To hate The Sun journalists that linger on MN

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Seriously, fuck off?

Seriously considering name changing multiple times and creating far fetched stories to see what will be stolen for their next bonus.

YANBU. They are lower than a worm's tits.

PS, I think the term 'journalists' is rather too generous for them.

I feel sorry for them. I once wanted to be a journalist and being told to stalk the mumsnet boards would have finished me off. I’d have felt so crappy about my work.

I mean I thought that the point of being a journalist was to research and report on serious news, not to just re-write what other people have written on here ?!

Very sad

It's not just the Sun, loads do.

It's lazy, it's unprofessional, and it's not journalism.

im convinced a post i read on here turned up as a problem in my thats life magazine last week

Journalists do not get bonuses. A lot of them who do this kind of story are unpaid interns who are desperate to be real journalists.

It's not even journalism. Couls you imagine going for a job and being asked what stories you've covered and all you can say is 'i travelled mumsnet and then wrote 200 words stringing together screenshots about whether people take their shoes off inside'.

I thought it was the Daily Mail that hung around on here?

Hang on! You're mistaking the tabloid comics for newspapers.

@DanielRicciardosSmile I'm not as regular on DM as I am on The Sun (I know, but I find it a bit juicer and the comment sections are hilarious) so I haven't seen any on there myself!

Considering all the made up shite on here (especially on school holidays) I laugh at these so called journos who story steal because they will be writing more shite than usual and more fool them

I have a friend who works for one of these types of newspapers and their job is to watch Jeremy Kyle
I feel really sorry for them, imagine thinking you’re going to be in a great career and then that’s what you end up doing all day.

But I think journalism in general is a dying art.

Matthew Wright used to be terrible for nicking stuff from here.

Oh god the sun and the mail are the worst. It's utterly laughable that they stalk message boards for juicy stories that may or may not be true, and then publish them as "news stories". Yuck. Horrible rags.

But I guess they do it because people read it.

people on mn moan about the rags esp dm but will often provide a link to the story. how do you find this stuff unless you actively look for it ?

It's not just them our local paper constantly going 'anyone got any pictures' from things that have gone on about town. I've made several comments calling them lazy journalists get out on your bike and do some work!!!!!

Not really... people engage in MN as a form of entertainment. If someone creates a thread that people engage with and has entertainment value, why shouldn’t a tabloid share the entertainment....

You’re taking MN far too seriously! Do you think MN would be as well used as it is if all threads were earnest and sensible. And no, I’m not a ‘journalist’.

Anyone remember that AIBU thread where a journalist ( young and possibly inexperienced) copied the email into her OP outlining the Editor’s requirement to ‘wind ‘em up’ ; I’m paraphrasing there btw.

And The Mail does it three times - they tell you what was said, then they say it again, word for word, then in case any of their readers haven't understood by then, they show a screenshot.

Journalists do not get bonuses. A lot of them who do this kind of story are unpaid interns who are desperate to be real journalists.

Yes, and loitering on MN is going to help with that dream how, exactly?

OMG. Getting paid to watch Jeremy Kyle would be my ideal job. If I could do it whilst getting paid for taste testing cadbury's creme eggs, I swear it would tip into the realms of fantasy.

Portia has it. If people stopped posting the unbelievable shite that they invent for whatever reason they do, then the papers would have nothing to copy.

MN is probably about 80% trolls living out their fantasies these days so it's not worth worrying about if a redtop lifts it. They aren't real people behind the stories, not in the main.

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