To neither know or care if anything I've written on here has appeared on the Daily Mail website?

[GilMartin]

The whole Daily Mail thing is tiresome. Not them quoting from this website, that's just lazy journalism driven by a need to generate a near constant supply of stories at near zero cost.what I've found a thousand times more irritating than the Daily Mail and its crappy churnalism/clickbait is comments along the lines of:

'I hate the Daily Mail with a passion and I've just seen on their website that they've taken a story from a thread.'

• If you hate it so much why are you reading their website and contributing to their advertising revenue?

'I'd like to help you op, but I don't want my opinions spread all over the Daily Mail'

• well I guess I'll have to live without whatever earth shattering pearl of wisdom you were going to dispense. Why post that mealy mouthed cotter? If you don't want to post, don't post anything. If you think humanity can't live without your piercing insights or your unique capacity for empathy into the human condition, train as a counsellor or sign up for the Samaritans.

'Interesting first post op are you a DM journalist looking for a story?'

• if you think that's the case, report the thread. A snidey comment isn't going to make a hardened hack breakdown and tearfully confess to their misdeeds is it? Also, there's so much far fetched stuff on AIBU, why would a hack go to the bother of making it up?

'MNHQ make the Daily Mail stop doing it'

• stop what? Using information you've put in the public domain on a popular website anyone can access?

'Let's all change our user names to something that includes "the daily mail are massive cunts" that'll stop them'

• no it won't and you'll look a childish prat in the process.

'My privacy has been invaded'

• no it hasn't, because you've put it all out there and once you do it is out of your control. If you're foolish enough to put identifyable information on these boards, then you've only got yourself to blame and you shouldn't expect people to save you from your own stupidity and failure to exercise appropriate caution online.

Either post something or don't, but save us the hypocritical and po-faced arseaching about the Daily Mail. They could have reproduced every word I've ever written online for all I know or care, because I don't use their website and I understand the consequences of posting stuff on the internet.

mumsnet sees itself as something of a middle-class enclave.

Does it? I don't think it does.

Class-based sneering? Is "hunnery" working class? Is that what you are saying??

Is there really such a prevailing socioeconomic demographic here? I didn't think there was.

About the thread, not on the thread, sorry.

It's fine that you don't care, OP, but I think it's worth warning people that their threads may end up in a paper ( in case they aren't aware) and they would care that auntie Mabel whom they are slagging off reads the Mail/Mirror/Sun but definitely doesn't come on MN.

Not everyone is as savvy as you. And you are very savvy. Well done

On the Nethuns thing... I get the impression that Huns are considered are a lower class younger set & that MNers consider themselves a middle class, educated more worldly-type.
That's just from reading Mumsnet, not the Daily Mail. Although I do think that the DM laps the whole thing up, "Helen from Milton Keynes was shocked at the school's response" etc...

Sloppy and lazy journalism is irritating. I see it daily on forums I participate in. The local journos collect their stories from community groups, primarily because they no longer work from an office so its much easier to lurk and lift. These then get syndicated to larger locals such as The Metro or Evening Standard which in turn sell on to national papers. More annoyingly they never give credit.