Wow, Did Mumsnet just close a newspaper?

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Impressive.

(But what will I read with a hangover on a Sunday?)

jaysus, not enough face-palms in the world.
As you say wordsonapage, it's delusions of grandeur. It may also be the reason why some people feel that posters on mumsnet should all have homogenous views on certain issues or at least all come from a similar point on the political spectrum.

'Mumsnet brought down a newspaper?! Good grief people on here really are full of their own self worth and belief aren't they ?!

ha ha....MN doesn't NEARLY as much influence as people think (or members come to that)

Youonlygetonelife - is that true? Justine on Newsnight? My OP was meant to be ironic...

Editor of Times on Channel 4 news just said Mumsnet Yummie mummies drinking Fair Trade tea have destroyed livelihoods of journalists at NI with Twitter campaign.

Bit harsh! I don't think the mummies were hacking into anyone's phone!

I nearly spat out my 'basics' coffee when i heard him say that

Why are the NOTW journalists complaining about being sacked and/or arrested? According to them the dole is much better than working and prison is a cushy holiday camp.

Yep Tethersend. I'm sure they said that being unemployed entitles you to a 5 bedroom house and £1k a week in benefits so I'm sure they'll all be fine.

the guy from the times though so. and yes I think that mners should be pleased if they galvanised corporate investors into divesting from NOTW (should be whole of NI though).

watch this space for the sunday sun.

Between murdoch, cameron, and the police we really do have a shredded democracy.

to clarify i'm pretty sure that this thread is in reference to the times editor's rant against the smug mumsnetters who have closed NOTW down. so he seems to think that mn was instrumental.

no it isn't - it was started yesterday!

Just caught the Times editor on ch4 news +1 - "the yummy mummies of mumsnet have done as much as anyone to put 200 journalists out of a job". Err, no.

Mumsnet was namechecked in an article on the BBC website yesterday as being instrumental in publishing the list of advertiser in the NOTW and sending forth the, er, Fair Trade Mummies/Keyboard Wielding Furies.

I caused a newspaper to fold the other day
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What a tool, the things that paper has been up to are very serious. So advertisers don't want to be associated with people who would hack a missing girls phone and get a police officer trailed who is investigating a murder where one of their informants is the chief suspect. Yeah it'll be the Twitter not the criminal activity that did it.

Bit difficult to feel guilty even if it was MN who shut the paper. Or rather, even if it was MN who organised the pressure on the advertisers which triggered the realisation that NOTW wasn't a paper to be supporting.

The Times editor seems to be absolving responsibility of national newspaper editors. Bringing his judgement into question, I think.

FFS- r Alton sounded like a tosser. Yeah, MN pwns Twitter doesn't it?

Roder Alton must have been drinking. How can News International have let him go on TV and blame anyone other than NI?!

That sounds way off today's message

c'mon, you harpies. Hope you feel guilty

tell you what, while we're obv on a roll, let's redress the balance a bit- nag Philip Hammond to get the Thameslink contract awarded to Bombardier instead of Siemens. Then all those folk (1400) in Derby'll get their jobs back.

c'mon, mummies, get tweeting...

(incidentally, have heard a lot more about those 200 poor souls at NOTW losing their jobs than these guys)

funny, that

We could start our own paper, The Righteous Bugle, and rehire all 200 of the NOTW staff. Hugh Grant to edit, Martin Bell as Chief Exec. Organic cafeteria, natch.

or we could have badges

red, black and white. Cheap type style font that comes off on your fingers:

'it was the mums wot fucked it'

Moral rag on the net -- Roger Alton Hate MN.

Don't be ridiculous, it takes more than a bit of slagging off on a parenting web site to close a media giant like the NoTW! Dearie me. Saw Justine on NN last night, sadly I think she's a bit deluded if she thinks this is actually going to change anything that much. Couldn't actually quite understand why she'd been asked to go on, lots of web sites have been discussing this issue heavily for ages, no one organisation or person is responsible for this coming to a head. It's been on-going for a while and will be for quite some time for sure. This is only the beginning.

Quite a relief to read this thread properly. I only saw the op on newsnight, and I was worried that mn was climbing up it's own arsehole.
Not sure why Justine was on newsnight. Pretty pointless and egotistical, and Will Self was VERY restrained when he challenged her.