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.

Well, I think we can all help. Do not link Daily Mail stories. If you see any Daily Mail links, don't click on them. Any OP consisting of a DM link do not post on the thread.

I clicked, too. Won't do it again and I hope I'll remember to only answer "don't link, don't click" to any future DM links. Took me this long to have this epiphany .

Words are fair game - hence my username. I can't see the DM being that keen to screenshot one of my posts. However doing a blatant copy/paste job on a thread that is about the death of someone's child is beyond awful.

The thing is MN moderates its own site under the spirit of being a supportive site for women. Posts are deleted and threads taken down that fail to meet those values.

MNHQ are now being very quiet about this question of journalists lifting posts direct from threads and providing links back into the site. People in distress or in a difficult situation seeking advice could be badly hurt be something being picked-up in the mainstream media

They really do need to comment here and post conspicuous warnings that this is NOT a safe space for women to share their innermost feelings or experiences if they do not want them shared around the media circus.

I have sometimes offered snippets from my own life as a way of supporting others with similar issues. This has been a wake-up call for me, I certainly will not do so again.

I guess. We all need to amend our names to include a reference to the DM's cuntishness.

What, like DailyMailExploitGrievingMumPaxillin?

Are MNHQ definitely not accepting money for content used by journalists, then?

Someone has just said elsewhere that up to a third of content can be lifted gratis, which is a bit of a shocker.

Paxilin - yep, unless you want to end up being quoted in the DM. That's why I changed my username - because they ended up screenshotting something I'd said. Whilst the thread was lighthearted, I'd also posted other personal things under that NN. Hence why I changed to something they would never quote.

Silver - thank you. You have articulated exactly why I am so bloody mad about this whole thing. There is a real and vulnerable poster right in the middle of all of this.

Good idea fucker

I'm happy to join in a mass name-amendment to include a reference to the Daily Mail being a shower of cunts if this helps in any way.

Do feel free to get in a reference to Paul Dacre's conscience!

Good idea to prefix anysensitive posts with DMFuckOff

They might still copy it, but probably not

Absolutely sickening but let's remember that the real villain here is the Daily Mail journalist. HQ will not have sold anything at all. There is nothing they can do to stop stuff being lifted from this site.

When it happened before (in 2009 iirc) they were thinking of entering an official relationship with the Mail.

Aibu will be the downfall of this site, as I have been saying for t'years.

Hmmm, I could possibly mentally take myself back to the town of my birth and use the word fucking as punctuation, not sure all of MN would approve.

But would love to see the quote on DM "FuckYouCuntingDailyMail" of Oxford revealed her sad story of how she had to leave her five kids in care while she fought her legal battle to get out a Thai jail after trying to smuggle 1kg of crack in her builder husbands boxers.

Official relationship? What?

You remember Gooseberry - when there was all the hoo-ha and the poll about whether we'd like to be affiliated to the DM. August 2009, I'm sure.

This is the page of results I get when I search for the word Mail in thread titles in August 2009. I remember it particularly because I followed it during my holiday (usually go MN-free en vacances).

here

Maybe that's why I missed it. I missed the NYE kerfuffle too.

Maybe what's why you missed it? Were you on holiday too?