Even less reason to read (look at) the Hull Daily Mail

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mussiesredhat

mussiesredhat

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Like most on here, indeed like most of the population of Hull and the East Riding, I've long since stopped buying the paper. Without going into the detail the Hull Daily Mail now has a very limited market, almost niche I suppose, confined in the main to those whose reading age is corrolated to the joggers and trainers they wear and East Hull estates on which they live.

Indeed also like most on here I limit my Hull Daily Mail involvement to casting an eye online to see the odd headline but overlooking the majority of fabricated crap designed to pacify advertisers by attracting their typical target reader.

However, has anyone else noticed that the online version of the rag is becoming unreadable (or even unlookatable) with pop-ups and other distractions appearing at every other click. Do they really think that by doing this there is enough interest therein to force me to run out and buy it? I think not. And I feel that they are simply driving another nail into the inevitable decline. I wonder how long before they change the printed version to a three times per week item as the regional paper trend seems to be moving?

NB I realise that this may be a little 'clever' for the average NOT606 poster, but please feel free to present your opinion at will!
 
Not noticed any popups as I block them as most sensible people do, but I've long since stopped reading the online version. It's old or made up news for Hull City and nothing else in it holds any interest to me.

In main it perpetuates the myth that Hull is full of ******s and Rugby Supporters. There is a distinction between the two classes I hear.
 
mussiesredhat said:
Like most on here, indeed like most of the population of Hull and the East Riding, I've long since stopped buying the paper. Without going into the detail the Hull Daily Mail now has a very limited market, almost niche I suppose, confined in the main to those whose reading age is corrolated to the joggers and trainers they wear and East Hull estates on which they live.

Indeed also like most on here I limit my Hull Daily Mail involvement to casting an eye online to see the odd headline but overlooking the majority of fabricated crap designed to pacify advertisers by attracting their typical target reader.

However, has anyone else noticed that the online version of the rag is becoming unreadable (or even unlookatable) with pop-ups and other distractions appearing at every other click. Do they really think that by doing this there is enough interest therein to force me to run out and buy it? I think not. And I feel that they are simply driving another nail into the inevitable decline. I wonder how long before they change the printed version to a three times per week item as the regional paper trend seems to be moving?

NB I realise that this may be a little 'clever' for the average NOT606 poster, but please feel free to present your opinion at will!
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Agree 100%. About as ****e as £50 to watch a division 1 game.
 
Dr.Stanley O'Google said:
I'm like you, Mussie - in that the pop-ups piss me off.
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I don't think the HDM control the adverts, all the local papers websites are identical, it would suggest they are contracted to a web design company (much like the official City one) so adverts are likely to be their responsibility.
 
HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) said:
I don't think the HDM control the adverts, all the local papers websites are identical, it would suggest they are contracted to a web design company (much like the official City one) so adverts are likely to be their responsibility.
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This. Most reginal papers are owned and run by the daily mail and the website is out of the control of each individual papers manager. If the big boss wants to put adds on the it boss puts adds on, it's out of the HDM's hands and those adds are on the websites of many regional newspapers (including the Leicester Mercury).

Back to the OP it may have been a little 'clever' for the average NOT606 poster, but it was clearly far beyond the original poster himself <laugh>

You're a thick clown shoe mong Mussie.
 
The website used to be done by a company in Derby - not sure if that's still the case.

It's not done by the HDM though. Jesus, imagine how much worse it would be if it WAS...
 
I can't view it on my work computer as the ads cause it to crash repeatedly.

Can manage at home or on my phone.
 
Get Google Chrome, then get the two different add blockers available and then get the ad blocker for youtube videos and hey presto you will never see a pop up or ad again.
 
mussiesredhat said:
Like most on here, indeed like most of the population of Hull and the East Riding, I've long since stopped buying the paper. Without going into the detail the Hull Daily Mail now has a very limited market, almost niche I suppose, confined in the main to those whose reading age is corrolated to the joggers and trainers they wear and East Hull estates on which they live.

Indeed also like most on here I limit my Hull Daily Mail involvement to casting an eye online to see the odd headline but overlooking the majority of fabricated crap designed to pacify advertisers by attracting their typical target reader.

However, has anyone else noticed that the online version of the rag is becoming unreadable (or even unlookatable) with pop-ups and other distractions appearing at every other click. Do they really think that by doing this there is enough interest therein to force me to run out and buy it? I think not. And I feel that they are simply driving another nail into the inevitable decline. I wonder how long before they change the printed version to a three times per week item as the regional paper trend seems to be moving?

NB I realise that this may be a little 'clever' for the average NOT606 poster, but please feel free to present your opinion at will!
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What do you expect, it costs you nowt.
 
Its written by 14 year olds who know nothing of the local area. Only decent reporter is Angus Young. Phil Sunderlandham sometimes writes some good stuff but overall the paper is rugby league biased, the sport's letters page straight out of Viz and the rest of it is ****e. Look at todays billboards for example 'get a spray for giant spiders' FFS Hold the front page!
The website is unreadable and the forum is infested with work shy opinionated eggchasers.
 
I actually feel a little bit sorry for Mussie. He strives to be seen as an intellectual, and well...he clearly isn't.

You didn't even understand your own post mate. I can see what you were aiming for but....

I do mean it,when i say i'm sympathetic. No ones life can ever achieve the potential we were born with,until we realise our own strengths and weaknesses.

Never try to be something you are not. Just embrace the gifts nature has already given you.

You won't look such a fool <ok>
 
It's no longer a local paper, most of the stories come from the press association and what's left seems to all be written by teenagers.
 
Tell you what, when you compare the HDM with some of the local offerings in other places, you realise it's nowhere near as bad as you think...
 
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