To think a Sun journalist should not have sent me a PM because I'm on a thread?

[Neome]

And to ask you how to flag this up to MNHQ.

"Hello!

Hope you are really well. I am a journalist working on a story for The Sun about people who are stockpiling due to the coronavirus outbreak. I noticed in your comment you are keeping a small stockpile just in case - I wondered if you would mind giving me a little bit more info about what you have decided to stock up on, and how much you have stored?

Best wishes
Ellie"

@THATscurryfungeBITCH it's always bugged me , that must be how they found him

So delighted to see vote at exactly 50/50!

Be like Mick (a firefighter at Grenfell)

You put something on a public forum. It’s not a private little club that no journalists can access. Of course she’s entitled to message you - just as you’re entitlement to ignore.

if you report your OP on this thread, MNHQ will see it.

You can report the actual message in your inbox

YABU they have a job to do and they want good interviews. I know the terms are what they are but a journalist can never get a decent story without doing things like this, sorry

It’s a polite message. However I would reply telling them that I have no intention of contributing to their article for their shithouse newspaper. But that’s just me.

I don’t see the issue, you posted on a public forum, they messaged asking if you’d like to tell them more to print in the paper 🤷🏻‍♀️

Other journalists I’d mostly be more polite to: thanks but no thanks As I prefer to be totally anonymous on MN- it’s a personal decision. But yeah the s*n wouldn’t be getting much politeness from me.

I believe that BBC news had a story on that is the same as a thread yesterday (fridge or cupboard for ketchup). Quite possibly: the latest issue of Which? magazine had a big item on where to store condiments, and BBC usually follows up on their press releases. Just because MN has covered a topic doesn't mean that all news on that topic must have come from MN.

I'd have some fun with what you're stockpiling...

Moet et Chandon
Birkin handbags

I've had this before and just ignored it. Why wouldn't you just do the same?

Haha I would defo mess with them and say you are stockpiling random stuff that just about sounds plausible 🤣 the sun is fiction any way.

Let’s make a list:
Water balloons
Insect repellent
Single use plastic cups...

Well, I thought you'd stocked up on condoms and lube, OP, in case you had to stay in the house for a veeeeeery long time? (And television failed.)
Personally, I am gratefully looking at my stock of swiss army knives and dental floss. You can do so much with dental floss in an apocalyptic crisis.
They sit neatly next to the china teacups and stack of paper doileys. (One has to maintain standards.)

Fray Bentos pies
Angel Delight

Spam
Tinned peaches
Dr Whites Looped Sanitary Towels
And MASSES of anusol!

@Bluetrews25

Rushes out to stockpile dental floss!

I had similar from take a break after I posted about a painful break up between me and my ex, wanting to publish my story. Insensitive twats

She asked politely, you are at liberty to ignore the request. I've been messaged by all sorts of people on here about strange things, just don't engage if you don't want to

I'm a journalist for a national paper and I can understand why this might be annoying and an invasion of privacy. Personally I don't take stories from Mumsnet or use it for research (apart from for a pregnancy book I am writing where I asked for people to tell me what they would have liked to have read during pregnancy) because for me this is a private space where I like to ask for help and advice and I think personally I'd feel a bit overwhelmed if I received a message like that. I'd just delete and move on or report to Mumsnet, I don't think you owe her a reply.

I am always seeing mumsnet stories edited in online news

And tinfoil and cellotape to make some sort of DIY hazard suit! Just tell them that!

Just report or block. I was very happy to see a block function in PMs

Journos aren't allowed to PM on here.

No, no, you DO owe her a reply! Poor thing is only doing her job!
Come on, OP, were are trying to help you here! (No-one ever said it had to be true easy!)
Oh, and good luck with the dental floss, @TiddlestheCat, I think you will find I've got it allllllllll. Hahahahahahaha!

*I'd have some fun with what you're stockpiling...

Moet et Chandon
Birkin handbags*

now I know you need a pretty cabinet for the first, but where you do store handbags?

As to the private message, it's against mumsnet rules, so YANBU to think they should not have done it, and they need banning.