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

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MikeRafone · 03/11/2025 20:53

There is a mum trying to raise money to send her son to Stanford for heart surgery
The mum has been doing tv and radio plugs, which has elped

this morning GB news told her not to do anymore interviews and held her waiting in a virtual room for an interview for 50 minutes and then just dropped her - she had the opportunity for another interview but due to this couldn't do it

GB "new" are unreasonable to just leave her like this hanging on after telling her they wanted no other coverage and she could have worked today with another tv or radio show to get coverage to help funds. Its a bad way to treat someone

this money has a time frame as the child is on palliative care and its a case of waiting until the moneys raised and then he can be flown out

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nomas · 04/11/2025 07:39

AmyDuPlantier · 04/11/2025 07:32

Plus this thread is just an incredibly naked attempt at getting more donations.

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

AmyDuPlantier · 04/11/2025 07:32

nomas · 04/11/2025 07:27

Agreed. Plus Ollie’s mum has already been on GB News.

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Plus this thread is just an incredibly naked attempt at getting more donations.

Toto0 · 04/11/2025 07:32

fairly standard for human interest type stories like that to be held and then bumped regardless of network. Poor form for them if it happened as described for them not to have explained to her though before (that it might be a possibility) or after

zazazaaar · 04/11/2025 07:29

WildLimePoet · 03/11/2025 21:09

Is this some convoluted way of having a go at GB news to satisfy your far left resentment of anyone who thinks differently to you?

You don't need to be far left to see that GB news is propaganda for the far right.
Those of us who are centrists can see right through its hate filled bile as well.

nomas · 04/11/2025 07:27

AmyDuPlantier · 04/11/2025 07:18

An ill little boy isn’t really national news though is it? You can’t really be offended by a news channel wanting to make money when you only went on there to generate money.

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Agreed. Plus Ollie’s mum has already been on GB News.

AmyDuPlantier · 04/11/2025 07:18

MikeRafone · 04/11/2025 07:08

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

An ill little boy isn’t really national news though is it? You can’t really be offended by a news channel wanting to make money when you only went on there to generate money.

Friendlyfart · 04/11/2025 07:18

I’m no fan of GB News but news happens, maybe a big news story broke so they had to stop hers. There’s been a few in the past week!!

mamagogo1 · 04/11/2025 07:12

To those criticising the NHS, it isn’t a case of won’t do the operation it’s a case of can’t, it’s an experimental procedure only Stanford is doing, only a single surgeon. He actually needs two procedures and the second one is available here.

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MikeRafone · 04/11/2025 07:10

StElwicksNeighbourhoodAssociation · 03/11/2025 23:17

I may be wrong but I think it's against MN guidelines to post links to fundraising sites but if you post what words to google that's ok.

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exactly....;)

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MikeRafone · 04/11/2025 07:08

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

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MikeRafone · 04/11/2025 07:05

Lastfroginthebox · 04/11/2025 03:51

Maybe the NHS have weighed up the costs and benefits of this surgery and unfortunately it would not be an appropriate use of funds? It may sound harsh but there have to be limits to what they can offer.

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The NHS can't do the operation, it's not a case of they won't, but can't. If the operation goes ahead in Stanford, then the NHS are able to do stage 2

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Ohmygodthepain · 04/11/2025 06:58

I was once bumped off news at 10 because other more important stuff was going on in the world that meant the article I was supposed to be in was cut almost entirely. It happens.

CosySeason · 04/11/2025 06:30

Tv interview can and will be pulled with no notice unfortunately. That’s live tv for you.

Twinkletoes8474 · 04/11/2025 06:27

My DH sometimes gets asked to give short interviews on news channels because of his job. He often declines because most of it is waiting around and it’s common for your slot to be cut right down or cancelled. So while unfortunate for this lady it sounds very normal to me

Lastfroginthebox · 04/11/2025 03:51

FreyjaOfTheNorth · 04/11/2025 03:41

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.

Maybe the NHS have weighed up the costs and benefits of this surgery and unfortunately it would not be an appropriate use of funds? It may sound harsh but there have to be limits to what they can offer.

Lastfroginthebox · 04/11/2025 03:48

Brassknucks · 03/11/2025 22:09

I saw this earlier. They (GB news) asked her to not do any other interviews prior and when she was waiting to be interviewed they simply cut her off and didn’t do the interview.
Poor little lad needs the donations. Fuck absolutely anyone who’d treat a mother desperately trying to get her child medical treatment that way.

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.

FreyjaOfTheNorth · 04/11/2025 03:41

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.

hattie43 · 04/11/2025 03:00

FullOfMomsense · 04/11/2025 01:42

GB News is run and loved by nasty far right reform voters who want to privatise the NHS, so it's not a suprise they had no sympathy for a young mum of a disabled and poorly baby.

Anyone still watching their channel is actively contributing to reform trying to force children like Ollie to have no access to healthcare.

What rubbish

FullOfMomsense · 04/11/2025 01:42

GB News is run and loved by nasty far right reform voters who want to privatise the NHS, so it's not a suprise they had no sympathy for a young mum of a disabled and poorly baby.

Anyone still watching their channel is actively contributing to reform trying to force children like Ollie to have no access to healthcare.

hattie43 · 04/11/2025 01:38

Greggsit · 03/11/2025 22:04

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.

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This .

Doubt it’s anything personal and a scheduling issue .

Comefromaway · 03/11/2025 23:46

Yes, schedules change. But they’d banned her from doing other interviews then just cut her off in the virtual waiting room after she’d been waiting nearly an hour. No communicatuon, simply cut the link.

Realrobin · 03/11/2025 23:34

Weird thread

nomas · 03/11/2025 23:25

I imagine they couldn’t make time in their schedule. It happens, even to horrible channels like GBN.

StElwicksNeighbourhoodAssociation · 03/11/2025 23:17

BluntPlumHam · 03/11/2025 22:36

Op, post the link for anyone who’d like to donate. Shame on GB News but then im
not surprised something like this wouldn’t be prioritised by them given the usual output they have.

I may be wrong but I think it's against MN guidelines to post links to fundraising sites but if you post what words to google that's ok.

BluntPlumHam · 03/11/2025 22:36

Op, post the link for anyone who’d like to donate. Shame on GB News but then im
not surprised something like this wouldn’t be prioritised by them given the usual output they have.

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