Comments on: Is the Daily Mail threatened by social media?

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:43:24 +0000

There’s another way of looking at this,

Daily Mail is one of the most popular sites of social voting sites like digg etc. content about social sites tends to do well on social sites…

Not entirely surprising they are covering topics like this…

By: Why I’m Glad the Daily Mail Hates Social Media « Clive Andrews

Why I’m Glad the Daily Mail Hates Social Media « Clive Andrews — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:53:06 +0000

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By: Matt Hill

Matt Hill — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:52:39 +0000

“The Mail is widely held as the media outlet most feared by public and political decision makers in the UK”

Swap “feared” with “derided” and you have a much more accurate statement. Well, on my side of the fence, at least.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:40:18 +0000

…and this is their reaction to parody: http://probablynotthedailymail.blogspot.com/

The only problem with them smartening up to the whole issue of social networking is that it would give them yet another platform to peddle their nasty political agenda and lazy journalism. IMHO :-)

By: Robin Grant (Managing Director, We Are Social)

Robin Grant (Managing Director, We Are Social) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:27:30 +0000

I think you should get Mr McInnes to apply for the role. Seriously…

By: Roger, Online PR Agency C&M

Roger, Online PR Agency C&M — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:15:43 +0000

Great post Murray. Bravo. the ‘What a Bunch of Twitterers’ is just idiotic and irresponsible. Get your asses down there and straighten them out.

I think there’s another concern here. The news agenda is moving to Social Media bashing…. having swung from @wossy / Twitter is great. There will be more to come…

By: Leif Kendall

Leif Kendall — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:12:45 +0000

I think the Daily Mail are happy to attack social media because it’s a threat to their business. It’s not news, it’s business strategy.

The Daily Mail’s daft barks are a desperate death-rattle from a media dinosaur. Rather than embracing modern technology, and trying to advance serious journalism in exciting new ways, they attack.

The Daily Mail is a hideous institution and it is depressing that so many people read it. It’s full of fearful nonsense. Broken Britain? MMR? Now social media is the big evil.

Perhaps digital media should bite back, and attempt to show Daily Mail readers how awful their news-source really is…?

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:06:50 +0000

I think two things explain it…

1) The Daily Mail has (along with many baby boomers) a fear of strangers. Social media with its inherant trust of people (until proven otherwise) goes against this. It says that not everyone you don’t know is a mad axemen and most people are reasonable

2) The Daily Mail is conservative and therefore untrusting of anything new. The disdain will be followed by acceptance in the long run – like the fact that they finally got a website after running KILLER INTERNET stories for years.

What I find interesting when you look at the Mail site is how reasonable often the comments on stories are. They have a DIgg like system and often the more liberal, less hysterical responses are the most approved – in stark contrast to the nutjobs who’ve overtaken much of the debate on the BBC’s Have Your Say area.