Steve Coogan savaged the feral, gutter press on Newsnight last night - reserving his greatest scorn for the Daily Mail and the paper's editor Paul Dacre.
Steve Coogan savaged the feral, gutter press on Newsnight last night – reserving his greatest scorn for the Daily Mail and the paper’s editor Paul Dacre.
Elucidating what most decent people think of the Mail, he said:
“Remember what a character Paul Dacre is and the Daily Mail, this is a newspaper which is, we chose the newspaper to be Alan Partridge’s favourite newspaper, because it has the requisite level of pompous prurience and contempt for the weak, and a xenophobic attitude and this creates this image of a, of a, of a Little England where people play cricket, drink warm beer and all the corner shops are run by white people, and that is not reality, and I don’t think that someone who presents and trades on, and trades to people’s worst fears, as that newspaper does, panders to people’s worst fears, I don’t believe it deserves to exist.
“If the Daily Mail went to the wall, tomorrow I’d be delighted, there’s lots of other, better, newspapers, it’s worse than the tabloids…”
Adding:
“Well, the red tops at least wear their vulgarity on their sleeves, the Daily Mail has a certain duplicity to its nature.”
Coogan’s comments yesterday came after Dacre addressed the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. The inquiry continues.
See also:
• Leveson Inquiry hears of the ethical rot of Fleet Street – Alex Hern, October 7th 2011
• The Daily Mail’s poisonous lies must be fought by all trade unionists – Rick Coyle, September 23rd 2011
• Hurrah for the climate deniers: How the Daily Mail swallowed enviroscepticism whole – Tim Holmes, June 9th 2011
• The Daily Mail, fascism and No2AV: A comedy of errors – Dominic Browne, March 29th 2011
• How to fake up a Daily Mail benefits story in five easy steps – Declan Gaffney, February 25th 2011
38 Responses to “Coogan: “If the Daily Mail went to the wall tomorrow I’d be delighted””
Rob the crip
I love the Daily mails disability free cars, I’m waiting to have my free car.
But of course look at the comments and you will see mostly the white Middle class with posh voices saying Ya ya we know. bit like IDS and Cameron and sadly Miliband.
Bob Walker
To be blunt, there isn’t one mainstream paper that’s worth a light. A plague on all their houses.
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Ed's Talking Balls
Aww, diddums. Coogan dislikes paper which writes up salacious details of celebs’ private lies. Big surprise there, then, given his well documented (in that paper and several others) checkered past.
The simple fact, which so many people fail to grasp when it comes to the Daily Mail, is that people buy it. Compare and contrast its sales with other newspaper: a favourable comparison for Mr Dacre (who, incidentally, I would agree comes across as a vile man). It’s all well and good you and Coogan telling us what ‘most decent people think’, but, happily, you and your ilk don’t get to decide what others think.
Coogan can wish for it to go to the wall all he wants. It’s not going to happen.
Chas Turpin
I can just see Alan Partridge asking Lynne to get onto http://phonetapping.org when he needs a new thunderflash and lightshow spectacular corporate gig. “Want my to tap your phone you dirty journalist – or do you just want me to dance on your lap?”. Coogan is in bed with the media and unwittingly reveals that side of his sleazy showbiz image with his most famous character. Pot calling kettle black, in my book.