Sorry, are you cracked? The Daily Mirror's readership consists of Channel Five watching Peter Andre lovers and people who buy it for comedy value.

Hear Hear. The Daily Mirror has the chance to be the very first Citzens Newspaper produced by the ordinary people for the ordinary people. If Citizen Journalists can be persuaded to put the paper together at a reasonable rate and for a reasonable street price then it has a chance of competing with the other tabloids. Journalists have their role but they also need citizen journalists to fill the paper out as well. But investment comes at a price. 45p is disgraceful; 30p should be the acceptable cover price. So its journalists are going to have to make sacrifices.

"It was the only newspaper to speak out against the invasion of Iraq".

And the only one to knowingly print fake photographs of soliders committing illegal acts in Iraq.

Whatever it's fault, it's the only tabloid newspaper prepared to oppose the Tories.

Having worked for both the daily mirror and the daily herald (where i was father of the NUJ chapel) and having fought five general election campaigns and been an mp, I find the notion of A. Campbell and P. Morgan being "radical" as hilarious as is the notion of Livingstone being in the tradition of the labour party.

@Justicia.

"There is no media bias against the Labour party"

ROTFLMAO!

Remind me how many papers support the Tories as opposed to Labour?!

Add Sky News, Nick Robinson and David Dimbleby to the mix and you have a slight imbalance in party preference. :P

So how the devil did this Sly Bailey person get to be in charge of the whole shebang? And how can we call for her resignation?

I like swatantra nandanwar's idea of a free paper, but how will it pay for itself without the backing of some rich benefactor? Advertising? I don't think so. The unions? Kiss of death, and a propaganda tool for the Tories.

I'm depressing myself here.

No it's not soft enough to wipe my precious bottom on.

Thank you for this Anni.
But I am so saddened and disappointed by some of the comments above.
So sad that it's still so "fashionable' for people who think they are intellectual to sneer at popular papers that have an important part in the democratic process.
I suppose people who think they are "clever" are happy just going to stand back smugly while the only paper to represent the Left gets decimated?
I am so sorry that people in this country take for granted the choice of papers we have in this country.
It's partly what makes Britain interesting - and the fact that there there is a always a place where wrongdoing can be exposed and investigated is what us the country we are.
Maybe the people above will be satisfied when the press is free and filled with advertorials and press releases - because that is the way we are heading.
Soon it will be gone

So , what is to be done? If we all go out and buy the Mirror will that help? Or will we just be putting more money into Ms Bailey's bank account?

"It gave us the dynamic and radical journalism of ... Alastair Campbell and Piers Morgan."

WTF?

How can it have lost its importance if it's the ONLY Labour supporting paper i the UK.
Did you actually even pick it up even ONCE - or read Paul Routledge's column or Kevin Maguire's leaders.
Sorry, but I thought there would be some intelligent, informed debate here.
The reason you are sneering it because you think you're above it all. The Mirror is not aimed at you.

The Mirror is a great paper and one I trust totally in reporting any political truths out there when all Murdoch media would lie through their teeth! Sly Bailey should be kicked to the kerb! Sly is going to take away our democratic right to read what has always been an honest and shoot from the hip newspaper and we need journalists like those that write for The Mirror. Has she been bought by Murdoch? Seems he wants to control everything we see and hear and by the sounds of it she is no better than him. SLY BAILEY TO GO!!!!

While there soon wont be any reporters or feature writers left on the Mirror, I note that both Sly Bailey and editor Richard Wallace will still retain their personal drivers/chauffeurs.
Maybe they should try some public transport and save the job of a journalist who could keep the Mirror a decent, newsgathering paper.

While many will snigger and sneer at the red top cover of the Mirror, it infact isn't of the low standards of the downmarket rightwing newspapers like the Sun and Daily Star.

I read the Mirror, generally between 5-7 a week, and I'm a Labour member. I find it frustrating when people will repeatedly criticise the Mirror. I read it because 1) It is a loyal Labour paper, the only one that stood by Labour and the only one that will continue to be a voice and a side against the right wing pocket of Murdoch, 2) Because it isn't a heavy read, and can generally be read by all sections of society, allowing to convey the message in an easier way and 3) what many may believe is absent, the Mirror, contains many interesting and honest columnists, that speak the voice of many working class people across the country and stands up for fairness and progressive policies in this country.