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  • dogtag
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 14985

    #1

    It seems I have to educate some here as to "Tabloid" ...

    The term Tabloid is not a word describing a Gossip Sheet,
    it is a SIZE format as opposed to the other newspaper
    format Broadsheet. The Dly Mail was a broadsheet but has
    downsized to tabloid reflecting the declining interest in printed
    news due to a modern preference for things electronic.
    Newspapers are: Dly Mail, Dly Express. Dly Telegraph.
    Gossip Sheets are: Dly Mirror. Dly Star, National Enquirer.
    No doubt a few stories turn out to be erroneous, but compared
    to the American press where Most of the stories are erroneous,
    I'm apt to forgive the bad because they publish many interesting
    articles and old war stories not found elsewhere.
    I'm surprised at the ignorance about this shown around here
    by otherwise intelligent people, apart from the stooges of course.
  • Roadkingtrax
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2010
    • 7835

    #2
    See, you can learn something from an immigrant!
    "The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. Ullman

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    • Sandpebble
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2017
      • 2196

      #3
      However DT .... the Daily Mail will never post a story that displays America... or Americans in a favorable light .... ever .... is that why you like it so much ?

      " I'm surprised at the ignorance about this shown around here by otherwise intelligent people, .... apart from the stooges of course. "
      Last edited by Sandpebble; 09-06-2019, 12:36.

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      • togor
        Banned
        • Nov 2009
        • 17610

        #4
        I don't think DT sees the stories as having an "anti-American" bias because it matches his own. Which is to say, he doesn't think much of the country in which he resides. Maybe that's why he never became a citizen? DT does retain a dry wit and hasn't gone completely over the ledge (far from it) like say an Allen, but yeah, he clearly doesn't understand how curated stories from a foreign publication (to the rest of us if not him) with an endlessly negative slant about the USA might start to wear a little thin. Even I say something neutral or slightly positive about Trump once in a blue moon, and believe me, that is not easy to do!
        Last edited by togor; 09-06-2019, 01:08.

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        • Vern Humphrey
          Administrator - OFC
          • Aug 2009
          • 15875

          #5
          Originally posted by dogtag
          The term Tabloid is not a word describing a Gossip Sheet,
          it is a SIZE format as opposed to the other newspaper
          format Broadsheet. The Dly Mail was a broadsheet but has
          downsized to tabloid reflecting the declining interest in printed
          news due to a modern preference for things electronic.
          Newspapers are: Dly Mail, Dly Express. Dly Telegraph.
          Gossip Sheets are: Dly Mirror. Dly Star, National Enquirer.
          No doubt a few stories turn out to be erroneous, but compared
          to the American press where Most of the stories are erroneous,
          I'm apt to forgive the bad because they publish many interesting
          articles and old war stories not found elsewhere.
          I'm surprised at the ignorance about this shown around here
          by otherwise intelligent people, apart from the stooges of course.
          You got all three of them!!

          I don't read their posts because I'm allergic to crap -- but I see they posted here, one, two, three.

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          • Roadkingtrax
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2010
            • 7835

            #6
            Originally posted by Vern Humphrey
            You got all three of them!!

            I don't read their posts because I'm allergic to crap -- but I see they posted here, one, two, three.
            Makes you 4. Just need S. Adolphus Boggs for #5!
            "The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. Ullman

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            • Allen
              Moderator
              • Sep 2009
              • 10583

              #7
              Originally posted by Vern Humphrey
              You got all three of them!! I see they posted here, one, two, three.
              One, two, three = same.

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              • Sandpebble
                Senior Member
                • Mar 2017
                • 2196

                #8
                Originally posted by Allen
                One, two, three = same.
                So Allen ... if I may ask of you.... and Vern as well....

                are you happy that DT constantly posts anti American posts from what he claims is a .... "non tabloid" publication "

                You do in fact read this tripe DT constantly links us to... don't you ? How do those articles make you feel ? .... proud ?

                And screw you too Vern because I know you read these posts .... Daily Mail make you feel proud of America ?

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                • lyman
                  Administrator - OFC
                  • Aug 2009
                  • 11268

                  #9
                  sometimes the DM gives a bit more info, and from a different view (and better pics,,, ) than most American papers,

                  but I sometimes look at the Sun and the Mirror as well,

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