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Oh Mumsnet you bunch of racketeers, you have upset Nick Cohen in the Spectator

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UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 24/12/2013 09:49

Sorry if someone has already started a thread about this already.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/nick-cohen/2013/12/the-mumsnet-racketeers/

You wouldn't pay the poor man.

FWIW I think you were fair - you stated your policy, he was free to take it or leave it.

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Trills · 24/12/2013 10:12

He can say no, but he can also say that he disapproves of the whole thing, not just for himself but on principle.

If someone offers me a fur coat for £100, I can say no I don't want to buy that. But I could also, if I wished, express the opinion that fur coats are wrong in general and that nobody should be selling them. And other people could disagree and say that they think it's fine to make and sell fur coats. It's a conversation point.

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 24/12/2013 10:10

It's really simple. He can say no if he doesn't want to do it.

Trills · 24/12/2013 10:08

It's definitely the time of year when journalists bring out all of the things that they've written earlier but that got shelved in favour of something more interesting more topical.

TheDoctrineOfSanta · 24/12/2013 10:06

He's missed the point, surely? He wasn't being charged, MN approached him - I'm sure if those with a new book to promote ask MN for a web chat, they are happy to pay for it as they would for a web ad or a reading club placement (free books given away etc)

GodRestTEEMerryGenTEEmen · 24/12/2013 10:05

Now it works.

And he has a point.

But so does Mumsnet.

Gladvent · 24/12/2013 10:01

Sorry I started to read it but it turned into whine whine whine. How rude to cut and paste Rowan's email!

BarbaraWoodlouse · 24/12/2013 09:59

blogs.spectator.co.uk/nick-cohen/2013/12/the-mumsnet-racketeers/

I couldn't get your link to work. Trying again...

I don't have an issue with MN not paying for web chats. I admit to being a little more Hmm about charging guests for web chats without making that fact explicitly clear.

Can't help wondering if Gok paid for his mauling unsuccessful promotional activities, which would explain the fury!

GodRestTEEMerryGenTEEmen · 24/12/2013 09:56

Your link doesn't work.

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