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The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market〔John Pilger (''Hidden Agendas'' ), London: Vintage, 1998, p.440〕〔Peter Wilby ("Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain " ), ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014)〕 tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after ''The Sun''. Its sister paper ''The Mail on Sunday'' was launched in 1982. Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The ''Daily Mail'' was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly-literate "lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks", and was the first British paper to sell a million copies a day. It was at the outset a newspaper for women, the first to provide features especially for them,〔(Newsmen speak: journalists on their craft ) Edmo nd D. Coblentz, University of California Press, 1954 p. 88〕 and as of the second-half of 2013 had a 54.77% female readership,〔 the only British newspaper whose female readers constitute more than 50% of its demographic. It had an average daily circulation of 1,708,006 copies in March 2014.〔 Between July and December 2013 it had an average daily readership of approximately 3.951 million, of whom approximately 2.503 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 1.448 million in the C2DE demographic. Its website has more than 100 million unique visitors per month. The paper has been criticised by doctors and scientists for its sensationalist reporting on medical subjects. ==Overview== The ''Mail'' was originally a broadsheet but switched to a compact format on 3 May 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding. On this date it also absorbed the ''Daily Sketch'', which had been published as a tabloid by the same company. The publisher of the ''Mail'', the Daily Mail and General Trust, is currently a FTSE 250 company and the paper has a circulation of around two million which is the fourth-largest circulation of any English language daily newspaper in the world.〔 〕 Circulation figures according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations in March 2014 show gross daily sales of 1,708,006 for the ''Daily Mail''.〔 According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of ''Daily Mail'' readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats. The main concern of Viscount Rothermere, the current chairman and main shareholder, is that the circulation be maintained. He testified before a House of Lords select committee that "we need to allow editors the freedom to edit", and therefore the newspaper's editor was free to decide editorial policy, including its political allegiance. The ''Mail'' has been edited by Paul Dacre since 1992. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daily Mail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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