GB news treated this mum badly, when she is trying ti raise £1.5 million to send her son to Stanford

She’s raised £1.3m, the US hospital has agreed to set the operation date, why does this still need publicity?

She hasn’t said how much is going to the hospital and how much on expenses.

Why are you asking me what im Doing for a child I’ve never met?

All im saying is would it kill her to thank the people who have donated huge huge amounts of money purely so her child can have an operation? Rather than just continuing to as for more and more ? She’s clearly on her phone a lot so how long does it take for her to say ‘huge shout out to x y z for their massive (hundreds of thousands of pounds donations) before or after her ‘please donate to Olly please we need to get more money so we can go to America, please donate everything you can, everything helps’

Your comment says far more about you, thinking of ways to bring left or right wing politics into this whilst many others are rallying regardless of their political views to help get a baby to where he needs to be

Why are you asking me what im Doing for a child I’ve never met?

All im saying is would it kill her to thank the people who have donated huge huge amounts of money purely so her child can have an operation? Rather than just continuing to as for more and more ? She’s clearly on her phone a lot so how long does it take for her to say ‘huge shout out to x y z for their massive (hundreds of thousands of pounds donations) before or after her ‘please donate to Olly please we need to get more money so we can go to America, please donate everything you can, everything helps’

The £1.5m isn't the cost of the surgery, it's the 'total fundraising goal'.

The hospital wouldn't set a date unless they have been paid.

So why tell her they were going to cover this one in the first place?

Don’t be cruel. She expects the public to cough up is the whole point of raising money so not exactly hiding her motive is she? She’s fighting for her child’s life and has quite impressively raised close to a million what are you doing?

Because they have to have raised the full amount before they go. The hospital has simply agreed to set the date, it can't actually go ahead without the extra funds.

How do you know that happened? The Op has admitted she posted the thread to get around the rules around not being able to post links to Go Fund Me.

She’s raised £1.3m, the US hospital has agreed to set the operation date, why does this still need publicity?

She hasn’t said how much is going to the hospital and how much on expenses.

The real question is why she has to take her child overseas for medical care when the NHS drains so much money from taxpayers. There is no money shortage in the NHS. It’s just spent inappropriately.

It seems odd you're picking on GB news for this. Every newsroom in the world has to change schedules around. Stories, interviews, people get rearranged or dropped. Quite honestly, a 50 minute wait doesn't sound like much, and she could go elsewhere after. It's just a reality of a constantly changing, busy news environment. It's highly unlikely there was anything malicious in it.

And for the record, I don't watch it.

If something more important came up then why not just send her a message saying sorry, we have had to change the schedule. Instead of leaving her in the waiting room for an hour, then cutting the link with no explanation.

So why tell her they were going to cover this one in the first place?

Don’t be cruel. She expects the public to cough up is the whole point of raising money so not exactly hiding her motive is she? She’s fighting for her child’s life and has quite impressively raised close to a million what are you doing?

She has my sympathies but, to be brutally honest, there are far bigger stories and tragedies in the world that need covering, many of which we rarely hear about. A major news channel has to be ready and able to adapt to ongoing events.

Your comment says far more about you, thinking of ways to bring left or right wing politics into this whilst many others are rallying regardless of their political views to help get a baby to where he needs to be

Yeah exactly. Constantly trying to get more and more donations whilst never actually saying ‘wow guys thank you so much for x person for donating 100k x2’ seems like she just expects the public to cough up for her kids surgery.

Yeah exactly. Constantly trying to get more and more donations whilst never actually saying ‘wow guys thank you so much for x person for donating 100k x2’ seems like she just expects the public to cough up for her kids surgery.

Plus the US hospital are setting the date of the operation now so not sure what more publicity is needed.

there are far bigger stories and tragedies in the world that need covering, many of which we rarely hear about

that has far more to do with how news is purchased and due to news making money - journalism has changed dramatically over the last 50 years to a cash cow rather than news giving