AIBU to think The Wright Stuff should stop getting their stories from mumsnet?

[sameoldIggi]

I see once again TWS is going to tackle breast feeding - this time with the angle of can you bf in a swimming pool. Strangely, the subject of a thread on here the other day.

I've seen so many discussion topics on there that seem to mirror ones on here - only discussed in a lot less sensible fashion, usually!
Obviously we talk about things on here that are sometimes in the news, so any tv programme has equal access to those stories. But i think more than coincidence is at play here.
So, should they stop borrowing our stuff? Or should we be pleased our discussions are so interesting that we are being copied, albeit in a much more shallow way?

I don't understand - I saw the breastfeeding story in a couple of papers before it was discussed here?

But it has also been all over the news. It would not be a topic on Mumsnet if someone didn't read about it first in the news. Don't see the connection myself.

It was on the news way before it was on here... Infact unless there have been a few instances recently (?) it was on the news a good few weeks ago!

Yes, YABU.

There has been another one gilly

I notice this a lot, and just last week again too. Can't remember exactly which subject but it was a week ago but one that Anne Diamond brought up. YANBU.

TWS introduced me to Mumsnet when they did their discussion on 'should you put tights on a baby boy' which they nabbed off here but at least they said they did.

It is probably more how the issues are discussed on TWS that bothers me, rather than the fact that they got them here. (If they did)
I suppose I have got used to the level of debate on mumsnet and some of the crap you hear from the panel or the phone-ins just rankles.

They are discussing it now.

It was actually a thread on netmums. It didn't start here.

Good grief I am agreeing with the comments. Probably because Matthew wasn't there.

It's not 'our' stuff. It's stuff that MNetters have read in the papers and put on here because they want to discuss it.

The Wright Stuff look on here to see what topics are popular. Seems more sensible than picking a subject cold and then sitting around waiting for the phones to ring.

Fair enough, but why then slag us off?

don't see what the problem is, personally...

current affairs and discussion shows have to mine media/social media to see what people are talking about and mn is a fairly reliable indicator of what mums are talking about.

No-one "owns" or has exclusive rights to issues in the news.

Also as others have pointed out I'm pretty sure that story was in the papers before it appeared on here.

Probably because it amuses them

I tend to ignore the Wright Stuff. More often than not I find it a pile of tripe and I just find Matthew so smarmy and know it all.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1400839-To-think-that-if-you-have-a-clock-on-the-mantlepiece-it-needs-to-go-in-the-middle

This was discussed on TWS

Now that's what I call breaking news

I missed this, what did they say...presumably they thought it was wrong/yuck/unhygienic...yada yada.

Did anyone actually point out that the woman has a legal right to bfeed her baby and that includes in the pool

There have been a few of these stories recently and tho its annoying I think its right to highlight shitty attitudes to bfeeding and people need to be educated that legally a woman has the right t bfeed anywhere she is allowed with her baby.

I ignore the Wright Stuff - the Daily Mail in televisual form.

However, surely MNers are up to teh challenge. If they are truely gleaning their stories from here (lazy researchers, naughty!) then why do we not come up with the things we want them to talk about? I'm certain this nest of vipers can come up with the true issues of the day?!

I just looked on the wright stuff fb page....bad idea!

Tbh, it makes a lot of sense, like limitedperiod said, and they've also gleaned topic ideas from NetMums too. I don't see the problem, it's a public forum, and the sure they have a 'good' show (I don't like it though), you need to go with topics currently in the public interest.

How is it any different from MN talking about TV shows?

5madthings, it wasn't bad today - there was one youngish woman on the panel who was very positive, and the woman who does the phones made the "who would eat their dinner in a toilet?" comment. Anne Diamond said the law was on the side of the woman in the pool, and mentioned the Equality Act. Much better than the convos I heard when MW has been hosting.
I accept the consensus is that I'm being unreasonable! Though if a lot of good ideas for the show come from websites like that, I still think he is cheeky to then slag us off.

Matthew Wright is a daytime Television god bestriding the airwaves to deliver brilliant programes across the known universe.

I suspect he's also incredibly well hung too.

I personally dont think mathew wright hates MN i think he just likes pretending. You can see that most of the time he says things in a tongue in cheek manor.