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[babyfloof]

I hope this isn't seen as a TAAT, but I've noticed on some threads a poster or the OP will declare "Daily Mail can fuck off" or something similar.

Does this actually stop them picking up the thread or comment for them to publish? is it a legal statement or does it just deter journalists from picking it up as it's slating their paper.

I've always wondered as I would assume anything published here is for public viewing regardless of if you think these types of news outlet are right or wrong for running a thread as a story. --

It’s harder to screenshot if it has curses in it. And yes, they really are that lazy that they post screenshots rather than typing the posts out again. Fuckers.

Oh so it's more about the curse words than the fact they are slagging the paper off.

I've seen screen shots before, along with them typing out what people have commented. Talk about padding out the article.

Well, a bit of both probably! I read your username first as baby-foof, which they probably wouldn’t want to print either!

@Tunnockswafer shame that....

The Daily Mail is unfairly targeted.. All media sources garner information and stories from the internee including chT forums.

It's not lazy journalism, it's the modern way to collect stories from the public that would make fir entertainment for their readership.

More cost effective than sending a roving reporter out on a bus to towns in the hope of overhearing something of interest.

Well here’s an idea. The journalist reads the story on mumsnet and then contacts the posters to get more detail on their opinions and their bloody permission while they’re at it.
It’s not the the laziness that actually bothers me but the lack of any moral compass - the stories that aren’t just a bit of a laugh but really hurt the posters (and are unique so clearly identifying). They don’t give a shit.