Media coverage 2018/19

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Presumably a legitimate question for such ‘journalists’ would be to ask if they themselves have received payments, kindnesses from third parties to ask such questions and pursue certain agendas at particular times. Quite sure they’d be equally indignant about being asked, but the lines between whose employ football journalists are increasingly blurred, which makes the question moot.
 
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Jim White and Danny Murphy playing good cop/bad cop with Knob Harris on TS right now. For me Harris is guilty of bringing journalism into disrepute.
My base instinct is to wish Harris be locked in a room for 5 minutes with Kolarov to ask him the same question.
I apologise to fellow blues for giving Jim White air space in my home but a TS ban is now restored.
 
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Jim fucking white. ‘Pep bristled at the FFP question.’ No he didn’t he bristled at the insinuation that he had taken a bung, you bellend.

(1) the media have no right to know how (or how much) Guardiola is paid
(2) it would only be relevant if Mancini's separate advisory role (or whatever it was called, even if it's a blatant FFP dodge) is against FFP rules
 
The ones who justify Harris' question on the grounds that questions are important would object thoroughly if they were subject to the same thing. Asking questions is fine, but they do have to be justified. Otherwise, we're all free to ask anything we like of them on the same grounds, and - more importantly - they're compelled to answer them.

That they don't like.

Six months of press conferences to ask that question.
If they've asked in writing and got no answer, it's likely because that would lend credence to the leaked emails (which the club avoided until very recently).
 
Presumably a legitimate question for such ‘journalists’ would be to ask if they themselves have received payments, kindnesses from third parties to ask such questions and pursue certain agendas at particular times. Quite sure they’d be equally indignant about being asked, but the lines between whose employ football journalists are in are increasingly blurred, which makes the question moot.
I expect most football journalists will have taken a back-hander at some point. I'd be staggered if that wasn't correct.
 
Six months of press conferences to ask that question.
If they've asked in writing and got no answer, it's likely because that would lend credence to the leaked emails (which the club avoided until very recently).

I don't mind in principle the question being asked. But if questioning is legitimate, then questioning the motives of journalists is also legitimate, and that question was specifically to attempt to cast aspersions. Fine, then the same can be done to them - that's what they object to when it happens. Journalists often seem to believe they are a higher authority, and they are not. They are every bit as worthy of scrutiny as anyone else. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
 
I don't mind in principle the question being asked. But if questioning is legitimate, then questioning the motives of journalists is also legitimate, and that question was specifically to attempt to cast aspersions. Fine, then the same can be done to them - that's what they object to when it happens. Journalists often seem to believe they are a higher authority, and they are not. They are every bit as worthy of scrutiny as anyone else. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Yes. But he's had six months to ask in press conferences - why hasn't he done so?

As for the last bit - Harris, obviously.
 
Thought I'd watch the FA Cup highlights on the BBC....

Jason Mohammad presents highlights of the FA Cup final at Wembley. Victory for Manchester City against Watford will give them a second major domestic cup trophy of the season.

Fuck me! How petty.
 
I expect most football journalists will have taken a back-hander at some point. I'd be staggered if that wasn't correct.

Indeed. Doesn’t even have to be cash-stuffed envelopes. They’re highly dependent on accessing avenues to particular information, and the days when top ‘players’ and clubs need them more are long gone.
 
Its not the media's fault City fans are so upset about the media, it's the clubs. According to this no mark anyway...

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/...e-fa-cup-money-owners-abu-dhabi-donald-trump/
The stench of irony that emanates from this paragraph is almost too much to bear:

"As increasing questions have been asked of the sports-washing of their Abu Dhabi owners – using City as a PR tool to legitimise a corrupt regime – City’s fanbase have become staunch defenders of something they actually know little about."

It's been quite astonishing to see Abu Dhabi's transformation into a supposed rogue state akin to North Korea since the dippers and a handful of embittered journalists started banging this particular drum.
 
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The stench of irony that emanates from this paragraph is almost too much to bear:

"As increasing questions have been asked of the sports-washing of their Abu Dhabi owners – using City as a PR tool to legitimise a corrupt regime – City’s fanbase have become staunch defenders of something they actually know little about."

It's been quite astonishing to see Abu Dhabi's transformation into a supposed rogue state akin to North Korea since the dippers and a handful of embittered journalists started banging this particular drum.
Abu Dhabi should aspire to be like the UK and/or the USA.
 
The stench of irony that emanates from this paragraph is almost too much to bear:

"As increasing questions have been asked of the sports-washing of their Abu Dhabi owners – using City as a PR tool to legitimise a corrupt regime – City’s fanbase have become staunch defenders of something they actually know little about."

It's been quite astonishing to see Abu Dhabi's transformation into a supposed rogue state akin to North Korea since the dippers and a handful of embittered journalists started banging this particular drum.

"Staunch defenders of something they actually know little about"

We know patronising bullshit when we see it.
 
I absolutely despise some parts of the media. This is a targeted witch hunt. There is a clear agenda here. I hope the City legal team and execs are ready to go to war.

What goes on in the Middle East etc I don't agree with totally, but its not City's fault. Fuck its goes on all over the world. I just hope we sort the feckers out.
 
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