The Daily Mirror (sister paper to the Sunday Mirror) is a Labour orientated tabloid newspaper available Monday to Saturday (32p Mon.-Fri, more expensive Sat, due to additional supplements). Although it is mainly Labour orientated, it has shown in recent weeks that it is prepared to speak out ... Read review
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Advantages: keeps you up to date on world news Disadvantages: too much to read sometimes
The Daily Mirror (sister paper to the Sunday Mirror) is a Labour orientated tabloid newspaper available Monday to Saturday (32p Mon.-Fri, more expensive Sat, due to additional supplements). Although it is mainly Labour orientated, it has shown in recent weeks that it is prepared to speak out against the government and believes in the freedom of speech, with articles giving the Pros and Cons of the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
...Mirror Money (Wednesdays), The A List – news and reviews on entertainment, etc (Fridays) and on Saturdays there is Home Life, and Racing Life as well as the TV Guide for the following week.
Every day, there are
Horoscopes by Jonathan Cainer- there was real hype about this astrologist joining The Mirror, just as there was great hype about him joining The Express newspaper. Unfortunately, most of his “predictions” are ... more
The Daily Mirror (sister paper to the Sunday Mirror) is a Labour orientated tabloid newspaper available Monday to Saturday (32p Mon.-Fri, more expensive Sat, due to additional supplements). Although it is mainly Labour orientated, it has shown in recent weeks that it is prepared to speak out against the government and believes in the freedom of speech, with articles giving the Pros and Cons of the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
Regular supplements throughout the week included Football Mania (Mondays), Mirror Money (Wednesdays), The A List – news and reviews on entertainment, etc (Fridays) and on Saturdays there is Home Life, and Racing Life as well as the TV Guide for the following week.
Every day, there are Horoscopes by Jonathan Cainer- there was real hype about this astrologist joining The Mirror, just as there was great hype about him joining The Express newspaper. Unfortunately, most of his “predictions” are gobbledygook and make no sense – Sagittarians had quite a run of “Hammer Horror” style predictions, with him ranting about how Igor was going to chase them, etc.
Amy’s I (articles about the net, including comments on broadband access, useful sites, unusual sites and on Saturday s there is a full page spread, usually about new items to purchase for computers and news from exhibitions. Very useful information – supplemented well by Carol Vordeman’s 3 pages on Fridays about particular topics, e. g education, tracing family history, sport. Amy has now left and this feature is still run but by different people every week.
6 cartoons, including Andy Capp – a well known character
Miriam Stoppard’s problem page – she often gets young people to help her answer problems submitted by teenagers, which is a brilliant idea. On Tuesdays, she submits a problem, and asks for readers to submit their responses before summing up her own views – another interesting idea, which certainly gives much food for thought. She also regularly reports on a particular topic (full page spread) with health and psychological consequences, e. g Depression, Arthritis, Asthma, etc – usually with a list of helpful addresses to write to for more information and telephone numbers. She has recently been doing an A-Z of useful organisations to contact, which has proved very interesting reading.
Sport pages. I never read these so can not comment. Incidentally I always read my paper backwards (I am lefthanded if this explains it) and start from just before the sports pages.
Crosswords and letters pages, with the ability to text or email letters (mailbox@mirror.co.uk). I have never tried this.
On Thursdays there was a page called Judge Jacobs, which advised people about aspects of the law, and possible solutions to a great many legal problems, such as neighbour disputes, divorces, reclaiming money when items not received/faulty etc. This was a great read, as he was down to earth, funny, and direct and often wrote his responses as poems.
Unfortunately, Mr Jacobs died, but his page had been missing from the paper for at least a month maybe two prior to his death, but as nothing had been put in the paper to explain, I thought that the journalist had perhaps moved onto another paper. That is, until I saw the obituary that was put in The Mirror the day after his demise. This feature ought to be brought back - it was extremely useful.
The editorial content sometimes goes overboard on one particular topic. This means devoting 12 or more pages to the subject, which is to be expected for certain topics such as terrorism, death of a royal, war, etc, but sometimes the topic is a celebrity wedding or divorce – which is more suited to Hello or OK magazines!
Overall, the paper is a good read – easy to understand, well written, gives good coverage of a variety of subjects and provides plenty of historical information/background when needed – the only downside is I don’t always have time to read it all, so I save it up for Sunday afternoons some weeks.
Although, the paper is Labour orientated they are not afraid of campaigning against the government and are currently advertising against Bush/Blair wars on Iraq, including incorporating this into a TV advertisement. The paper was all for Labour getting in both terms of office and are often criticizing both Consrevative and Liberal Democrats. Their coverage of the election was rather biased towards Labour winning but they included in their well-written articles details of all parliamentary candidates policies.
The articles are written in plain English with all jargon and abbreviations clearly explained. If they print articles that are incorrect – even slightly such as the age of the participant and they are notified of their mistake - they have a daily ‘For the Record’ article (usually on the Letters page) where they correct their mistakes and apologise.
I do not read all the paper, as I find the gossip pages (3 am and Scurra) are too absurd for words. They show pictures of so-called celebrities attending the opening of an envelope, usually falling over drunk or writing belittling, derogatory comments about non-entities such as Narinder from Big Brother. I do not often read the Editor’s Comments but I regularly read the Gardening page on Saturdays which has lots of useful tips.
The Holiday pages often give suggestions as to where to go at a particular location and has an interesting piece on internet sites to find unusual holiday destinations – well worth a look. There are plenty of pictures to tantalise and a regular feature is the comparison of the pound against the main local currencies and the temperatures of several European cities.
The 3am girls now produce a magazine for Wednesdays about celebrities, fashion, make up tips, etc which includes a weekly horoscope feature which also tells you a bit about a Celebrity for each star sign.
Recently they have been supplying free CDs on Saturdays with the Television magazine "You love telly" and I have received and loved the following: Perfect weekend Vol 1 (you could have purchased other volumes - but I chose not to); Such a good feeling; 3am party; 3am hits; Greatest male artists; Greatest female artists; and Let's get away; These CDs covered songs from Frank Sinatra to Meatloaf; Cindi Lauper to Aretha Franklin and there were no token collects!
I have also been able to gain some free DVD's - again in Saturday's papers which were Cabaret (no token collect) and Muriel's Wedding, On Golden Pond, Enemy of the State and Good Will Hunting. These required tokens collecting and a stamped addressed envelope with 60p or 42p stamps (depending on DVD - some came in proper cases and one came in just a card sleeve like all the CDs). You had to wait 28day after posting requests and it was first come, first served, so I have not received Good Will Hunting - but my 28days are not yet up so maybe I still will.
There is usually an annual token collect for holidays from £38 at holiday parks such as Haven and Butlins (Feb) - the holidays are all out of season (eg Mar-beginning of May, Oct-Dec, etc) and a token collect for theme parks - these include London, Edinburgh and York Dungeons, Sealife centres, Madame Tussauds, etc and are well worth applying for. I have received them 3 years running and visited many of the places we received tickets for. As my boyfriend is unemployed these are a lifeline as they are 2 for the price of 1, half price entry or even 2 free entries, so we have save loads just for the price of a couple of stamps and collecting tokens. I expected that we would receive loads of junk mail or that they were a gimmick but I can assure you that they are not.
For more information, there is also a website (not yet checked myself), www.mirror.co.uk or just pop in your local newsagents and BUY a copy!
Advantages: Easy on the eyes. Easy to read. Disadvantages: The 3am people. Too many pictures of Liz Hurley
...where incidentally my son works, the Daily Mirror is reputedly Britains most popular daily tabloid. As he brings home a copy of this paper daily, I suppose I had better be loyal and write about it.
Did you know, or suspect possibly, that this newspaper originally started out as a Womens newspaper at the end of the l9th Century. Personally I feel it still slants towards it's feminine readers with many features on slimming, make up, fashion etc.,each ... ...later became Viscount Northcliffe, the Mirror has, in the main, always been a working class newspaper with articles fighting beaurocracy and feauturing personal stories with a human interest. During the second world war, the cartoon Jane (a scantily dressed nymphette) was said to have boosted the morale of many a wartime serviceman and her picture adorned umpteen fighter planes.
The Mirror has retained in the main its working class origins, its ...
ANNJSEC 05.04.2001
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Advantages: I think I've told you! Disadvantages: Random sport stories
...be an expression of why The Mirror is the best paper in the world, because it isn't. Even though the broadsheets have dumbed themselves down over the last few years to include celebrities and the like, the tabloids are still a different kettle of fish.
I should first admit that I'm very much left-wing and that my family have read The Mirror for a number of years. Therefore everyone expects that I read the Mirroe simply because I'm a 'working class ... ...in terms of journalistic values, The Mirror is a mile ahead of the other tabloids. Certainly, it shows political bias, but no worse than The Sun. BUT if you open up a copy of The Mirror tomorrow you will see serious stories reported on by serious journalists. In comparison, open up The Sun or The Star and you will see a plain woman with her unattractive breasts hanging out and, normally, a story on how Bill from Weymouth got stuck on the motorway ...
BennyRialto 28.01.2001
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Advantages: A good read with excellent content including free magazines. Disadvantages: Politically to the left of centre, if this is not to your liking.
I've been buying The Mirror for a long time now and find it the best of the so called tabloid papers. They have always stuck to their guns on subjects and don't mind being out of step with the other tabloids. As someone who is to the left of centre politics wise, I appreciate reading a paper that is broadly sympathetic to my opinions but doesn’t accept everything Labour say and do without question. Although you could never describe the content ... ...to get a copy because the crossword is just difficult enough to make it a struggle to finish, without it becoming boring. I’ve always found the Sun one a bit easy by comparison even though I’m no crossword expert. There is still a financial page during the week but this is now less prominent since the well publicised problems with the City Slickers column which used to be a regular feature. This column offers things share tips to buy ...
mickb 03.02.2001
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Advantages: Better than most tabloids Disadvantages: Not the most informative paper
...a paper its not for the ‘real news’. I’ve got standards though, I don’t think I’ll ever sink as low as to read The Daily Star and if the Mirror is sold out I’m still hard pushed to by The Sun. The Mirror is a typical ‘Red Top’ paper, it’s got the ‘witty’ headlines, the abbreviated nicknames of politicians and the celebrity content.
The Mirror is defiantly a step up from the aforementioned ... ...what it means, getting to the point quickly and not tip-toeing around any hard to read facts. Although you wont get the detail, depth and analysis you may get in The Mail or any of the Broadsheets what is there is enough to keep you abreast of the main issues happening in the UK (although it is not always the best for all the international news).
Each article is adorned by a big picture and maybe a few others with the main text around it. Like most ...
3rdRockSatan 16.06.2001
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Advantages: Not in this respect Disadvantages: Unethical, irresponsible, foolhardy
...background - I worked for the Daily Mirror way back in 1988, well before the Maxwell pensions fiasco, so I've got some historic insider knowledge and I can tell you that there have always been problems internally with the organisation and despite the successful attempts to modernise the way that the paper was produced, etc. it still remains a very odd organisation, though it's a considerably better one following the demise of Captain Bob.
Together ... ...to capture the low brow working man market and operates at a fairly downmarket loevel in order to do so. You read the two papers some days (as I'm prone to do when we visit my wife's 80 year old grandmother, but only becaus eit's there you understand, I don't like the rag!), you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference, although the Mirror is fundamentally socialist in leaning while the Sun has made the transition from being staunchly right wing ...
dave27 12.04.2001
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Advantages: Cheap and it shows , weekly television guide thrown in Disadvantages: Trashy , cheap and nasty , uninformative unless you like sport
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Advantages: Easy to hold Disadvantages: Excessively opinionated, poor news coverage
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