Complaint to BBC regarding Pete the Badge

Journo's struggle to get away with making stuff up these days. Photo sources are relatively easy to track down through the metadata and you can always tell when someone has tried to cover their tracks. They are happy to try and get as much internet coverage which is also a problem because everything leaves a trace. If those 2 pictures are one and the same then the scumbag at the BBC are bang to rights.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Oh I made sure to keep it:
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On a slightly different note, I recall in the dim and distant past walking down the very dark, dismal and dank main road outside Upton Park. I was keeping my head down as a rather large and somewhat moody array of West Ham gathered to take out anyone who may have been a City fan. I’d met Pete a few weeks earlier at Spurs and whilst I would never dismiss the handshake of a fellow blue, having him barrel up next to me at West Ham and start patting me on the back whilst dressed in his full regalia was not quite what I needed at that point. Me and me mates used to take great enjoyment in asking Pete the time and then watch him check his sky blue Casio watch, before cracking up at the sheer fucking dedication of the bloke.
 
bobmcfc said:
Clearly taking the piss, not sure how they can claim they aren't
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Once upon a time, the nice gentle BBC received a photo of a City fan with the title 'Bertie' and so as a lovely gesture to celebrate this chap's passion, they posted it on social media. But then a nasty monster called Prestwich Blue started terrorising the BBC. He was killed by boredom after constant flat out denials. And they all lived happily ever after.
 
dronefromsector7G said:
Once upon a time, the nice gentle BBC received a photo of a City fan with the title 'Bertie' and so as a lovely gesture to celebrate this chap's passion, they posted it on social media. But then a nasty monster called Prestwich Blue started terrorising the BBC. He was killed by boredom after constant flat out denials. And they all lived happily ever after.
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Imagine a photo of a United fan with the caption "Rag we salute you"
 
MillionMilesAway said:
Is that the response?
My immediate thought is that it is quite possible that the agency have a utd fan who'd tagged it "Bertie" in the agency archives, and it got taken on. There's no way to disprove that.
It's equally possible that it's some prat at Salford Towers who thought it was funny to write the caption.

The absolute most you'd expect is what they've done - apologise and remove. In no right thinking world should something like that involve anything more that we hear about - if it's a BBC employee doing it, that's for them to deal with in house.
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I got word for word exact same response no wonder they can respond so quick they just cut and paste to all who complain
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I love you! Marry me and have my babies. We've got the bastards bang to rights.

just had a response to complaint #2 (of 4) re Simon Stone attending a commercial launch event for Tag Heuer at The Etihad. And guess what? It's another load of bullshit. I queried why the BBC were tweeting images from a launch event and effectively advertising on behalf of one of the rags' sponsors when there was no newsworthy element that I could see.



Katherine's going to be sick of me before long.
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Just had the same response Trouble for them, he advertised the fact that they were launching two new watches with the price on a BBC website

Here's my follow up complaint to the Pete picture It's occurred to me that they stated he'd be going for over 50 years in the tweet How do they know this?
Full Complaint: In your reply you say that the picture concerned was filed by a national agency as "Bertie" Firstly can you tell me the name of the agency to enable me to contact them? Can you clarify if the name Bertie was understood by the BBC to be the name of the gentleman concerned as was implied in the caption on the tweet? I find it hard to believe that this name was just randomly used, an uncommon name, and that staff working on the BBC Sport media were unaware of the meaning of Bertie considering the number of Manu fans who work there. I'm not prepared allow this to be swept under the carpet especially considering the BBC's history
 
I'm sure this has already been mentioned but I ain't wading through 59 pages. I'm 99.9% certain the picture was used on the BBC's 'Sunday Premier League build-up'. I went to the pub at 12.30 and as my wife went to the bar (good lady) I logged onto the internet for the team news, the first picture I saw was Pete (so either the banner photo or amongst the text). My initial thought was good to see Pete at the game, my second was 'is Sergio starting?'. I'm 99% certain there was no offensive caption, or indeed any caption, so moved swiftly onto the team news and put my phone down when the drinks arrived. I thought nothing more of it.

I never look at twitter or facebook so could have not seen the MOTD site. So, if I'm correct the BBC displayed the photo (supposedly of the Etihad on Sunday but that's another story) at approximately 12.30pm on Sunday, with no caption.
 
Gary James said:
Colin, I'm not sure if you've seen this but the BBC's comment that they had no idea MCFC fans are called Berties is an absolute lie as on 4th Feb 2016 they published an article in which one of the questions was 'why are MCFC fans called Berties'! Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35422467 Time for someone at MOTD to be honest!

There was this link to it:
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Actually the more I look at that article it's fairly clear that back in Feb 2016 they chose to put questions and answers that ridiculed City! Compare the questions for us against those for Arsenal, Liverpool, United and Tottenham!
 
Gary James said:
Colin, I'm not sure if you've seen this but the BBC's comment that they had no idea MCFC fans are called Berties is an absolute lie as on 4th Feb 2016 they published an article in which one of the questions was 'why are MCFC fans called Berties'! Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35422467 Time for someone at MOTD to be honest!

There was this link to it:
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Bingo.

That's awesome Gary. I read that at the time but completely forgot about it. What a memory you have.
 
manchester blue said:
Bingo.

That's awesome Gary. I read that at the time but completely forgot about it. What a memory you have.
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I think it demonstrates that in this case the BBC MOTD team do not have a leg to stand on. It's on the BBC Football page, almost a year to the day before the PeteGate scandal, and presumably the journalists behind the football website page are also the ones that work on the BBC MOTD social media? It must be the same department at least.
 
johnnytapia said:
On a slightly different note, I recall in the dim and distant past walking down the very dark, dismal and dank main road outside Upton Park. I was keeping my head down as a rather large and somewhat moody array of West Ham gathered to take out anyone who may have been a City fan. I’d met Pete a few weeks earlier at Spurs and whilst I would never dismiss the handshake of a fellow blue, having him barrel up next to me at West Ham and start patting me on the back whilst dressed in his full regalia was not quite what I needed at that point. Me and me mates used to take great enjoyment in asking Pete the time and then watch him check his sky blue Casio watch, before cracking up at the sheer fucking dedication of the bloke.
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The prosecution's case is strengthening by the minute. So, it appears that they lied in their response on two fronts in blaming the agency for the use of Bertie and that no one in the sport department was aware of the derogatory nature of the term
 
Caught them in their own lies the bunch of wankers, good work those keeping on top of them. Keep calling them out on their bullshit.
 
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