The Daily Mail Song

I hate to post trite things on HN but if you haven't heard of the Daily Mail there is a good (and humorous) summary of the paper made into a song using only their headlines: [VIDEO]

>Relevant: [VIDEO] Ahhh this takes me back. What an amazing video. Made 11 years ago and it's just as accurate as it was back then. Honestly? Fuck the Daily Mail. Also The S*n, Daily Express, etc.

For those of you not familiar with the type of articles printed by the Daily Mail, here's Dan and Dan's Daily Mail Song: [VIDEO] (Scaremongering cancer headlines near the end here - [VIDEO] )

But, but, but, the Daily Mail says Brexit is good! It's absolutely true if it's written in the Daily Mail! I'm sure you've heard this song already, but it is worth a listen again to remember how Britain got here: [VIDEO]

> undermined by the fact that other channels will report on this stuff, but not the BBC. If you think the willingness of a news organization to publish something depends on how newsworthy it is, I guess all I can do is respond by quoting the Daily Mail Song: Pop stars take drugs Teen boys wear hoods Sports stars have sex Bears shit in woods ( [VIDEO] ) But that's still English news. I guess I can quote something else: > the more lurid, titillating, sensational, or nationalistic, the better. Even the distinguished Xinhua News Service is not immune from this sort of thing. I couldn't help but chuckle when the podcast host Scott Peters worried whether or not the American press corps' obsession with non-stories like Kim Kardashian and Bruce/Catelynn Jenner would give it [Xinhua] a strategic advantage in the contest to control global media narratives. My guess is Mr. Peters doesn't read Xinhua too often. If I had few dollars [for] every time Xinhua placed a photo collage like "Beautiful Female Soldiers From All Over the World," "Singer Valen Hsu Poses For Fashion Shots," "Sleeping Babies With Their Cutest Pets," on their front page... ( [LINK] ) Newsworthiness is something that can force news organizations to begrudgingly give up space they would rather have allocated to -- going back to the song -- their photo feature on schoolgirl skirt styles. If you're watching the news because you're hoping to learn something, you're making a blatant category error; that's not what the news i

You can pick between multiple headlines: "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", "At last a gay gene has been found so we can abort gay babies", and then there's [VIDEO]

Unfortunately the Daily Mail isnt really a news source. Try: [LINK] > In 2010/11, firearms were involved in 11,227 recorded offences in England and Wales, the seventh consecutive annual fall and a decrease of 13 per cent compared with the previous year (when 12,976 offences were recorded). Also: [VIDEO]

I'm surprised by the disproportionate level of angst from the people who are upset about the use of 'they' in place of 'he'. I can see the point of eliminating both and using 'it' instead, but some of the comments on that Github issue sounded like the kind of 'political correctness gone mad!' drivel that one[1] reads in the Daily Mail[2], for goodness' sake. [1] A gender-neutral pronoun! [2] If you're fortunate enough to not know what the Daily Mail is: [VIDEO]