Agreed Effing (love your NN BTW!)
However MN also likes to position itself as reasonably ethical and a force for good - This is my child; Nestle; Let girls be girls etc. So at some stage they are going to have to have a careful think about how they balance their commercial interests, with the best interests of the posters who use the site. After all, its the posters who make the site what it is - and who draw the advertisers in and make MN the 'voice' that it has become. They are currently skating a very fine line by encouraging people to post here for advice and support, yet throwing their hands up and keeping schtum when entire and unedited posts are lifted and published in a national newspaper.
As I have said before, I think that people (reluctantly) accept that journos will lift very newsworthy or funny threads. I was here when the Riven issue exploded into the press - and as much as she didn't want the world's news on her doorstep, it was a human interest story because David Cameron had made promises that the LA were not following through on, and her DD (and the rest of her family) was sufferrng as a result. Likewise if you get a very funny thread like penis beaker, then it's not a huge surprise that a news outlet will pick it up. However I am not sure that anyone is comfortable with a thread about a child's death being used as newspaper filler. It's all very well to primly remind people not to share identifying details - how exactly does that work in a topic like bereavement?
Not sure what the answer is TBH, but I can see a day of reckoning fast approaching where MN needs to decide where it stands in relation to the media using the site for stories - and possibly changing the site to a pay on use basis to protect posters' privacy.