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Mumsnet and the Daily Mail

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TheWildRumpyPumpus · 28/04/2020 20:28

I’d like to say for starters that I’m not a PBP, trouble maker, on any other forums, or out to ask difficult questions! But I find it confusing that anyone who raises an awkward question about anything around here these days automatically gets their thread deleted and is accused of being a PBP without their question being answered.

It’s a fact that MN at one point had a ‘reciprocal’ relationship with the Daily Mail, causing a right kerfuffle on these boards. Justine commented here and it’s interesting reading this 10 years plus later, seeing how the landscape has changed.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/820249-Daily-Mail-The-On-Mumsnet-This-Week-Column-part-374?pg=1

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JustineMumsnet · 29/04/2020 10:50

Hello Wildrumpy, thanks for raising this - you've given me a trip down memory lane Grin. Our mod team tend to delete threads designed merely to stir or spam of which there have been a fair few lately. But I hope we're always open to genuine questions. I think there's been some suggestion that we have some kind of reciprocal arrangement with the Daily Mail. That's complete bollocks to be frank - we don't collaborate on any threads/ send them threads / start threads ourselves for them/ or have any kind of financial arrangement. And we never have. The column idea mentioned here was proposed by a regular MN user who freelanced for the DM and involved a much-loved and very funny MN user writing a short round up of an Aibu thread of the week - it lasted a few weeks at most.

Since then - largely under the previous editor - we we have had a pretty strained relationship to put it mildly. At one point they were actively putting calls out for journalists to write "hit" pieces on MN and me personally. In 2013 one such piece did appear, suggesting amongst other things that MN was responsible for causing suicides. Because we had evidence of their active commissioning of a "hit piece" (this was all around the time of the Levenson enquiry) we managed to force a correction in the paper.

We've also asked them on several occasions to remove articles they've lifted from Mumsnet in order to protect users identities or feelings. With mixed results. On the other hand no one can doubt the Mail is a powerful campaigning paper and we would always consider working with them to help give oxygen to our campaigns - consequently they've run pieces on both our Better Postnatal Care and Menopause campaigns.

Hope that clarifies - many thanks for asking the question and giving us a chance to clear up any confusion.

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JustineMumsnet · 29/04/2020 12:00

@nevergooogle

I liked Mumsnet circa 2009. Can we just go back please?

I know what you mean Smile but I would say that in 2009 people on site were posting the same thing about how it was much better in ye olden days Wink. Who was it who said, The more things change the more they stay the same [ponder]?

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