AIBU to ask if you all get pm's from the press in relation to posts you have posted

[marriedinwhite]

Have now been tapped up by the Beeb, the Evening Standard and today Times 2 because of threads I have posted. This has been in about the last 18 months. Do they pm you too and ask for interviews or comments?

I thought that using PMs for this purpose was strictly against MN rules? I'm v surprised to hear of "respectable" journalists doing it.

No. But I'd like to go on record as saying I am shocked and saddened. About most things.

Never.

But have you alerted MNHQ to this? Journalists aren't supposed to use the PM function for this purpose.

Nope Lol

How do they know whose telling the truth about their lives and who isn't anyway?

I could do a good sad picture

I have once a couple of months ago but only that one time.

I've never had a PM from anyone

I reported the one asking for a relationship though

I could totally see usual giving sad face whilst clutching a peg bag

I could point at my washing line

I was totally fascinated by the clothes peg thread.

none. i must be even more boring than i thought.

Charlton I've broken your PM virginity

Yes MarySA, but whose post did you like the most?

There's a fierce competition brewing here

Where you in the pegs on or off camp?

I've only ever had one PM and that was someone telling me sleb gossip I because I couldn't work out who they were talking about in the thread.
Clearly I need to up my game, how do I get a piece of this peg bag action?

Yes, a couple of times (under various names). National newspapers but I can't remember which ones, or what about!

I've also received spam resulting from things I've said - e.g. after a question I asked once on S&B about makeup, someone who sells Avon popped up and started the hard sell about various wonder products. I always report those.

I got one from the Times who were doing an article of whether mothers who continued to work were less depressed and had picked up on comments I had made on one of the many a WOHM vs SAHM thread.

No-I am always overcome if anyone takes any notice at all!

I got one once about some dentistry article. I ignored it.

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Yes, I am constantly not giving interviews about my young thrusting cucumbers.

Journalists are not allowed to contact posters by PM. MNHQ have repeatedly asked that all such approaches are reported to them.

Nope - never. Perhaps i am just a bit too dull/not controversial enough and dont live in London! MN must be a godsend to journos now i have thought about it!!

No, but I only look at my messages every couple of months. Just checked, none there. I've twice given interviews to the press and had my sentences changed to alter the meaning of what I said so would stay clear of journalists. The truth is rarely sensational or exciting enough for them.