been having on other young children.
Each tragic case of boob trauma follows the same remarkable pattern. An ordinary little boy approaching his teenage years suddenly starts to change his behaviour: becoming withdrawn and moody and mysteriously growing about six inches in height. Detailed investigation of the child's browser history reveals that the cause is not the rough patch the parents have been going through, a recent change of schools, or puberty; but an addiction to online porn.
The Daily Mail makes money from posting pictures of scantily-clad women on the internet. Sometimes these women are topless. Sometimes they are completely naked. Often the images are captioned with breathy descriptions of 'cleavage', 'dangerous curves', 'thigh-skimming' dresses. Sometimes the images are of disturbingly young girls, accompanied with phrases like the infamous "all grown up."It's only worth a moral panic if it's not about the publication in question making money, it seems. I recognize that the UK tabloid culture involves moral panic articles like the Daily Mail's all too often, but you have to wonder how anyone takes such things seriously when those same publications are publishing naked photos online itself.
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Why, yes it is!
Rule of thumb as ever: if it's in the Daily Fail, it's either a half-assed attempt at riling up the middle classes, or an outright lie.
Sadly, these attempts occasionally bear fruit (their ridiculous video nasties campaign, for example), so it's worth being vigilant even if the hypocrisy is particularly obvious - their readership does have low comprehension and critical thinking skills.
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I was given a copy for free last week when I bought a drink in the newsagent and I didnt know whether to feel grateful or insulted.
In the end it was an entirely depressing experience skim reading it on the bus.
I can't imagine what goes on in the minds of people who read it regularly / write it
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Trouble is that it was also recently claimed to be the online paper with the highest readership in the world.
I know people who read it in a "know your enemy" kind of way but there are still many who read it and believe it.
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Boobs - your mother has them!
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Next up dieting tips and is your house losing value.
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The Headline
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Daily Mail: "Competition Is Bad. Make It Stop"
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Scroll down to the Daily Mail section.
Suffice to say, I read it just to laugh at it.
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"The Mail is very similar to The Sun when at its worst, but likes to pretend it's more upmarket."
That sounds about right, TBH...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg
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You must define units so that they can become a standard.
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Trevor White, comedian.
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Rule 34 wins again.
This is the same rule that brought us Amputee Toilet Seat Handjob porn(Really, do not search for that. It was on a Rule 34 Demotivational Poster). Do you really think there are limits?
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What I Believe
2. If someone wants to watch Porn, it is none of my or the governments business.
3. Nude or Naked is in no way the equivalent of Porn. (i.e. The Picture of Madonna linked & Venus di Milo classy. "Debbie gets creamed" not so much).
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The Mail is generally bad - but not always - even the Mail took up the cudgels for Richard O'Dwyer.
There was a big headline on the physical paper too!
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When you start with such a serious lack of understanding, you pretty much are doomed to fail. Sounds like a Tea Party talking points problem.
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I feel obligated to post this....
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Classic Daily Mail
Oooo how appropriate - just clicked the link to test it and got; "COULD TEENAGE SEX RUIN THE MEMORY OF DIANA?"
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There is a huge gap between FHM sexy and Vivid hardcore. Only a conservative with his panties in a knot would be in too much of a hurry to know the difference.
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Pretty accurate, perhaps the ultimate Mail headline if it has somehow snuck immigrants in there...
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Any difference between titillation and porn is;
a/ In the eye of the beholder
b/ Irrelevant to any harm that "porn" may or may not do to a teenager and
c/ In no way removes the irony or indeed inevitability of it being the Daily Mail printing such a thing.
I do, however, find it unsuprising that you'd come out with such a rant since you are almost Techdirts own resident Daily Mail.
Oh, and if you show such a serious lack of understanding of teenagers in the relevance of "titillation vs. porn" in such an argument then either
a/ You are way too long away from being a teenager or
b/ On behalf of any putative offspring please don't become a parent.
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http://www.theonion.com/
If you're going to have a delusional family member, might as well have some fun with them.
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True to Form
Actually The Mail is acting true to form here. It's always been the right wing, conservative tabloid. The tabloid for the stuffy, old fashioned reader.
It is hypocritical, and also one of the worst newspapers in the UK, but I'm not at all surprised to see them mount an attack against porn. It's totally in keeping with the paper's long history.
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The sound of the whole thing going right past you at high speed, and you not getting any of it.
I guess in your world, Fox News is porn too, right?
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It's hard to take a moral stand when your own site clearly depends on broadcasting salacious images, even if they manage to keep some clothes on much of the time...
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I would say that more than soft porn, the Daily Mail is known for it's hatred of immigrants - so handing it to potential immigrants is pretty funny :)
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I also love how every other paper can be covering a serious story of national or international significance, but they care more about how 'women on Royal Navy ships distract the men with their wicked wiles'.
About the only good thing that can be said about them is that they *aren't* a Murdoch rag.
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