The MN Mail Column - what we think, and what we plan to do next... part 3

Old threads have ALWAYS been randomly rescuscitated on and off on MN. Maybe people search topics and then post on the threads. It's happened loads of times that a great hoo ha will be going on (or even a mundane chat) and then someone will say 'hang on this is an old thread').

LOL at bumping conspiracy theories!

I am pretty sure that BadgersArse is neither LH nor a 'crony' of LH's, * and that there is plenty to write about in any one week on MN without reviving non-controversial threads.

Is this all getting a bit overthought and overwrought?

• because BadgersArse is also v recognisable, as someone completely different.

have you notice that thread in AIBU that has suddenly come back to life, it has been dead since april, concerns sn

God I hope its not LH been bumping- one of the bumped threads was a bit upsetting for DM use

Though I do think they will stick to their no SN and no relationships promise

If they don't I will go and protrest naked outside thir office

And they REALLY dont want that

So come on MNHQ - any word on why today's column was pulled?

This weeks column is rubbish.

Wouldn't make me want to join MN.

The DM is really annoying me or rather LH is.

lol

Yes I am advertising to passing pilots

yum yum

Is that your house MP?

'Come get it here!'

I don't mind. AND I actually apreciate the role the Mail plays in us maintaining a healthy democracy. Go LH, or whatever you go by these days

Please would you publically humilate Rod Liddle though by making reference to this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/804949-Rod-Liddle-the-original-cripple-dick-and-oh-the-irony?addwat ch=1

LH's personal loveliness isn't really the issue here though is it?

I'd hazard a guess that even Mother Theresa wouldn't have been given a hearty round of applause by a lot of MNers for producing the weekly column in question.

lolol

I heard they did this to the Daily Mail offices

sorry MNHQ protest here

MNHQ would like to apologise for not wearing Boden or Joules but instead choosing Bon Marche.

Was thinking more likely just a friend doing her a favour. But this is too much idle speculation really.

I'd prefer to think it's been pulled because Justine and Carrie have staged a protest on the roof of the Associated Newspapers offices. Their banners read: Hoot your horn if you want to.

that could be right but it suggests that the person who bumped the thread is LH or someone who works for the DM and that just seems a bit underhand.

beanieb - "I wonder if it's because she actually wrote a few of the columns weeks ago and gave them all to the DM as an idea and they are just running them now?"

This seems like quite a likely explanation to me too. The column was probably put together before the agreement was put in place not to use old threads. So rather than scrap the column, the thread was bumped. Does that sound right?

I'm not attacking LH. I'm sure she's perfectly lovely and a very fine journalist under normal circumstances. But even she must know the column is rubbish (and not so much "this week on mumsnet" but "four months ago on mumsnet")

Pityssake - I don't think anyone is attacking her tbh.

Is it her you liked or her online persona?

they definitely lifted the quote "There is an element of parental torture in every family holiday, I think" from the April thread though, that's how I found it, by searching 'parental torture'.

I also searched something about "red Leicester cheese" but couldn't find anything. xx

are oyu lot STILl on this

please can we NOT attack LH
i love her.

I definitely don't like this bumping of old posts to make it seem like we were discussing it this week. It seems very underhand and devious, surely that means they are trawling through the archives to get the quotes and stories they want which MNHQ said they weren't going to do.

So why have they taken down the article then? What was it about?

hey beanie

Zephirine - well my DoD just says error now but I think it was this one - its kind of the same thing I thought, about holidays being tiring and not much of a break for the mum when you have small children.