Journalists

[Thebrowntrout]

Is it worth perhaps pointing out to people that their entire posts might end up in the Daily Mail?

I was a tad taken aback to end up on TV and print, and while it made little difference to me, it may be quite distressing in different circumstances for someone.

[DMHiresIlleterates]

Well that was a good article in the Telegraph. I suspect that was what the radio presenter was reading from rather than from MN itself as the beginning sounds very familiar. Thebrowntrout you are a legend in your own time lol

[LineyReborn]

I might have a crack at something.

My baby looks like Rupert Murdoch / Peter Andre / Paul McCartney. Do you have a baby that looks like a famous man who haunts our sidebar of shame? Do you gave big tits and a sad face?

[paxillin]

You should start a thread saying you eat kids for breakfast, Thebrowntrout, see who picks that one up for a well researched article.

[Thebrowntrout]

And she warms to me. I like that woman

[ouryve]

At least Lucy Mangan offers some reasonably thought through commentary and opinion and injects some of her own personality into it.

The Daily Maul commentaries are barely more than badly glued together C&P jobs. Most of the time, they look like school homework. (Though that said, the shallow puddle of swamp mud who lifted the bereaved mother story has a Twitter account that looks exactly like it belongs to a 14 year old, so maybe it was her homework.)

[SilverBirchWithout]

I think the DM are just being goady fuckers to see how far they can push it with MNHQ.

I think the answer is as far as the far side of very far away.

[IrenetheQuaint]

Lucy Mangan in the Telegraph loves you, OP:

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/why-its-okay-to-hate-other-peoples-children/

And yes, journalism budgets have been slashed to the point of invisibility, hence why so much space is now filled with retreads of social media.

[DailyFailAreABunchOfCunts]

I wonder if the reason that they are spending so much time lifting stuff straight out of MN is because actual commissioned pieces or bona fide articles are too expensive? Or they have run out of ideas? I mean there's only so many times that dear old Shona Sibary can haul herself into a dull looking wrap dress and dissect her marriage and her children for middle England's entertainment.

[DailyFailAreABunchOfCunts]

Liney - agreed. I read that thread and thought that straight away.

[ouryve]

Just a quick google of mumsnet daily mail shows how much they do it.

[LineyReborn]

I reckon the £600 cashmere silk top owned by one teenager and ruined by another teenager and the resultant shouty family barbecue thread will be next for the Daily Mail treatment.

[bumpingalong9386]

oops sorry xposts with others

[bumpingalong9386]

Its seems someone at the DM is spending their time trawling MN for stories....

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3561098/Women-posting-open-letters-partner-s-exes-cringeworthy-craze-s-sweeping-internet.html

[Thebrowntrout]

But people are ALWAYS saying they don't like kids! Ah well, who knows! Fifteen minutes of fame

[FelicityR313]

He seemed amused that it was unchartered water lol and not something ever talked about. Seems to be why they're all picking up on it. To boldly go where no brown trout has gone before.

[FelicityR313]

Seems you have to subscribe to LBC to listen to the podcasts. A few people rang in about children they disliked. It was the fella James O'Brien.

[MailonlineEffOff]

I saw that article. Was it lifted from here?

[PerfidiousPanda]

The one about FB thread drivel thanking women who have let 'their' man go so they can cherish him. Don't want to do link!

[Thebrowntrout]

Gosh, really? Which thread?

[PerfidiousPanda]

There's another one today - light-hearted, but still . . .

[Thebrowntrout]

How jolly exciting!

I wonder why this story jangled a nerve!?

Anyone got a link to the radio show?

[FelicityR313]

Thebrowntrout - you were discussed at length on radio today on LBC. Bit of a legend.

[MailonlineEffOff]

The article is on the Sun fb page.

[GooseberryRoolz]

I'm just flabbergasted that we sign away our copyright to MN when we post, but MN have so little they can do to then protect it. Media law is majorly behind the times.