I kind of agree with you, but also with the parent - because it's no longer pretending to be a red top.

Very soon after El Reg was bought by the Daily Mail, there was a very noticeable change in the writing. It had always been snarky and sarcastic, but in amusing way - afterwards it was snarky and sarcastic, but in a kind of hateful, "fake outrage", unmistakable Daily Mail kind of way.

I'd read El Reg almost every day for a decade before the Dailly Mail bought them, but I just couldn't stand it afterwards. A real shame.