Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Daily Mail Tube Map




Those of us who disdain the Daily Heil are not alone, indeed I suspect we are the majority. You can easily tell if you are in a Daily Mail reader’s house by the DVD’s used as coasters for it is only with these silly giveaways and giving away a large part of its circulation for free that this rag maintains its readership. Bravo then to the The Poke website, a tabloid parody (Motto; “Time Well Wasted”) for updating its Daily Mail Moral Underground map which brings together two of my obsessions, the anti-journalism of the Daily Heil and Harry Beck’s iconic Underground map.

http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/mapping-world.html

In preparation for London 2012 The Poke updated their Daily Mail Moral Underground tube map to guide the influx of Olympic tourists to over 250 thrilling destinations in Dacreville, a somewhat schizophrenic place name after Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail’s well pass his sell by date Editor.



Readers can now get a one-way ticket to Winslet, Wind Turbines and Waitrose or purchase a cheap-day return to Tasers, Traffic Wardens and Twiggy. There’s a whole new line of cancer attractions to worry about including Facebook Cancer, Squatter Cancer, Salad Cancer and Minicab Cancer – but with our handy guide to the Daily Mail’s pitfalls and windfalls of contemporary Britain, you should at least know who to hate, and where to the hate them.



An excellent map and an essential guide to the world of strange obsessions which drive the Daily Mail’s unique and dying brand of non-journalism!











The Mail Tube Map (click to enlarge)



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