The similarities...
in the website design, i.e. a visual assault on the eye and ad content by the bucketload, would make this an obvious merger. Having said that, the DM is easier on the eye than the Guardian's redesign last year.
The Daily Mail Group Trust (DMGT) confirmed on 11 April that is discussing a bid for Yahoo, one of a number of suitors to be eyeing up the troubled biz. In a statement the DMGT said: "Discussions are at a very early stage and that there is no certainty that any transaction will take place. We have no further comment at this …
"[..] the DM is easier on the eye than the Guardian's redesign last year."
The Daily Telegraph's new makeover is even more of an assault on the eyes. After a couple of days I gave up the masochism of looking at it. Their slide into DM news coverage meant I couldn't be bothered to set up FireFox to remove the formatting. So they can have the satisfaction that one more non-paying ad-blocking reader has left their thinning ranks.
The Mail Online seems to be doing quite well by extending its reach to audiences further afield than the geographically-restricted lower-Middle-England-bigot market of its print siblings. It features clickbaity articles that appeal to- and regularly appear on- American sites such as Fark.com, and endless celebrity dross stories, half of them featuring Kim Kardashian.
"It features clickbaity articles that appeal to- and regularly appear on- American sites [...]"
Most of the UK "broadsheet" online editions seem to attract a large number of overseas commentards - especially from the USA. They are usually being vitriolic in condemnation of articles supporting UK liberal attitudes regarding equality, sexuality, and religion.
It doesn't seem to pay amazing journalists either. Just reuses the 10 most popular articles from everywhere else, hastily littering it with the funniest spelling errors in the process, probably to avoid the hilarious copyright laws that has the internet in turmoil.
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Whenever I see yahoo on a client computer, it means they've got a virus, or some malware at least. As far as I'm concerned yahoo is just a place to avoid, full of ads and its search results tend to include harmful stuff. For example, I just typed "microsoft support" into yahoo's google search bar and the first thing it comes up with is some site pretending to be microsoft.
I wrote "Yahoo's google search bar" on purpose. Like "I googled it on yahoo", to emphasise, through the medium of wit, the irrelevance and redundancy of search engines other than google (OK, so it especially applies to Bing and Yahoo, both sites you can google from, but that give crap results)
How can you use one turd to polish another? Not one ounce of glitter between them to roll this combined piece of shit in ha ha! On a side note I see Yahoo mail have decided that when you empty your spam folder they substitute their own video spam in it's place - thanks a lot for that :-/
It'll make no difference, you haven't been allowed to wrap chips in newspaper for some years now, some sort of elf 'n savdee scam I suppose.
They even sell proper catering wrapping paper printed to look like newspaper to keep the traditionalists happy.
As far as I'm aware, the number of people who died as a result of chips wrapped in surplus newspaper is zero....... presumably that didn't stop some Whitehall supreme cuntbucket putting paid to the practice.
"As far as I'm aware, the number of people who died as a result of chips wrapped in surplus newspaper is zero"
You'd never know if someone did, as the toxicity effects would be long-lasting
Some printing inks cause liver and bladder cancers, but would develop so slowly that proving cause and effect would be difficult. The other toxic effects would be from lead dust, transferred from the traditional printing presses that were used prior to the 1980's
"So older newspaper readers are more likely to be a bit loopy?"
A more significant source of lead pollution in air and food was the anti-knock additives in petrol (gas). These were being phased out in the USA from the1970s and were banned completely in the EU by the 1990s.