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Journalists

126 replies

Thebrowntrout · 25/04/2016 19:06

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

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.

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rumblingDMexploitingbstds · 27/04/2016 10:04

I have just seen on another thread that The Sun have lifted the article and published it today. That poor poster.

Although I'm sure Martha will be happy to get another article out of anyone she pushes over the brink with her sensitive, ethical journalism. Angry

GooseberryRoolz · 27/04/2016 11:24

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.

MailonlineEffOff · 27/04/2016 11:34

The article is on the Sun fb page.

FelicityR313 · 27/04/2016 15:35

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

Thebrowntrout · 27/04/2016 16:23

How jolly exciting! Grin

I wonder why this story jangled a nerve!?

Anyone got a link to the radio show?

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PerfidiousPanda · 27/04/2016 16:28

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

Thebrowntrout · 27/04/2016 16:28

Gosh, really? Which thread?

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PerfidiousPanda · 27/04/2016 16:29

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!

MailonlineEffOff · 27/04/2016 16:44

I saw that article. Was it lifted from here?

FelicityR313 · 27/04/2016 16:45

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.

FelicityR313 · 27/04/2016 16:47

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. Grin

Thebrowntrout · 27/04/2016 16:57

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

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bumpingalong9386 · 27/04/2016 17:08

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

bumpingalong9386 · 27/04/2016 17:09

oops sorry xposts with others Blush

LineyReborn · 27/04/2016 17:13

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.

ouryve · 27/04/2016 17:31

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

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DailyFailAreABunchOfCunts · 27/04/2016 18:32

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

DailyFailAreABunchOfCunts · 27/04/2016 18:46

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.

IrenetheQuaint · 27/04/2016 19:01

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.

SilverBirchWithout · 27/04/2016 19:50

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.

ouryve · 27/04/2016 20:22

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.)

Thebrowntrout · 27/04/2016 20:31

And she warms to me. I like that woman Grin

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paxillin · 27/04/2016 20:53

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

LineyReborn · 27/04/2016 21:03

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?

DMHiresIlleterates · 27/04/2016 21:08

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