Yet another reason to detest the Daily Mail ...

Dgh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -down.html

... to summarise, bitch's mother gets run over by an irresponsible cyclist. That's bad. Bitch uses this to bellyache about cyclists in general. That's bad too.

If that's their attitude, British Cycling's stars should boycott this odious publication.

spen666

Dgh wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1250746/Beware-rogue-bicycles--Petronella-Wyatt-attacks-cult-cycling-frail-mother-knocked-down.html

... to summarise, *****'s mother gets run over by an irresponsible cyclist. That's bad. ***** uses this to bellyache about cyclists in general. That's bad too.

If that's their attitude, British Cycling's stars should boycott this odious publication.

Alternatively you could have posted in the thread about this story

Detesting a paper because of one person's article is like disliking all scousers cos Stan Boardman's accent is crap

Jay dubbleU

Typical Daily Wail - one incident and all cyclists are tarred with the same brush

Dgh

Spen 666 - I don't detest the Daily Mail because of this one article. Note the title, "...another"

I note that you haven't defended the article. The Daily Mail has chosen to publish the article, which isn't a news story at all, it's one daft woman generalising about one instance of admittedly poor behaviour by one cyclist.

Would even the Daily Mail publish this piece if, instead of generalising about cyclists, she did so about black people? No.

spen666

Dgh wrote:

Spen 666 - I don't detest the Daily Mail because of this one article. Note the title, "...another"

I note that you haven't defended the article. The Daily Mail has chosen to publish the article, which isn't a news story at all, it's one daft woman generalising about one instance of admittedly poor behaviour by one cyclist.

Would even the Daily Mail publish this piece if, instead of generalising about cyclists, she did so about black people? No.

did I say it was wrong to hate scousers cos of Stan Boardman?

Eau Rouge

Dgh wrote:

I don't detest the Daily Mail because of this one article. Note the title, "...another"

I note that you haven't defended the article. The Daily Mail has chosen to publish the article, which isn't a news story at all, it's one daft woman generalising about one instance of admittedly poor behaviour by one cyclist.

Would even the Daily Mail publish this piece if, instead of generalising about cyclists, she did so about black people? No.

or car drivers.

spen666

Dgh wrote:

....I note that you haven't defended the article. The Daily Mail has chosen to publish the article, which isn't a news story at all, it's one daft woman generalising about one instance of admittedly poor behaviour by one cyclist......

It wasn't printed as a news storyu- it was printed in the column of one of its columinsts

Dgh

Spen666 - I know it wasn't published as a news story. If it were a news story, it would not necessarily suggest that the paper had an anti-cycling editorial line. But publishing it as an opinion piece indicates that the paper is happy to be seen as anti-cycling.

Of course the Daily Mail is free to publish anti-cycling nonsense if it so wishes, and we cyclists are equally free to loathe it as ever right-minded person does.

spen666

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spen666

Dgh wrote:

Spen666 - I know it wasn't published as a news story. If it were a news story, it would not necessarily suggest that the paper had an anti-cycling editorial line. But publishing it as an opinion piece indicates that the paper is happy to be seen as anti-cycling.

Of course the Daily Mail is free to publish anti-cycling nonsense if it so wishes, and we cyclists are equally free to loathe it as ever right-minded person does.

no, the paper publishes lots of articles by their columnists. One anti cycling article by one writer does not mean that the paper is anti cycling

Any more than one drunken welsh rugby player towoc ing a golf buggy means all welsh rugby players are vehicler thieves

Agent57

The story annoyed me, too. So much so, I blogged about it.

Dgh

Agent 57 - your blog on it seems spot-on to me.

Soul Boy

MadameMarie came up with this link in the Cake stop thread

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 391143.ece

Maybe just a rouse to have a rant at an ex lover

OldSkoolKona

Soul Boy wrote:

MadameMarie came up with this link in the Cake stop thread

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 391143.ece

Maybe just a rouse to have a rant at an ex lover

Ah, very good!

I still go with the theory that its a rouse by the Daily Fail to get lots of hits on its site from annoyed cyclists so that they can increase advertising revenue.

merkin

As I wobbled along London's roads, nearly hitting every pedestrian and car, riding the wrong way up one-way streets, I was petrified and hysterical, screaming every curse I knew, including one particularly nasty one learned from my Hungarian grandmother.

After three days, disgusted with myself and unwilling to commit manslaughter, I rode on to the kerb - deliberately, of course - and fell down. I hailed a taxi and put my bike in it, to the annoyance of the driver. 'Take me home,' I bleated to the driver. I have never cycled since.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z0fd32ygmu

Yep. That sort of riding winds me up too. :roll:

Jay dubbleU

merkin wrote:

As I wobbled along London's roads, nearly hitting every pedestrian and car, riding the wrong way up one-way streets, I was petrified and hysterical, screaming every curse I knew, including one particularly nasty one learned from my Hungarian grandmother.

After three days, disgusted with myself and unwilling to commit manslaughter, I rode on to the kerb - deliberately, of course - and fell down. I hailed a taxi and put my bike in it, to the annoyance of the driver. 'Take me home,' I bleated to the driver. I have never cycled since.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z0fd32ygmu

Yep. That sort of riding winds me up too. :roll:

So basically she couldn't hack it as a cyclist and is having a dig at her ex :roll:

Porgy

More anti-cycling articles from Daily Mail - case closed.

Why I Really Hate Cyclists
http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/misc/dailymail.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214105/Cyclists-given-green-light-travel-wrong-way-way-streets-new-pilot.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226245/Theres-stopping-lycra-lout-cyclists-prosecutions-running-red-lights-plummets.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1211917/JAMES-MARTIN-The-Tesla-Roadster-electric-supercar-thats-fast-Ferrari.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231835/Generation-cycling-iPod-zombies-blamed-rise-deaths-road.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1250746/Beware-rogue-bicycles--Petronella-Wyatt-attacks-cult-cycling-frail-mother-knocked-down.html

that's just one page of a Google search - I googled Daily Mail Cycling and did not filter out positive stories. There were none.

lost_in_thought

It's about as much use as a newspaper as Heat magazine, or housewife's favourite Take a Break...

Don't read it! Simples!

I do wonder if these controversial articles are just to bump viewings/sales...

Porgy

lost_in_thought wrote:

It's about as much use as a newspaper as Heat magazine, or housewife's favourite Take a Break...

Don't read it! Simples!

I do wonder if these controversial articles are just to bump viewings/sales...

It's not reading it that's the problem - it's knowing a significant portion of nitwits in their cars have read it and are now wound up - read to take it out on the first cyclist who gets in their way.

lost_in_thought

Porgy wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

It's about as much use as a newspaper as Heat magazine, or housewife's favourite Take a Break...

Don't read it! Simples!

I do wonder if these controversial articles are just to bump viewings/sales...

It's not reading it that's the problem - it's knowing a significant portion of nitwits in their cars have read it and are now wound up - read to take it out on the first cyclist who gets in their way.

Alas, there will always be idiots. No point getting worked up about them!

Porgy

lost_in_thought wrote:

Porgy wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

It's about as much use as a newspaper as Heat magazine, or housewife's favourite Take a Break...

Don't read it! Simples!

I do wonder if these controversial articles are just to bump viewings/sales...

It's not reading it that's the problem - it's knowing a significant portion of nitwits in their cars have read it and are now wound up - read to take it out on the first cyclist who gets in their way.

Alas, there will always be idiots. No point getting worked up about them!

I'm not worked up - I think "concerned" is the correct word. But I take it all in my stride, as one does.

plowmar

'Would even the Daily Mail publish this piece if, instead of generalising about cyclists, she did so about black people? No.'

Oh I don't know, what about their knickers in a twist reporting about immigrants? Yes I know that not all immigrants are 'black' but it is done at a fleas todger away from outright racism.

downfader

I know some have said "dont let it bother you" on here, but frankly we should. They still have a big ol readership here in the UK and run several campaigns a year on crime etc.

TRL figures have also been misquoted in that article.

rolf_f

Are we next going to have a thread about how PC Denis the Menace has become? You shouldn't take comics seriously - that's the whole point! Besides, I think if you read the article carefully, you can see that it is actually a very clever pro cycling piece. Very clever irony and use of nonsense arguments.

prj45

Dgh wrote:

Would even the Daily Mail publish this piece if, instead of generalising about cyclists, she did so about black people? No.

It can't get away with doing this anymore, it needs a fulcrum for its hate, so it's picking on cyclists these days (and travellers, and teenagers, and single mothers).