Daily Mail part 3

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Just to respond to

"You were at just as much risk of being quoted by a journalist before"

I really don't understand that - please explain how the odd one off is exactly the same risk as a weekly column that will definitely be quoting an MN thread?

There were risks both times but they are not the same - surely that's obvious?

the daily mail isnt nestle or aptimil though is it so why keep banging that drum?
would it be ok then if it was a more highbrow paper or the NS. i'd prefer Private Eye

Shiney, I think I'm leaning towards Goodfellas personally, but there are so many...

And yourself?

Agree that it's a security wake-up call more than a huge new risk.

For me the central issue is still 'Do I want to contribute to the wellbeing of the Daily Farking Mail'?

Answer: No I fucking don't. If it's done without our consent, then so be it. But MN cosying up to the DM voluntarily would be something I just wouldn't want to stay for.

oh some peeps are so thick round here thought it was a middle class clever type place you cant work out the similarities between them well god help us all

also i dont think its our decision to make anyway
we use this site for free
its up to mnhq imo

. is that to me the thick comment? i have been nothibg but polite in my posts , why the aggression?

The Daily Mail is a misogynist, scaremongering publication, but it doesn't, afaik, aggressively promote formula, a practice which kills 1.5 million babies a year and makes many more sicker than they would have been had they been breastfed.

That's the difference, perhaps?

nah of course thaats why i said should change the slogan to

by parents come business folk for any tom dick and harry

I really really really don't think it is added risk, and actually I think people have latched onto that as a 'this is why I object' when really it's because it's the Daily Mail.

Nobody minded when Justine and Carrie wanted some people to go on This Morning (viewing figures approx 1million).

Just be careful what you write, as ever!

Hunker, I would say its agenda is fairly firmly anti-bf. Lot of Feminazi and BF Fuhrer-type bullshit there, surely?

marking my place

National Lampoons films are a little avant-garde for my tastes. I can't really handle the whole director-as-auteur thing...

You're right, it's hardly bf-friendly.

Hey, maybe I could write for them? I could take over the DM by stealth.

It'll be the "Daily Munker" in a decade - full of lovely stuff about how important it is to make policies that are family-friendly, how women (esp mothers) are pretty bloody ace.

Anyone want to subscribe?

(You can watch clips from the TV series on the MN homepage).

I can't watch Goodfellas anymore after my ex watched it three times in a row. He finished watching it and put it straight back on again! Madness. We watched Tropic Thunder last night. It was ok, not hilarious though.

fab idea hm

Mumsnet in the news

BC, watch this space

no thick comment was to everyone that cant see diff between MUMSNET in a headline and mumsnet in an article and being read by more people.

and that number of children dying is more linked to tthem not having clean water to use than the formula itself isnt it

Add "mumsnet" to a Google news alert and you'll get (some really quite far-flung) articles with mumsnet in them delivered to your inbox. It's fascinating - I think poor Justine must be pig-sick of talking about swine flu atm though!

well thats coz the people that didnt mind being on this morning and saying there bit put themslef forward. those that didn't didn't

Ooh, can we talk about breastfeeding versus formula-feeding here too? Bliss

Look at my link - you will find plenty of MUMSNET headlines.