AIBU to think the daily fail is wrong wrong wrong

[bigbelly4]

Right, I don't often post but I'm getting increasingly pissed of that posts on here are being publish in the Daily Mail. I was under the (obviously wrong) impression that we all shared a modicum of discretion.

Tbh most of it is light hearted waffle but surely the constant "mums net" headlines have the potential to stop a mum in real need posting, in fear of seeing their post published around the country.

Can we have a Daily mail topic?

Oh did it, okay. I didn't know that. Then that's probably why it was on HIGNFU.

There's me thinking you were referring to the huge article about the perfect married douple (that wouldn't accept comments) and then talking about a super curt inj**tion... that they are obssessed about.

It's certainly not news. ,it's lazy, sensationalist, and gossipy. To be frank the way that these stories are copied by the other papers just shows how desperate they are for copy. And actually I think it's verging on immoral. When the threads are quite personal it's really unfair.

Ah but I am being serious.

We accept that "it's a public forum", that "everyone has a job to do" and that I am "living in cloud cuckoo land".

as it happens, I quite like living here - I have fantastic family and friends, I'm not a Mensa candidate but I'm pretty well educated (enough to read between the lines, understand other people perspective, how the world really works) but I would like to think that I'm not arrogant enough to think that everyone will agree with me (I know this is a public forum, I know that nothing on line is secret, I know that I would prefer the world to be a lot more naive than it is).

Lazy journalism - yes it bloody is!
Boring for most to read - yes it is

An outlet for parents who are not confident - yes it is

Fucks sake. The number of threads about the Daily Mail are rising daily. Perhaps they're inclined to continue doing mumsnet-centric stories because certain people here give them so much fucking attention.

I really hope MNHQ will decide to group together the 'Daily Mail made a story out of a thread' threads. It's bloody tedious now.

Totally agree Paul.

It pays to be circumspect.

Great minds and all that Sparkling

Of course it's lazy journalism....but there's been a lot of that about for years and years.

I did summer work experience for a local newspaper years ago and when I wasn't making tea I was sorting through the post looking for snippets of copy to fill space.

That's all the Mail are doing here. There are several sites they regularly publish stuff from.....Reddit is one and Awkward Family Photos is another.

You may be anonymous on here, but you are not in private. And no amount of breast beating about "people in need of support" is going to change that. There are places to go for confidential help....MN is not one of them.

Paul
My bad for not being on here regularly enough to appreciate other people are pissed off.

I should also point out, I appreciate its not just the DM. Other "news" providers are also publishing.

lazy journalism is not just a case of the mail, nor do they just scour here for screen shotting stories, with the apparent amount of people who never read the Mail there is an awful lot of stories claiming to be disgusted whilst also enjoying the click bait articles on other sites that are also scraped from some other forum.

Trying to equate people will be put of posting here for genuine help after certain threads go viral, is putting this site on a rather large pedestal TBH.

OP fair enough if you haven't noticed the umpteen threads on it. I'd bet a few commenting here have though!

Literally the most overdone and tedious topic on mumsnet right now.

I have seen a new thread most days I think.

What you post on MN isn't private. Plus RL help is probably better than a load of random unqualified strangers on MN if you have a real problem.

Thank goodness you posted this thread op. The 15 other threads saying the exact same thing just weren't enough.

Honesty does nobody do an advanced search before posting a thread about a well known issue anymore? Lazy.

Who still reads the News papers?...seriously..

Saying that - it's probably incredibly easy to troll the DM. Give them something they want to believe.

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We should all start using this ( www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/ ) and make threads according to our results, see if any are picked up tbh. Mind I cannot think of a thread topic for my result really...maybe someone more creative?

'COULD PAEDOPHILES STEAL THE IDENTITY OF BRITAIN'S SWANS?' was my result.

Followed by 'HAS CHANNEL 4 GIVEN THE ROYAL FAMILY CANCER?'

Its surely less an issue of discretion and more an issue of social and journalistic morality. I came to Mumsnet through Penisbeaker, one of the funniest and most insightful pieces of woman to woman communication that I have ever seen. Of course it's public, of course "out there" is something that can be taken up my mainstream media. The thing I resent in the mainstream media is the lack of verisimilitude, the corruption of attitude, of posture, of truth. The Daily Mail does not have a monopoly on crap, or lazy, journalism, other money making publications are out there. So what is the point? Mumsnet brings the Mums in, to read about the emotionally moving, the intimate, the amusing the banal... we should not be surprised when the main stream media takes the line of least resistance. Clever and funny women are, unsurprisingly, clever and funny. Unreasonable? What the fuck is unreasonable? Take it, leave it, forge your own morality...

Penisbeaker, one of the funniest and most insightful pieces of woman to woman communication that I have ever seen.

Really?

But not a morality involving swans. That's far to complex for me after the two large rums and cokes that I have had.

I see your "really?" and I raise you a "wtaf??!!" Sparkling.

At least I would if I wasn't laughing so hard.

It doesn't have to be Kierkegaard to be revealing and insightful Sparklingbrook. There was a fabulous level of comedy honesty in the Penisbeaker thing. It might be my middle-ageitude talking but there you have it. The vibrant honesty of comedy womanhood. Just lovely.

Penisbeaker was the biggest load of cobblers ever. And I am not sure about the 'woman to woman' bit either what with there being loads of men on this site.

Vickyyy

I got Could Brussels Bureaucrats Give The British People Cancer?

I wouldn't be surprised if that has been a real DM headline.