Daily Mail | |
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| Founded | 4 May 1896 |
| Founder | Alfred Harmsworth and Harold Harmsworth |
| Industry | Bourgeois media |
| Website | |
| dailymail.co.uk | |
The Daily Mail is a British right wing tabloid newspaper that publishes imperialist propaganda to promote the interests of the British bourgeoisie, frequently releasing inaccurate or sensationalist news articles to promote bigotry or support capitalism. The paper is so unreliable that even Wikipedia had to stop using it as a source in 2017,[1] but despite this since 2020 it has been the biggest selling newspaper in the UK.[2]
History
In the 1930s the Daily Mail, and in particular founder Rothermere, supported the Nazis along with Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF), promoting fascism as a viable style of government in the interests of the British upper classes. They only changed their mind about the Nazis when the British ruling class began to fear that Nazi Germany would disrupt British imperialism as a result of the breakout of the Second World War.[3]
References
- ↑ Jasper Jackson (2017-02-08). "Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source" The Guardian.
- ↑ Mark Sweney (2020-06-20). "Daily Mail eclipses the Sun to become UK's top-selling paper" The Guardian.
- ↑ John Newsinger (2019-03-29). "Fascism and the Daily Mail" Socialist Worker.