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The Daily Mail is a medium, somewhat well-known newspaper. It started in 1896. It is published every weekday and Saturday from a factory in London, England. It is not printed on Sundays. Its sister paper, the Mail on Sunday, is printed instead.

It is the second-most sold newspaper in the United Kingdom. It sells more than a million copies a day. Its political opinion is right-wing, and it supports the Conservative Party in elections. The newspaper is available in many countries outside the United Kingdom, such as Egypt and the US. There is a different Scottish edition of the newspaper, which is sold in Scotland and on Ebay and differs mainly in the Sport pages. There is also an Irish version of the newspaper, but the main international version is the English one.

It is the main publication of the Daily Mail and General Trust, but the company also prints the Evening Standard, London Lite and Metro newspapers in the UK.

People are often critical of The Daily Mail, because a lot of people think it's racist and sexist.[1] Sources also state that it is unreliable and that it publishes inaccurate scare stories about science and medical research.[2][3][4]

Politically the Daily Mail is right-wing.[5][6][7] It has endorsed the Conservative Party at every UK general election since 1945, apart from the October 1974 general election, where it endorsed a Liberal and Conservative coalition.[8][9][10][11]

The Daily Mail was first published by Lord Northclife in 1896. It started as a broadsheet. It is now a tabloid.[12]

References

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  1. Pearce, Jonathan MS (23 March 2014). "Proof (again) that the Daily Mail is a Racist, Sexist, Bigoted Diatribe • A Tippling Philosopher".
  2. Collins, Lauren (April 2012). "Mail Supremacy". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 17 May 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  3. Jackson, Jasper (9 February 2017). "Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  4. Goldacre, Ben (2008). Bad science. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 9780007240197.
  5. Gaber, Ivor (2014). "The 'Othering' of 'Red Ed', or How the Daily Mail 'Framed' the British Labour Leader". The Political Quarterly. 85 (4): 471–479. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12114. ISSN 1467-923X. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  6. Stoegner, Karin; Wodak, Ruth (14 March 2016). "'The man who hated Britain' – the discursive construction of 'national unity' in the Daily Mail". Critical Discourse Studies. 13 (2): 193–209. doi:10.1080/17405904.2015.1103764. ISSN 1740-5904. S2CID 147469921.
  7. Meyer, Anneke (1 March 2010). "Too Drunk To Say No". Feminist Media Studies. 10 (1): 19–34. doi:10.1080/14680770903457071. ISSN 1468-0777. S2CID 142036919. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  8. "Newspaper support in UK general elections". The Guardian. 4 May 2010. Archived from the original on 1 August 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  9. Martinson, Jane (6 May 2015). "The Sun serves Ed Miliband a last helping of abuse". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  10. McKee, Ruth (3 June 2017). "Which parties are the UK press backing in the general election?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  11. Mayhew, Freddy (9 December 2019). "What the papers say about the 2019 general election". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  12. Nelson, Robert (5 May 1971). "London Daily Mail goes compact". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, Massachusetts. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2011.

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