Coogan: “If the Daily Mail went to the wall tomorrow I’d be delighted”

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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.”

Watch it:

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

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38 Responses to “Coogan: “If the Daily Mail went to the wall tomorrow I’d be delighted””

  1. Richard Garside

    Just bn announced Steve Coogan will appear b4 the #LevesonInquiry on Tues; let's hope 4 a repeat of this: http://t.co/4IRtwkDP #DailyFail

  2. Shamik Das

    Just bn announced Steve Coogan will appear b4 the #LevesonInquiry on Tues; let's hope 4 a repeat of this: http://t.co/4IRtwkDP #DailyFail

  3. Rick Walton

    Just bn announced Steve Coogan will appear b4 the #LevesonInquiry on Tues; let's hope 4 a repeat of this: http://t.co/4IRtwkDP #DailyFail

  4. Laura Beardshall

    …because it has the requisite level of pompous prurience and contempt for the weak" http://t.co/f73FEtz8

  5. Claire Jones

    Will Steve Coogan manage to bring down the Daily Mail today? http://t.co/4IRtwkDP See his opening salvo from Newsnight. #leveson

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