Digg users have a love affair with two particular “Newspapers”, the Daily Telegraph, and the Daily Mail. This really bothers me. Here is some of the stellar “journalism” these “Newspapers” have featured recently:

• “Man pulls out 13 of his own teeth with pliers ” – Daily Mail
• “How we became powerless to stop the huge growth in lap-dance” – Daily Mail
• “Woman fails driving test 771 times” – Daily Telegraph
• “3,000 Year Old Egyptian Vase Left in Garden For 20 Years” – Daily Telegraph

This crap is the journalistic equivalent of obnoxious banner ads, because they are created purely for the purpose of soliciting clicks, and inflating these tabloid’s advertising revenue. Hmm, content created to attract dumb people and sell more ads, that reminds me of another publishing model, TABLOIDS.

Digg users otherwise seem to pride themselves on being an enlightened, albeit homogenous demographic. How can we be supporting this tabloid crap?!

I think, because the Telegraph and Daily Mail were designed to look like legit newspapers online, American Digg users don’t understand that they are actually just crap tabloids. For definitive proof that these are tabloids, see below.

In the next post I’ll show you how you can rid your Digg.com of this scourge!