To not be surprised that an emotive thread on here turns out to be a journalist fishing?

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Reading the Daily Mail (yes, I know, it's my guilty pleasure) I stumbled upon a story about a woman who has a bulimic daughter who was treated at school without her knowledge and was transferred to their GP (boarding school but day child). This rang more than a few bells as I'm sure I read a thread about this a few weeks ago on here - one which I can't find on advanced search now, where lots of people shared very personal stories and advice.

AIBU to not be that surprised? I'd like to say it shocked me, but other than feeling that nothing on this site is as it seems at the moment, it just made me feel weary and unimpressed.

And why start a thread on MN about it? If it's true, you just write it, surely

This too.

Fucking hell, what a tacky crappy thing to have done.

Although I guess that explains why the daughter didn't tell her mother.

Still, no need to worry about your CHILDS privacy if you are a journo. It's one thing to list about your own crappy issues but what the duck was she thinking writing an article about her CHILDS private business.

I posted a really thoughtful post on that thread - I wish I hadn't bothered.

That woman is a fucking blight on humanity.

Amen to that, Daddy.

If MN keeps going, in a decade or two SS is going to be ground zero of a load of threads in Relationships.

Wow! No wonder her daughter confided in her school rather than her mother (who has form for writing DM articles on any issue that pops up in the family, regardless of how damaging it could be to the individual family members).

Doubly bad that the woman came on here to get MNers to share personal info and provide material for her

I posted on that, didn't follow it up or see the article. Mumsnet is depressing lately.

She's a leech. I hope her kids tell her to fuck off.

And what mitzy said ^^

Sadly there a many journalists that use their children/families in the way. The telegraph is stuffed with them.
Not to mention living with teenagers debacle in the guardian.

How would you know whether a journo was fishing or googling and nicking a story from here? It's a very sordid little chicken and its egg situation.

I've been on blogs in the morning whose topics end up 'trending' later in the day, which seems to hapoen quite often.

I think there is a difference between journalists talking generally about their family life, or with their very young children, and older, more aware children and teens with real, independent lives and problems of their own, which shouldn't be exploited.

The majority of toddler articles are interchangeably anonymous in a way.

Absolutely classic that her poor dd didn't tell her. Perhaps she didn't fancy being an article in the mail? Hopefully she'll sue her when she gets to 18.

I just spotted another one that smells like a fishing expedition to me. it happens a lot, I think.

I thought kids were given confidentiality in the press? Turns out not when they are the 'journalists' kids.

Ugh, what a piece of human garbage using her daughter that way. No wonder she wants some fucking privacy from her mother.

God, that's awful! What a terrible breach of confidentiality for her kids. Imagine having your life plastered all over the press like that. No wonder the poor girl's got bulimia

She'll probably follow the eldest to Magaluf ASAP.

Would you tell her if she was your mother ?
Somethings you want to keep private not splashed over a newspaper

Urgh, what an absolutely piss-poor example of parenting.

I think the thread was deleted because a very clever MNer took the poster name and found another article in the Dm written by that name confessing to a crime.
I always feel quite clever if I spot a DM story which is the same as a thread on here!

Did you see them on tv? The poor daughter seemed to be looking at the presenters with a "help me" expression. She looked utterly fed up and her mum wouldn't let her get a word in.

All I could think was "no wonder she didn't bloody tell you!"

It's so unethical of the TV programmes to collude with Leech Mum.

I heard her being interviewed by Vanessa Feltz, who didn't see fit to mention that she was a journalist till very close to the end of the interview. I was severely tempted to phone in and ask whether she thought that maybe her daughter didn't tell her because she didn't fancy being plastered all over the Daily Mail, but strangely they weren't taking calls.

Yeah but it's that woman again!

She's paraded her kids in public and all their ishoooos since they were tiny , including " I can't afford my kids" " I will only pay to privately educated my girls and the boy can go to the sink state school" etc etc

So I'm afraid I'm really not surprised that her poor daughter has got an eating disorder , or, that a perfectly fraser competent 14/15yr old with a mother who washes her dirty linen in pubic would not tell her mum and would choose to move GPs away from the ones mother may have influence and knowledge of. Teens are allowed, as long as there is no abuse , to keep things confidential from parents.