No I don't think for one minute it "Was MN wot one it" but The Times seems to be hellbent on portraying all this as a MN-led campaign:
From Friday paper:
This was after a list of the News of the World?s advertising clients had been published online, encouraging people to send Twitter messages to the companies to express concern at the activities of the paper?s journalists.
The list, which appears to have been published first by the influential women?s website Mumsnet, provided links to prepared messages for people to send on to companies asking if they would reconsider advertising on the News of the World?s pages.
A typical message read: ?Dear @TheCooperative, will you be reconsidering your advertising spend with #notw given that we now know they hacked Milly Dowler?s phone??
The tweets were quickly republished by thousands of people, sending the hashtag #notw soaring up the microblogging site?s list of ?trending topics? in Britain.
I told a Times reporter who rang me the next day that the Twitter campaign on NOTW wasn't started by MN at all - Mumsnetters joined in but they are very keen on the line that it's all the fault of middle class yummy-mummies and the wider public don't mind at all about NOTW's "wrong-doing". They subsequently ran a piece Titled Victory for Mother of All Internet Campaigns with a pic of me.
All this is possibly an attempt to characterise the consumer backlash against the NOTW as a leftish conspiracy because of my connection with the Guardian-dh works there - or possibly because they actually believe it all a leftish conspiracy. Not sure which is more risible tbh.
I do think that lots of individuals - on Twitter, Facebook and indeed MN - were justifiably angry after the Milly Dowler phone hack revelations and consequently self-organised and took very effective direct action. The internet is very good at facilitating that.
And incidentally I think that I've as much right as the next person (Will Self for example 
) to comment on what happened, on Newsnight [so there].
(By the by, I'm told that they really struggled to get guests on Newsnight this week to talk about hacking (make of that what you will) which probably explains why they asked me 
.)