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I should add for clarity (I'm near totally snowed under and posted quickly), the"minute by minute" of the sub header and the fact you had to be a subsciber to read about the "minute by minute" death of someone drowning gave me second hand/transferred grubbiness NGL.
Somebodys daughter, mother etc

The sad facts of the story and failings of the emergency services are universally known at this stage anyhow aren't they?

I was probs over reacting but it seemed a weird/odd choice for a "premium" story.

At least they seemed to have calmed down a bit with victims house prices though.
 
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Credit where it's due the headline "Look mum, no friends" about the UK Eurovision entry just raised a mild LOL.
 
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What criteria does the Mail use when putting articles under pay walls? I've been trying to work it out.
I understand it for opinion columns written by someone like Boris Johnson as they've got to pay him a whack or he wouldn't bother writing for them. They also seem to do it for random health articles but also some articles which I would consider general news stories.
 
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What criteria does the Mail use when putting articles under pay walls? I've been trying to work it out.
I understand it for opinion columns written by someone like Boris Johnson as they've got to pay him a whack or he wouldn't bother writing for them. They also seem to do it for random health articles but also some articles which I would consider general news stories.
They seem to do it for scare stories about health, ‘this was the one common symptom I ignored which meant I had terminal cancer’ and also their ‘this one common ingredient in most people’s cupboards could help prevent X disease’
Also follow up stories to main ones about celebrities, like today’s article about Tess Daly seething about the divorce, despite the fact they have a non paid for article showing her and Vernon out at the weekend together.
 
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Is it me or are Fail's headlines so convoluted and unreadable these days? I often have to read a headline multipile times and sometimes I still don't quite grasp what they are trying to say.
 
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Is it me or are Fail's headlines so convoluted and unreadable these days? I often have to read a headline multipile times and sometimes I still don't quite grasp what they are trying to say.
It's not just you. They don't seem to employ proof readers in this day and age.
 
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Yes, and the headline is duplicated as the top photo caption.
Then repeated again as the first paragraph of the article.
Absolute morons.
 
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It's not just you. They don't seem to employ proof readers in this day and age.
Its not just the Mail as clickbait headlines are everywhere. It's really annoying when the content of an artilcle tells you nothing and doesnt deliver what was promised. Mainstream journalism is dying out, less staff and AI written content.
 
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Comments disabled on a random article about Taylor Swift's wedding requests. I haven't read it but how weird, this is happening more and more too. Totally random "harmless" articles not allowing comments from the off. What is this?
 
Alexandra Shulman stock piling tins of Mutti tomatoes raised a smile.
I can't recall a columnist ever being as inane.
Hopefully she'll give regular updates on how her "digging for victory" veg garden is coming along.

I'd still like to read an in depth piece from Samantha Brick on staying beautiful in times of crisis though.

A geopolitical update from Baba Vanga would be ideal right now too given the ongoing situation.
 
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Alexandra Shulman stock piling tins of Mutti tomatoes raised a smile.
I can't recall a columnist ever being as inane.
Hopefully she'll give regular updates on how her "digging for victory" veg garden is coming along.

I'd still like to read an in depth piece from Samantha Brick on staying beautiful in times of crisis though.

A geopolitical update from Baba Vanga would be ideal right now too given the ongoing situation.
Is she friends with guest?
 
The DM's fascination with a 16 yrs old getting married is a bit creepy. Already they're hinting at strife and tensions. Who cares about a Venezuela Fury getting married? It's nothing to celebrate IMO.
 
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The DM's fascination with a 16 yrs old getting married is a bit creepy. Already they're hinting at strife and tensions. Who cares about a Venezuela Fury getting married? It's nothing to celebrate IMO.
You'd think there had never been any wedding before in human history the way they are reporting on this one. It's stomach churning.
 
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The DM's fascination with a 16 yrs old getting married is a bit creepy. Already they're hinting at strife and tensions. Who cares about a Venezuela Fury getting married? It's nothing to celebrate IMO.
I'm baffled by it too. She's hardly Taylor Swift is she? This girl is the unknown grandchild of someone famous so nobody needs to know about this at all and nobody outside of her family cares. How much are the Mail paying them for all this rubbish?
My only take on this is that Venezuela is a ridiculous name!
 
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