GB news treated this mum badly, when she is trying ti raise £1.5 million to send her son to Stanford

[MikeRafone]

There is a mum trying to raise money to send her son to Stanford for heart surgery
The mum has been doing tv and radio plugs, which has elped

this morning GB news told her not to do anymore interviews and held her waiting in a virtual room for an interview for 50 minutes and then just dropped her - she had the opportunity for another interview but due to this couldn't do it

GB "new" are unreasonable to just leave her like this hanging on after telling her they wanted no other coverage and she could have worked today with another tv or radio show to get coverage to help funds. Its a bad way to treat someone

this money has a time frame as the child is on palliative care and its a case of waiting until the moneys raised and then he can be flown out

It's the far right, what do you expect?

Is this some convoluted way of having a go at GB news to satisfy your far left resentment of anyone who thinks differently to you?

Your comment says far more about you, thinking of ways to bring left or right wing politics into this whilst many others are rallying regardless of their political views to help get a baby to where he needs to be

It seems odd you're picking on GB news for this. Every newsroom in the world has to change schedules around. Stories, interviews, people get rearranged or dropped. Quite honestly, a 50 minute wait doesn't sound like much, and she could go elsewhere after. It's just a reality of a constantly changing, busy news environment. It's highly unlikely there was anything malicious in it.

And for the record, I don't watch it.

This.

OP, it's really not at all clear what happened here or why. But anyone who has worked with tv knows it's extremely changeable on short notice, even when it's not live broadcasts.

I saw this earlier. They (GB news) asked her to not do any other interviews prior and when she was waiting to be interviewed they simply cut her off and didn’t do the interview.
Poor little lad needs the donations. Fuck absolutely anyone who’d treat a mother desperately trying to get her child medical treatment that way.

Op, post the link for anyone who’d like to donate. Shame on GB News but then im
not surprised something like this wouldn’t be prioritised by them given the usual output they have.

I may be wrong but I think it's against MN guidelines to post links to fundraising sites but if you post what words to google that's ok.

I imagine they couldn’t make time in their schedule. It happens, even to horrible channels like GBN.

Weird thread

Yes, schedules change. But they’d banned her from doing other interviews then just cut her off in the virtual waiting room after she’d been waiting nearly an hour. No communicatuon, simply cut the link.

This .

Doubt it’s anything personal and a scheduling issue .

GB News is run and loved by nasty far right reform voters who want to privatise the NHS, so it's not a suprise they had no sympathy for a young mum of a disabled and poorly baby.

Anyone still watching their channel is actively contributing to reform trying to force children like Ollie to have no access to healthcare.

What rubbish

The real question is why she has to take her child overseas for medical care when the NHS drains so much money from taxpayers. There is no money shortage in the NHS. It’s just spent inappropriately.

She has my sympathies but, to be brutally honest, there are far bigger stories and tragedies in the world that need covering, many of which we rarely hear about. A major news channel has to be ready and able to adapt to ongoing events.

Maybe the NHS have weighed up the costs and benefits of this surgery and unfortunately it would not be an appropriate use of funds? It may sound harsh but there have to be limits to what they can offer.

My DH sometimes gets asked to give short interviews on news channels because of his job. He often declines because most of it is waiting around and it’s common for your slot to be cut right down or cancelled. So while unfortunate for this lady it sounds very normal to me

Tv interview can and will be pulled with no notice unfortunately. That’s live tv for you.

I was once bumped off news at 10 because other more important stuff was going on in the world that meant the article I was supposed to be in was cut almost entirely. It happens.

The NHS can't do the operation, it's not a case of they won't, but can't. If the operation goes ahead in Stanford, then the NHS are able to do stage 2

there are far bigger stories and tragedies in the world that need covering, many of which we rarely hear about

that has far more to do with how news is purchased and due to news making money - journalism has changed dramatically over the last 50 years to a cash cow rather than news giving

exactly....;)

To those criticising the NHS, it isn’t a case of won’t do the operation it’s a case of can’t, it’s an experimental procedure only Stanford is doing, only a single surgeon. He actually needs two procedures and the second one is available here.

I’m no fan of GB News but news happens, maybe a big news story broke so they had to stop hers. There’s been a few in the past week!!