Hate the Daily Mail? You’ll love this!

This automatic headline generator caught my eye this morning and, before the serious work of the day, I felt the urge to share.
The Daily Mail-o-matic promises: “A new Daily Mail headline every time you click the button. Now updated to include 2009 bogeymen!”
It’s a bit of fun but it did also prompt me to consider just how much satire and wrath the favoured read of the Home Counties has been inspiring online of late.
A dislike of its style/politics/stance has already prompted someone to start a Twitter stream with the name Daily_Mail . (Sadly it has too many bad words for me to quote here but if you’re an adult reading this who appreciates satirical humour you can amuse yourself later with that!)
In Birmingham this week a determined group of assorted digital creatives have been busily campaigning to get their blog the coveted best UK blog award – nothing strange about that no, but the campaign has been based as much on stopping the Daily Mail’s published online rants from Melanie Phillips picking up the prize.
It depends on your political views whether you think this sort of behaviour is acceptable but regardless of viewpoint, if you publish such biased, misinformed and, frankly, dull stories as this “How boring: Celebrities…..” then gloves are off with the educated, web-savvy audience publisher now face.
This yawningly trivial piece about celebrities even attempted to point to some more sinister purpose by revealing that, shock horror, MPs use Twitter. Well there’s news for you!
It also contains the shocking revelation;
“Astonishingly, one Labour politician even posted a message from inside the House of Commons Chamber.”
Talk about publishing pointless mundane short statements!