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

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MikeRafone · 03/11/2025 20:53

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

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TeenagersAngst · 05/11/2025 13:03

Please explain how they stoke hatred? Discussing UK border policy is surely a sensible topic to debate?

Do you watch it? Regularly?

Notagain75 · 05/11/2025 13:06

Ohmygodthepain · 04/11/2025 06:58

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.

But were you told not to give interviews to any other news outlets and then cut off without any explanation or apology?

GnusSitOnCanoes · 05/11/2025 13:30

Notagain75 · 05/11/2025 13:06

But were you told not to give interviews to any other news outlets and then cut off without any explanation or apology?

You seem to think this is unusual. It isn’t. For anyone who works in media, outlets will often insist on some degree of exclusivity to feature your story so they aren’t covering precisely the same story as every other outlet. That is particularly so for a prime time channel. And yes, you might still get dropped if the news agenda changes. This is all standard practice, but it’s the calculated trade-off you make in exchange for coverage.

MikeRafone · 09/11/2025 07:45

Baby Ollie appeared on This morning show and the final funds have been raised to ensure the surgery. The parents house is sold and they have moved back with her parents, this money will fund the 3 months stay in US

Any further funds donated are now directed to another child who needs heart surgery in America

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Namechangeragin · 09/11/2025 07:58

Has she already been on GB News?
But the second time she was cut off?

The criticism of GB on this thread is interesting. Surely if the woman has already been on GB once (which someone upthread suggested) before then the woman thought her initial appearance on GB raised enough funds from the viewers to warrant going on it again?

If I were her I would be cross you posted this. News headlines change rapidly. Dropping guests is normal. Maybe the second channel would have done the same? She must have thought there was more money in GB News fans.

MikeRafone · 09/11/2025 08:11

Namechangeragin · 09/11/2025 07:58

Has she already been on GB News?
But the second time she was cut off?

The criticism of GB on this thread is interesting. Surely if the woman has already been on GB once (which someone upthread suggested) before then the woman thought her initial appearance on GB raised enough funds from the viewers to warrant going on it again?

If I were her I would be cross you posted this. News headlines change rapidly. Dropping guests is normal. Maybe the second channel would have done the same? She must have thought there was more money in GB News fans.

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The money has been raised, her chid has the opportunity to have surgery and I doubt its of any consequence now as the exposure on other media outlets has worked in raising funds.

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