Hull Daily Mail

As an East Yorkshire native who lives in the HDM's catchment area I'm pleased to see that El Reg didn't make the mistake of calling HDM a newspaper, everyone who lives locally know's the HDM's only function is to provide disemination for Blunderside Police and the outer wrapping for fish and chips.

Ha ha

The Mail is getting absoloutely slated on their own website....especially as they run ads for escort services and premium rate chat lines....

People in Galss houses and all that..

guy earn's a few quid for coding porno sites

I of course would never look at porn or anything associated with porn.... just like the other 20% of the people on the hinterweb that manage a whole day with out typing ' mature housewives dressed as traffic wardens'

Of course if they wanted to out somebody they could look at their London namesake that never pays any UK tax on their profits... or their Boss Dirty Desmond!

£250 for a design??

That is cheap. I hope none of my clients see that. They'll want a refund.

For the £250 he wanted from the escort he could have had 'O' (with CIM) and then 'A' levels. Maybe he should have done some sort of market research and then done some bartering.

nice work if you can get it

> the question is just what purpose does its exemplary investigative journalism serve?

that should be fucking obvious. a hack on the local rag was able to spend a couple of days in the office looking at porn *and got paid for it*.

is the paper hiring? free smut on company time should attract a good pool of applicants.

paris icon because she's yet to feature on hull's porn sites.

Man Doesnt Break Law Shock!!

Really, do the the reporters at Hull Daily Mail have nothing better to do?

The guy makes a legitimate living, pays his taxes (presumably) for doing something legal and they're complaining? Fair enough they're porn sites but he's only designing the website, not filming the content for goodness sake. Even the HDM states that the activites are legal.

And, as posted on the HDM website, the paper itself has numerous adds for escorts, brothels and more 'spicy' viewing material. All of which could be accesible by anyone willing to pay the 40p or whatever it is to buy a copy of the paper. Even those under 18. Maybe we should compain the the Press Complaints Commission that they're making porn and sex available to minors?

If I was this guy Id be seriously considering legal action against the paper.

Shocked

Talk about a "hit piece". I am stunned that a newspaper would stoop this low, well maybe not that stunned. Hurry up and die newspapers, seriously, die please.

Wow...

... the people of Hull must be feeling *so* happy that they have got a newspaper like this selflessly defending them from perversion!

(The fact that their Classified Ads section contains ads from Escort Agencies is an irrelevant detail, of course...)

Classified

Quite funny coming from a "newspaper"/"website" with a escort section in is classified ads pages (would have passed the link but the link is extremely long, and I don't really want to generate them any traffic)

Oooo, what to write for a title. Nope, can't think of a thing.

Heh, despite promising to remove offensive messages, this early one still remains:

"Paul knocked up a couple of site for me - some travel sites, tours of Bangkok and the region, that sort of thing.

Paul Gadd, Not tellin yer "

Given their floor-scrapingly low tolerance level for 'offensive' surely that would qualify with bells on.

They're slagging El Reg off in the comments!

"Interesting that a real news media site the register has picked up on the amatuer HDM lol" says one well-informed commentard! Real? News? When?

Hoorah

Great reaction on the HDM comments to that sorry mess masquerading as a news article, restores my faith in humanity.

Lawsuits...

Am I the only one who smells litigation in the air?

If I were him,

I'd be looking at my legal options. This is absolutely shocking use of 'journalism'

And yes, I think i'm going to ring that number and complain. I think we all should.

Ban this filth!

Well, unless we're making money from it.

The publisher of the Hull Daily Mail is, or certainly was until recently, more than happy to take adverts from Escorts and other forms of "adult entertainment". So I'm guessing they're just trying to protect their revenue by stopping escorts from being able to advertise their services in anything that they don't control and profit from.

No one should make money from this filth!

Unless it's us.....

The Hull Daily Mail's publishing company certainly used to take adverts from escorts and all sorts of other adult services such as swinger's clubs.

So I guess they're just trying to protect their revenues by stopping escorts spending their advertising budget with anyone but them.

SHOCK...

BTW, has anyone noticed that the Hull milkmen are deliverying milk to the same strumpets in question at their OWN HOMES, and then DELIVERING MILK TO SCHOOLS!!!! Even with the very same trucks, and without having returned home, burned their clothes, and showering!

My god, does no one realise that those strumpets have koodies, germs, ticks, and fleas? Those milkmen might have even seen them IN THEIR ROBES!!!

And who knows what happens to the vegetables on the truck when Acado deliver groceries to those same strumpets...shudder.

Please, we need proper investigative journalism to prevent this from becoming something that threatens the very moral fiber of our children...please, hurry...

"images of women dressed as schoolgirls being spanked".

That's the next Playmobil reconstruction sorted.

Say no more! SAY NO MORE!

Probably has a swedish wife, too (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

I will have to inspect these stern schoolgirl correctional facility sites to make up my own mind though.

Outrage!

I always knew that he was a prognosticator and a procrastinator! And that he came from a family of THESPIANS!!!1!!1!!!11

Please excuse me for a few moments while I write a strongly worded letter to the authorities.

-ss

And the smut sites are offensive because...

I have to assume there is some non-smut reason for all the outrage. Perhaps the web sites are offensive in some remotely relevant way.... Do they use tables for layout? Do they fail to validate as valid HTML? I just don't get it.

WTF

I've just found this on the bottom of another article

"However, there is nothing to suggest any of the websites are illegal.

Illegal pornographic websites include those where children are involved."

I mean just WTF are they on?!

Kiddie fiddling

Worse still in one of the many articles (3 on the same "story"??) it tries to imply association with kiddie fiddling:

"However, there is nothing to suggest any of the websites are illegal. Illegal pornographic websites include those where children are involved."

Registered my complaint. Presumably they only do something about it if Paul does also.

"moist schoolgirls" ???

Thank goodness for him that he doesn't write for el Reg, eh!

Or, maybe he does? Mr. Smith, are you here?

When I become king...

... The Daily Mail and all subsidiaries will be required to have a large (at least quarter page) box on both front and back pages stating in large red font :

"The Daily Mail repeatedly published stories in support of Nazi Germany and fascist organisations at home and abroad. It has repeatedly been accused of racism and homophobia as well as prosecuted for libellous falsehoods on numerous occasions.

This is a free country and you are perfectly entitled to get your news from whatever source you choose, just be aware that by purchasing this you are saying that your preferred choice is to be lied to by bigoted Nazis."

Don't contact the Press Council

The Hull Daily Mail clearly states the procedure should you be unhappy with this (or any other) article in their 'newspaper' at http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/presscomplaints.html

Step 1. Contact the editor

Step 2. If you are not satisfied with the editor's response, THEN contact the Press Council.

Following the HDM's procedure unfortunately inconveniences them, but there is a proper way of doing things.

At least someone is making sense

I was particularly impressed by Councillor Kerri Harold, who shunned tradition by responding with some degree of common sense: "I understand he is not doing anything illegal. My personal view is I have no problem with it, but I don't know what residents think because I have not consulted them about this."

A rare display of decency from a politician - no doubt she will be summarily removed from her position for displaying such an outrageous stance.