Complaint to BBC regarding Pete the Badge

[Rolee]

The Biased Broadcasting Company! This shit must go right to the top of their sports programmes as whatever is put out there must have to be vetted and agreed by an editor. I guess there must be a press complaints commission that can be complained to as well?

Of course it does, look at the reply I gave you earlier.

The club has tried with these ****s before and it made the situation worse.

 

[che_don_john]

I'm pretty sure this would have been done by some young 'social media' intern or low-paid employee.

I remember last year there was an article on the BBC website about Sterling; it was the most laughably biased thing I'd ever read - bitter, nasty and full of the usual cliches that accompanied his transfer. It didn't take Sherlock to work out that the guy who wrote it was a Utd fan who on his Twitter page called himself a 'Social Media Journalist'. I complained to the BBC about it and got the usual copy and paste response about impartiality and integrity. I'm a big supporter of the BBC and agree that it does well to be as fair as it can be, but that really only applies to journalists at a certain level - and not to the kids doing the social media.

That is the way journalism is these days. The need/expectation for 24-hour 'news', a constant stream of updates and information that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere and at anytime, means that organisations like the BBC outsource or delegate social media responsibilities to younger, less-experienced people because the real journalists and web content managers ain't got time for that shit.

That's how we end up with crap like this.

 

[blue roo]

Complaint lodged. I await their reply.

Facebook page mocking a Manchester City fan
Complaint description
On today's Facebook front page you have shown a photograph of a Manchester City fan. The banner headline refers to ""we salute you Bertie". His name is not Bertie, as you must well know, it is Pete Green. Pete has been around for over 50 years as a fan both home and away, domestically and abroad. He is a much loved legendary figure at the club. Everyone stops and talk to Pete, there is not a single bad bone in his body. Pete has learning difficulties that he battles with on an everyday occurrence. Despite that he enjoys life to the full. I know full well your reasons to mock Pete. It's because he. Is not a precious Man Utd fan, therefore he is game. You must know that the name "Bertie", is the mocking name that United fans have for City. It goes back many years to when City could not compete on the field with the financial wealth United had. Every Other football fan in the country knows that the BBC have jumped into the Old Trafford bed. Your sickening bending at the knee to every United angle is truly sycophantic. The BBC charter declares truth delivered without fear or favour. Well when it comes to your costing up to United it certainly does not. This debasing of a gentle and sweet man deserves your respect, not your ridicule ( or banter as you probably see it). BBC are now insulting vulnerable middle aged people. Shame on you. Some City fans use the name "rag" when referring to United fans. So either I expect a public apology for this insulting article, or will you,seek out a similarly disabled, less advantaged vulnerable United fan to photograph, put onto your facebook and refer to him as " a rag", to redress the imbalance ?.

Good work mate.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Martin Samuel at the Mail appears to be one journalist who has some sympathy for us perhaps he may be interested in the story? At a time when clubs and the media are moaning about the lack of atmosphere and how to improve it, they choose to mock one of the great characters out there. Shame on them, not that they know the meaning of the word!

I copied in Simon Heggie to my email. If he's got enough nous, it'll find its way to sympathetic journalists but I won't hold my breath.

 

[Eccles Blue]

And now they are ridiculing our new signing Mr Jesus!!

From the BBC Sport website:

"The Sun have written up a story about new Manchester City forward Gabriel Jesus.

According to them, the player opted to take a 600-yard cab ride through rainy Manchester rather than walk back to his hotel after he got his hair cut."

There is a link to the Skunk website but no way Jose would I even copy it to here or access it!!!

 

[mcfc49]

why do we also insist on having two bbc employees in our own city square on matchdays. hugh ferris is an absolute **** doesn't hide the fact he is a rag a shite presenter basically just a wind up merchant. alastair mann while usually a good over viewer of the game on sunday said there was no way he could see aguero playing with jesus when we had just seen 10 minutes of the pair tearing Swansea apart. what I did was turn my back every time ferris spoke and turned back when danny and natalie,proper blues, were speaking. I would love to see us doing this en masse. aguero leaving was the main story on their teletext yesterday. cant wait to see jesus and Sergio playing together and shut all the fuckers up.

 

[discopop]

And now they are ridiculing our new signing Mr Jesus!!

From the BBC Sport website:

"The Sun have written up a story about new Manchester City forward Gabriel Jesus.

According to them, the player opted to take a 600-yard cab ride through rainy Manchester rather than walk back to his hotel after he got his hair cut."

There is a link to the Skunk website but no way Jose would I even copy it to here or access it!!!

And within minutes of your post the same shit story appears on Talkshit, funny eh. they are all bottom feeders nowadays

 

[Eccles Blue]

And within minutes of your post the same shit story appears on Talkshit, funny eh. they are all bottom feeders nowadays

What gets me is the guy (GJ) is new to Manchester and might not have known that the shop was that near. We all know what Mcr rain can be like, I got soaked yesterday walking from my car to the hospital entrance which was 100 yds away! Plus it's his own flaming money he is spending!!

 

[mcfc49]

Complaint lodged. I await their reply.

Facebook page mocking a Manchester City fan
Complaint description
On today's Facebook front page you have shown a photograph of a Manchester City fan. The banner headline refers to ""we salute you Bertie". His name is not Bertie, as you must well know, it is Pete Green. Pete has been around for over 50 years as a fan both home and away, domestically and abroad. He is a much loved legendary figure at the club. Everyone stops and talk to Pete, there is not a single bad bone in his body. Pete has learning difficulties that he battles with on an everyday occurrence. Despite that he enjoys life to the full. I know full well your reasons to mock Pete. It's because he. Is not a precious Man Utd fan, therefore he is game. You must know that the name "Bertie", is the mocking name that United fans have for City. It goes back many years to when City could not compete on the field with the financial wealth United had. Every Other football fan in the country knows that the BBC have jumped into the Old Trafford bed. Your sickening bending at the knee to every United angle is truly sycophantic. The BBC charter declares truth delivered without fear or favour. Well when it comes to your costing up to United it certainly does not. This debasing of a gentle and sweet man deserves your respect, not your ridicule ( or banter as you probably see it). BBC are now insulting vulnerable middle aged people. Shame on you. Some City fans use the name "rag" when referring to United fans. So either I expect a public apology for this insulting article, or will you,seek out a similarly disabled, less advantaged vulnerable United fan to photograph, put onto your facebook and refer to him as " a rag", to redress the imbalance ?.

is there any organisation outside of the bbcc you could also send this this complaint to. an authoriity that oversees the media in general. ive found to my own cost that organisations like the bbc and the health service like to just brush complaints under the carpet.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

What gets me is the guy (GJ) is new to Manchester and might not have known that the shop was that near. We all know what Mcr rain can be like, I got soaked yesterday walking from my car to the hospital entrance which was 100 yds away! Plus it's his own flaming money he is spending!!

I know for a fact that Gary Neville got a black cab from the rank on St Mary's Gate (by Paperchase) to The Moon Under Water, which is a distance of 500 feet, a few years ago. He then got the same cab to take him from there to Number 1 Deansgate, which is the same distance.

 

[discopop]

What gets me is the guy (GJ) is new to Manchester and might not have known that the shop was that near. We all know what Mcr rain can be like, I got soaked yesterday walking from my car to the hospital entrance which was 100 yds away! Plus it's his own flaming money he is spending!!

To be fair to them they dismissed it and said good on him. But the fact the story true or not got regurgitated so quickly shows you that non of the outlets do any journalism nowadays just crib from other outlets

 

[Peggy's a blue]

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is there any organisation outside of the bbcc you could also send this this complaint to. an authoriity that oversees the media in general. ive found to my own cost that organisations like the bbc and the health service like to just brush complaints under the carpet.

isnt OFCOM the organisation to complain about tv and media?

 

[pace89]

There's a huge rag bias within BBC Sport which clearly impacts the editing of MOTD and especially their online offering. It's very different from the general bais towards the Rags and is based more around focusing negative attention on City. Nevertheless, we need to get a sense of proportion. Tweets from the MOTD account will dreamed up by some 22 year old bitter rag social media operative who's too immature to understand that these things can have repercussions. Probably getting his own back for all the shoeings he got off blues at school.

The BBC is a huge organisation and the notion that there's some national editorial decision to make snide digs at City is fanciful. It's a few pricks operating under the radar who do things only we would notice.

All that said, City should take this up with MOTD and seek an apology on Pete's behalf. The contempt they show for our club, manager and players is one thing but taking the piss out of match going supporters who have not right of reply is distinctly different. Also using the term 'Bertie' is incendiary and 10 or 15 years ago I know what the response would have been. But we're all too grown up and responsible to use naughty banned words now.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Maybe we should start a name and shame thread where we can put all the links to clearly biassed articles? It should soon fill up, then it could be forwarded to the club for them to lodge a complaint to the IPSO (https://www.ipso.co.uk).

 

[01282]

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere but I watched MOTD last night and was left exasperated by Gabby Yorath's comments. It was a strange game that felt like a training ground exercise with an eerie atmosphere is what the rugger bugger shagging slapper said. None stop singing from the singing section in the first half yet no reference to that. City were on it from the first minute so how the fuck that is training ground pace I do not know. They even queried whether City's winner should have stood without referencing Swansea's off side goal or the penalty on Sterling. Finally, they even had the temerity to show all 3 of Swansea's chances yet showed about 10% of City's. BBC - Blue bashing ****s is what it should stand for.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Not to discredit any of the opinions being posted as they all have merit, but lads we shouldn't distract ourselves from the issue here.

It's ONE point. Not some grand conspiracy to rant about, it's ONE solitary issue where we have these c**ts 100% dead to rights for attacking a genuine match going blue. Not a personality, a person.

So I'd urge all to stick to this ONE issue as it's the one they literally have zero defense for.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Not to discredit any of the opinions being posted as they all have merit, but lads we shouldn't distract ourselves from the issue here.

It's ONE point. Not some grand conspiracy to rant about, it's ONE solitary issue where we have these c**ts 100% dead to rights for attacking a genuine match going blue. Not a personality, a person.

So I'd urge all to stick to this ONE issue as it's the one they literally have zero defense for.

Good point, well made.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Not to discredit any of the opinions being posted as they all have merit, but lads we shouldn't distract ourselves from the issue here.

It's ONE point. Not some grand conspiracy to rant about, it's ONE solitary issue where we have these c**ts 100% dead to rights for attacking a genuine match going blue. Not a personality, a person.

So I'd urge all to stick to this ONE issue as it's the one they literally have zero defense for.

I agree that's it something that has completely over-stepped the mark and they deserve to be pilloried for it but they will either take it down and gloss over it or issue a half-hearted apology saying they didn't mean to offend anyone and it was done unintentionally. Then they'll carry on.

What defence is there to quoting the team cost of us and Leicester just before a game in which Leicester were playing the rags? What defence is there to not mentioning our game on Sunday in any one of five news bulletins? There isn't any.

 

[Uptop]

TBBCAUC

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

Permanent reminder that the BBC's primary football correspondent for the North West, Simon Stone, is a rag. Relevant thread for the uninitiated:

http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/the-bbcs-simon-stone-another-one-for-the-list.323609/