Insulting stuff. I am not alone in thinking the Guardian is as bad as The Mail.
The problem with journalism per se is that if you read an article on a subject that you know a lot, or even just something, about then you are bound to be disappointed by the banal, trivial, shallow and possibly incorrect or at least misleading nature of the article.
This is unsurprising. Most journalists are English Literature, Classics or (sharply indrawn breath of shock) Media graduates. This prepares you as an expert in a narrow band of literature and possibly some very ancient rhetorical techniques that will always be incorrect when applied to modern life. [MMR - one doctor vs all the other doctors in the world - equal weight of argument, for example]
However, given that even the most-est Renaissance Man can only have access to (say) one percentage point of the total knowledge of mankind and (if you are super-human, like Paul R say) possibly a keen analytic ability that allows argument and data to be dissected to within an inch of respectability. But this leaves 99% of human knowledge available to be poorly summarised by journalists and for you to be at least slightly better informed than if you go without.
It is certainly possible to apply ones own analytic ability to the different journalists and editorial presentation of The Times, Telegraph, Independent and Guardian and decide on personal preference. Utterly reasonable. I also find the rather gushingly over PC and blinkered to common sense approach of The Guardian to be a little trying at times.
However. To suggest that any one of the reasonably sensible newspapers above are "as bad" as The Daily Mail suggests a dislike for the occasional Graun editorial hectoring bordering on the pathological. How did they hurt you?
The Daily Mail panders to and stokes the paranoia of the worst of "Middle England." The curtain twitching, not voyeurs but neighbourhood watch, she's not as good as she should be, what are immigrants doing to your house prices, wind power - NO, is your microwave giving you cancer, bio-waste power NO, mother of twenty lives in palace and gets £1M and is an immigrant, nuclear power - NO, paedophilia NO - but see the picture above of Ffion (15) in a bikini before her coming out - paedos EVIL, but lusting after blue blood teenagers in jodhpurs, riding boots and imaging being tied up and that whip... ...is your water giving you cancer, immigrant benefit frauds are eroding your house prices, Diana to beatified, evil paedophile benefit fraud "Pope" stands in way of Diana beatification, IMMIGRANTS RAPED YOUR HOUSE PRICES, HS2 and your house prices - is your neighbour getting more than you and how to shop them to the Police as immigrant benefit fraudsters if so, immigrants all the fault of the French/Germans/Euros/Blair, is your newspaper giving you cancer?
Vs
Occasionally we are a little too self righteous and overly PC. And we usually criticise ourselves for same. Even if it is only Charlie Brooker and the huge chip on his shoulder for being the only person in the building without the yoke of an English Literature degree.
No contest.
(If we follow typical Daily Mail editorial solutions - we could deport, render for soap or burn for electricity [biofuel subsidy available - bloody Europe] the Daily Mail readership - SEE FFION IN DRAX OVERALLS AND SHOVEL WITH SEXY SMUT ON NOSE above right - to fix the problem)
