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

Need to start a fund to pay into if this does kick off.

Fantastic!!!!

Can anyone else hear the DamBusters music ??

Wow!!! you lot are fab, the hairs on the back of my neck are standing up.

Well done to all those MN who emailed etc yesterday, hope MN towers are a bit better this morning.

Furball - FAB PICTURE !!!

PMSL at the Daily Mail today - 'The baby guru who threw her toys out of the pram' and a box headed 'Ford's Formula'. Hysterical! Do you think her PR team tried to tell her gunning for mothers could just possibly backfire, at all?

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Er I wonder whether this is a good idea or not but should someone start a thread listing links to all the articles? Just for ease of reference were any other journalists to want to read them? I'm a bit scared to!

gobsmacked doesnt even cover it really does it. So if people were to discuss certain things in a cafe etc would this be a certain voldermorts reply to banish free thinking?

This is from nobody's non-website:

"Users/Members are reminded that where NAME REMOVED makes at any time chatrooms and forums available to users/Members, these are for public discussion. Any personal information supplied by users/Members during these discussions is widely accessible. NAME REMOVED is not responsible for the content posted by users/Members using such services."

So, how then can our cherished Mumsnet be responsible?

I think you have all done a great job here. Some of the press articles are just classic. Did you ever think you'd be being quoted in the national press morningpaper?

Only just saw the 'blue box'

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to see the papers are reporting it! Not a great reflection on...

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beautifully put Freckle, couldn't agree more

Just heard it on Radio 4 Today prog - well done all you PR campaigners, Just shows how important this online community is, and how fast we can mobilise when necessary.

My dh said to me last night "it can't be that big a story, it's not anywhere on google". ha. how I shall gloat now! But will publicising this be enough to save mn? Just because it's public knowledge that a site is being threatened with closure because of these views, doesn't mean it'll stop the lawyers taking action surely? I think it's great btw that this is all in the papers, but I think we should be careful and not be too complacent in thinking that we've won and that nobody will back down. In fact this could make them more determined, once mn is shut down, other parenting sites will be a lot less willing to let campaigns like this stay on their sites, and the mn thing would blow over soon enough.

Not being negative, just being a a realist.

As an aside, I have started a new petition because of feedback received from hq, it's

here

Oh absolutely Freckle. It's interesting that nobody/lawyers/publishers were unavailable to comment.

As a member of the book buying public I might have to write to Random House, they have some very good authors I think. Although I ought to curb my £200 a month book habit really. Maybe this will be a good month to do it.

Again, THANK YOU to all of you who helped with this. Im jsut sorry I was so useless yesterday.

I have had tears in my eyes all morning, the newspaper reports are FAB!

WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER GIRLS!!!

LTH

I am not PG and I am filling up, come over here and blub with me.

LGJ pats seat and locates copious amounts of tissues.

Good oh! Hope she's feeling thoroughly discomforted this morning.

BTW Did anyone see the statement on BMC which said they had clarified that the methods prescribes COULD be discussed as long as personal attacks were not made. Fair enough, I think I the prescribed routines are dreadful and I would never inflict them on my baby.

I was always MOR about it before (you know - what doesn't suit me may well suit someone else) but am so disgusted by this action of it makes me doubt everything

There is a defence to an accusation of defamation of public interest. Surely it's in the public interest to know that someone putting themselves forward as an expert in a particular area objects to debate about their propositions. Anyone can write a book and state that they know what they are talking about. It's only through others reading that book and discussing it (the pros and the cons) that people can make an informed decision about its contents. If the writer objects to such discussion, it smacks of a lack of faith in what has been written. All consequent discussion has to be in the public interest, shurely.......

This is one morning when it is actually a pleasure to be out of bed at this time

Freckle, absolutely! So, hmm, let me see, the Guardian, Times, Independent, Mail and Standard have all reported this (and repeated stuff). Will they be shut down I wonder?