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Since when did this appear at the bottom of each thread?

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hulababy · 06/08/2006 22:10

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It is with great regret that we have to ask members to refrain from any further discussion of Gina Ford, her methods or her books on the site. To find out why click here. We'd be very grateful if members could report any mentions of Gina Ford using the "contact Mumsnet" facility (the little red exclamation mark to the right of each posting). Many thanks. MNHQ. "

Never seen it before.

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expatinscotland · 07/08/2006 16:28

Hmm. But it's a British board w/British character, thankfully.

Someone's got to take a stand on this! This is getting mental!

jabberwocky · 07/08/2006 16:26

This may not be a workable idea, but couldn't MN host from the US where it has more protection from things such as this?

SlightlyFamiliarPeachyClair · 07/08/2006 16:23

Junior magazine
Pregnancy & Baby magazine
Daily Mail
Times
The Guardian
The Mirror
The Sun
ITN
BBC
5 Live
LBC!
The Answer Bank
Private Eye
David Cameron MP
India Knight
Decca Aitkenhead
BMC
Bounty
Babyworld
The Independent
Western Daily Press
Daily Express
Baby Centre
Pampers
Mothercare
Mumsonline
Netmums
Ivillage
Realworldparenting
BBC London
BBC Essex
Daily Record
The Scotsman
Metro Radio
Boots parenting forum
Labour Party
NY Times
USA Today
Today (US prog.)
RaisingKids
Daily Mail Scotland
Robert Winston Smith
Ian Liddell Grainger, MP
Ken Livingstone (worth a shot LOL)
Boris Johnson (PMSL.....)
Prima Baby
Mark Thomas
New Statesman
Practical Parenting

AvaLou · 07/08/2006 16:18

Oh, but of those I have emailed take a break & womans own, can't remember the names of anymore.
I have also emailed 'real ' magazine, who do write articles on parenting issues occasionally.

ChappaEye · 07/08/2006 16:17

Heat mag.

Mercy · 07/08/2006 16:17

Oh yes of course - we need to add nobody to the list!

AvaLou · 07/08/2006 16:16

Evening Standard
The Week

All those weekly womens mags who will print just bout anything, i.e take a break, womans own(worth a try!)

MrsRichardHammond · 07/08/2006 16:13

ive emailed the lady in question

Mercy · 07/08/2006 16:13

OK, so far

Junior magazine
Pregnancy & Baby magazine
Daily Mail
Times
The Guardian
The Mirror
The Sun
ITN
BBC
5 Live
LBC!
The Answer Bank
Private Eye
David Cameron MP
India Knight
Decca Aitkenhead
BMC
Bounty
Babyworld
The Independent
Western Daily Press
Daily Express
Baby Centre
Pampers
Mothercare
Mumsonline
Netmums
Ivillage
Realworldparenting
BBC London
BBC Essex
Daily Record
The Scotsman
Metro Radio
Boots parenting forum
Labour Party
NY Times
USA Today
Today (US prog.)
RaisingKids
Daily Mail Scotland

Any more?

AvaLou · 07/08/2006 16:11

Hmm very true, my OH writes letters and emails on behalf of his MD, but they have to be passed to audio typists, then to the M.D's P.A, then to his 'approval team' before being sent out, which takes ages even for very urgent letters.

Astrophe · 07/08/2006 16:09

her book still has an overall rating of 4 stars on amazon...now... what can we do about that ladies?

You all must promise to post as soon as you see ANYTHING in the paper/hear the radio tomorrow...I can't wait!

dilEmma · 07/08/2006 16:08

Surely Ann Clough from CLB IS Ms Fd? obvious innit? She seems allowed to email without running it past anyone. Or no-one

Pat · 07/08/2006 16:05

So cross about all of this
Another recommendation for a journalist to contact is Cassandra Jardine at The Telegraph who writes articles on family matters.

AvaLou · 07/08/2006 16:05

Like I posted on Bounty - I assume they cannot ban any mention of her name, but it is the defamatory and personal comments that they have issue with, and given their treatemnt so far the owners of mumsnet have placed a blanket ban on any mention just to be on the safe side. If it is anything like Bounty on here, then even a postive thread will end up with many posts that are abusive/ negative.

edam · 07/08/2006 16:04

Funnily enough her solicitor's website was down when I tried to visit - wonder if it's crashed because scores of outraged parents are trying to get in touch?

MrsRichardHammond · 07/08/2006 16:02

apparently (according to her people) they're not starting legal action against anyone (even though as can be seen in my email i never asked about that!) and they're not impeeding our right to discuss her.

JoshuaandChloesmummy · 07/08/2006 16:01

Ive emailed someone a bit more info about this, and he/she/them is 'dying laughing at lawyers' objection to the comment about rockets and the Lebanon!'

JessaJam · 07/08/2006 16:00

In which case Piffle...maybe they have monitored this thread and will soon be considering whether to be litigious about being accused of being litigious!!!!!

Piffle · 07/08/2006 15:53

I used to work in media monitoring as a media monitor. Naomi CAmpbell and Michael Winner were both keen litigious types who threatened over teensy little things.

AvaLou · 07/08/2006 15:51

Ken Livingstones probably too busy making sure carol thatcher or alan sugar don't get elected over him, snigger.

MrsRichardHammond · 07/08/2006 15:50

Anyone contacted Channel 4?

Freckle · 07/08/2006 15:49

If you want campaigning journalists, then you can't do better than Mark Thomas. He's great at this sort of thing. Really took on Nestle at their shareholders' meeting and raised the issues on television.

SlightlyFamiliarPeachyClair · 07/08/2006 15:49

I used to work for a charity that paid to have their name watched by a company too, it's usual nowadays

Contacted ken Livingstone yet then?????

Doen the parenting mags

Phew!!!!!!!!!!

aitch71 · 07/08/2006 15:46

better delete mine too, then...

AvaLou · 07/08/2006 15:46

She will amost certainly have 'media monitoring' on her name, I used to do it for Ken Livingstone and we had to archive every single mention of him in the press, and on 'significant' websites. In the lead up to the Mayoral election this was expanded to include even personal blogs. I would assume noone has a team in full force doing this now.

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