FFS I am sat in a cafe Reading the Daily mail ( bless me father for I have sinned) and there ia a section called "today on mumsnet"

[flatcapandpearls]

Why would an intelligent website aimed primarily at women sell it's soul to this rascist, woman rating rag?

Hello chegirl

I am especially pissed off at how my light-hearted contribution to a chat was framed. Amusing fucking anecdote indeed, oh how I loathe them!

Sue em Ninks! How DARE they!!!

You wait, next week it'll be all 'Mumsnet,home of left wing, yummy mummies whinging that their state handouts are not enough to keep them in cocaine and vodka binges!'

According to Twitter, CatherineMumsnet was on 3Counties radio this afternoon...talking about fake tan!

Hang on I wasn't saying that mners are bitchy just that the dm would say that we were

I love the Mail. Don't agree with most of its politics, but its essential for a healthy democracy.

'S OK Bronze, i was jesting

(surprisingly I can be quite mean if I wish, though my MN Halo would lead one to thnk otherwise )

Goodness me - just back from broadband-free hols - did it really look like a regular column? We are completely bemused at HQ - no idea DM were doing this... if it's a regular column idea, you'd think they might have dropped us a line so maybe it's not - certainly no soul selling going on though OP.

JustineMN do you mean that the feckers haven't even approached you for permission to use all our pearls of wisdom?!?

I'm shocked that the DM is using "PFB" as the base for a few of their articles.

I've posted it before, and I'll post it again - journalist these days are just so lazy!

ach you know, journalists have to make a living somehow you know!

I thought it was all about the hard hitting news, the under cover jobs, the weeks of investigations and note taking, and the sobbing at being scooped... not the "oh shit, got a deadline due, I'll just surf mumsnet and copy and paste"

Have no objection to journos using Mumsnet for inspiration - I think the ones that do are quite smart really - after all we're a pretty good and easily-accessible bellweather for what's on intelligent folks minds. Am slightly surprised that they'd do a column based on MN wisdom without a little bit of consultation... but maybe it's actually a one-off. Will investigate further and report back.

agree that inspiration completely fine Justine but a column entitled 'today on mumsnet' should at least get your some cash tospendonus or some freebies somehow

the PFB article though with a little column on what mothers "reported" to have done regarding their first children... I know that what we post is not private, but I think I prefer the "I'm a journalist doing a story on x and would like your opinions/stories" approach to the fact that threads we join in on in jest/sharing seem to be cropping up in the papers in little columns with comments lifted or paraphrased from the thread.

A quick search for found a lot of articles which mention MN, and while most publicity is good publicity, it does seem a bit cheap for journalists to pull a few comments out of a thread and use them without any reference.

It would be quite easy for them to pay a fiver for a year to at least have the courtesy of sending a message to say "We're running a story on 'xxxx' and plan to include your comment" and at least allow a couple of days so the poster has a chance to comment back to the journalist.

Of course, it would be nice to get some sort of agreement from the founders, too, but the way that comments can be used is perhaps not always flattering, so I guess the journalist's idea is to claim "posted in public" and that copyright exists over complete threads, but taking a few extracts does no harm...

Came across board statistics while I was looking at places mentioning MN (and NewsTIN {'tin' was a unix news reader in the 80s, which might be the reason for the name}).

A search for Mumsnet on NewsNow.co.uk came up with only two items, both Daily Mail "This week on Mumsnet" entries - NewsNow searches only the headline text, NewsTIN shows articles with search terms anywhere in the page...

(I stopped looking at the articles after a few pages, but seems most UK newspapers include mentions from time to time - just wish I could get similar publicity for my website about slow broadband speeds!)