What is the political bias of the Daily Mail and Glasgow Herald newspapers?

Question

Just asking on a friend's behalf.

Answer 1

The Glasgow Herald used to be politically impartial but has increasingly become left wing - I stopped reading it for that reason. The journalism used to be balanced analysis but degenerated into Labour propaganda.

Pity really. It has become a local paper for the West of Scotland.

The Mail is less affected than the Herald and has national appeal - a tabloid compared to an old fashioned broadsheet.

Answer 2

Daily Herald Glasgow

Answer 3

Veritas is absolutely right but she forgot dear old Keith Waterhouse. The Daily Mail, like all other newspapers, has its own political agenda, which is right wing Conservative. Take some of it with a pinch of salt, but it's a good read.

The 3 papers mentioned by Veritas are the only papers which are not bought and paid for by Rupert Murdoch or the Government. You pays your money and you takes your choice!

Answer 4

Who Cares I read the Sun Monday to friday and the Yorkshire Post on a Saturday but then don't all papers have a political bias

Answer 5

The 'Daily Mail', together with 'The Telegraph' and 'Daily Express' are the only newspapers whose political/social views I would trust. Most of the others, particularly 'The Guardian', 'Observer', and 'The Independant' have a left wing bias. Much of the terrestrial TV media has a left of centre bias. So, that is another reason I focus on the three newspapers I referred to above.

The Mail is constantly villified by left wingers, and the indoctrinated ones, who don't know any better. With the help of this Government, the old centre ground has been moved to the left, giving the impression that the views espoused in the Mail are right of centre, and according to the really confused, extreme right. In fact, they are the traditional (patriotic centre ground) views that most people still hold.

The Mail has some really excellent political/social columnists, Peter Hitchens, Melanie Phillips (my favourite), Richard Littlejohn, Max Hastings. Simon Heiffer has moved to the Telegraph. I would defy anyone who isn't a raving left wing anarchist, to deny that their columns espouse good common sense.

And where does this comment about the Mail supporting Hitler come from? Bearing in mind that most of the Government supported him up to the time of the war, because it was unclear what he was up to. He took control of the German Nationalist Socialist Party (I would have thought that this was in lefty territory) and slowly turned it into a Right Wing Military dictatorship. So, provide proof please.

Answer 6

Daily Mail - strongly right-wing, pro-Conservative, anti-European, spiritual home of right-wing nutters such as Melanie Phillips (who is completely mad), Richard Littlejohn (an utter pr*ck) and Paul 'Loonybins' Johnson.

Glasgow Herald - left-of-centre, socially fairly liberal, can be a bit parochial. Tend to concentrate on Scottish angles to news.

Answer 7

Politically that's Conservative and is extremely directed to allure to women. Its time-honored mission is to pander to Conservative, middle classification and lady prejudices with a view to generate as a lot earnings as a threat. It in many circumstances spouts polemic (arguable argument) in preserving with those prejudices in place of attempting to take a balanced, purpose and extreme view of events, only, regrettably, as do maximum uk newspapers. that's even better unlucky considering the fact that in the united kingdom we count upon the newspapers and the printed media to concentrate of our rights and freedoms. instead of attempting to reduce the damage our legislators do each day, papers like the Mail are instead in the vanguard of screaming for better regulation, better regulation, better quangos and hysterically shouting down every body that dares to take any view in competition to theirs. immediately they're little better than individual comics, full of salacious gossip and 'existence-kind' tat and wearing 3 pages of 'genuine' information at maximum proper.

Answer 8

The daily mail just hates anything to do with the current labour government.It is a Tory rag.Good stories now and again though.Don`t know about the herald!

Answer 9

Don't know about the Herald, but the Mail is about as right-wing as it comes, to the point where they supported Hitler and the Nazis, and backed the nascent British fascist movement.