The Daily Mail Song
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a running joke or satirical shorthand whenever the Daily Mail is cited or criticized.
What it is
A comedy song by Dan and Dan that summarizes the British newspaper The Daily Mail using only its headlines. It satirizes the paper's habit of claiming everything causes or cures cancer.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2010 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends simonsarris · 2011-10 · on “Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.”
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: [this video]
Recommends jason0597 · 2021-04 · on “Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results”
>Relevant: [this 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.
Critical summerdown2 · 2012-12 · on “The 2nd Amendment should protect the Internet, not your AK47”
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: [this video]
Critical rjknight · 2013-11 · on “To my friends in the Node community”
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: [this video]
Critical CM30 · 2019-01 · on “People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds”
Fox isn't the first, nor is it the only one, especially outside of the US. The UK tabloids have operated a lot like that for pretty much their entire existence, peddling misinformation and moral panics like they're going out of fashion. Hell, the Daily Mail even had a song written about it cause of that. [this video] It's also pretty prevalent on the radio, and has a fair few historical precedents from before journalism saw credibility as an important thing to keep in mind (yellow journalism et all).
Critical arp242 · 2021-04 · on “Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results”
Like what? I don't see anything that's not covered by other outlets. I do see stuff like "Can you THINK yourself thin? A hypnotist to the stars says you can - and reveals the five-step technique to try if you want to shed the 'lockdown stone'"[1] Taken from the front page right now. The article is even worse than the title suggests. Relevant: [this video] [1]: [LINK]
Critical ReflectedImage · 2021-05 · on “'Unique fingerprints' in Covid-19 could only have arisen from a laboratory”
In the UK it is widely known to be utter trash. Here's a song about it written in 2010: [this video] Song's punchline: "It's absolutely true because I read about it in the daily mail /s"