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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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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.

TempestTost · 03/11/2025 22:06

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.

OP, it's really not at all clear what happened here or why. But anyone who has worked with tv knows it's extremely changeable on short notice, even when it's not live broadcasts.

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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MikeRafone · 03/11/2025 21:50

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?

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

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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?

Ifailed · 03/11/2025 20:55

It's the far right, what do you expect?

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