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.

journalisted.com/shona-sibary?allarticles=yes

This is the article I remember seeing discussed on MN and we said it was very unfair on the kids at the time

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1332846/Take-girls-private-school-Id-starve.html

It was a bad decision to delete the thread, imo.

Especially since she was tweeting about being trolled. She clearly tested the story here. Which suggests it either made up or embellished quite a bit.

To say she wrote an article suggesting mn makes people commit suicide ( the DM later made a correction regarding that), she seems to rely on us quite a lot.

I doubt The Wright Stuff could keep going without stories from MN and I think many journalists use this forum. It seems a very lazy way of getting stories.

My god, her poor, poor daughter. Breaching medical confidentiality for a minor - surely that's an offence?

Poor child.

I always thought most journos who use us as a source lift other people's threads rather than writing their own story and fishing for others' experience.

OMG that article.

It's like a 101 of how to make your child's eating disorder all about you.

And absolutely the first thing you do when you find out your child has an eating disorder is to splash it all over the papers and take her on This Morning.

I'd like to thing her daughter had an element of choice over that. Something tells me she probably didn't.

I've never heard of this woman but I remember that thread and, as I remember, the majority of posters were supportive of the school and the GP. I can't imagine why she's got through 14 au pairs in as many years and WTF with the frocks and heels?!

I've long thought that the way she trots out some offensive article about her family every time she's short of a few quid is actually abusive. They must utterly dread going into school the day after one of her articles has come out. And then she's surprised when her expensively educated oldest child packs in school in favour of leaving home and working abroad.