Media Thread - 2021/22

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blue moony said:
See our good friend and pyschopath Rob Harris was escorted and thrown out of the new LIV golf series press conference for consistently asking questions about sportswashing .
He ended up shouting and got thrown out

He needs sectioning this twerp or worse
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Another good friend Mr Roan of the impartial BBC joins in on the act:

 
domalino said:
I find it fascinating that this section of the media seemingly want to make working for or with Saudi Arabia equatable to collaborating with Aparteid South Africa, not because I agree with their policies or laws, but because Saudi Arabia are so clearly peas in a pod with all the other gulf states and an increasing number of Islamic African countries.

I think it's easy to try and make one state a pariah, South Africa was basically the only country doing aparteid and it's a realtively minor player globally. Trying to make Saudi a pariah because of their islamist governance suddenly brings in 20-30 other countries who must be excluded, and trying to do it based on their extrajudicial killings/war means going after China, Russia, the USA.

I don't see how they can succeed.

And while this usually brings about cries of whataboutism, why wasn't Rob Harris at the Saudi International in Februrary asking these questions to all the players on the European Tour. Why hasn't he done it at any of the races to Dubai?
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Agreed. It is just selective and a very lazy narrative. Rob Harris could also have attended the Kenya Savannah Classic last March. Another Euro Tour event being held in a country which has been accused by human rights groups of murdering and torturing its political opponents. What I can't understand is why people like Harris only seem to have a problem with certain Arab states. Is he a moron who can't use Google or does he have another motive?
Are all the people at the top of the European Golf Tour involved in some giant "sportswashing exercise" or are they just trying to turn a profit. Why does no one make a fuss about Dubai and its tourist industry. I think there is no such thing as "sportswashing." It is a fabricated concept. Lots of countries are trying to diversify their economies away from fossil fuels and tourism, leisure, and sport is a huge commercial opportunity. If they promote their country as a leisure destination at the same time then so what. Does anyone think that Sheikh Mansour sat in a room with Government officials and said: "We must do something to cover up the dreadful publicity about our migrant workers. Let's buy football clubs across the world including some in places with worse human rights records like China and Uruguay." It is total bollocks.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Another good friend Mr Roan of the impartial BBC joins in on the act:

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Dan Roan will be the first 'sportswriter' in the queue for the flights to Qatar when the World Cup starts that's for sure. If any of them were that serious about sports washing they would boycott the the tournament. But how many of them actually will? They will be filling their hypocritical boots with the lavish 'hospitality' and freebies that will get thrown at them. They will then arrive back in England and immediately revert to type. Spineless, hypocritical, cockroaches. All of them.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Agreed. It is just selective and a very lazy narrative. Rob Harris could also have attended the Kenya Savannah Classic last March. Another Euro Tour event being held in a country which has been accused by human rights groups of murdering and torturing its political opponents. What I can't understand is why people like Harris only seem to have a problem with certain Arab states. Is he a moron who can't use Google or does he have another motive?
Are all the people at the top of the European Golf Tour involved in some giant "sportswashing exercise" or are they just trying to turn a profit. Why does no one make a fuss about Dubai and its tourist industry. I think there is no such thing as "sportswashing." It is a fabricated concept. Lots of countries are trying to diversify their economies away from fossil fuels and tourism, leisure, and sport is a huge commercial opportunity. If they promote their country as a leisure destination at the same time then so what. Does anyone think that Sheikh Mansour sat in a room with Government officials and said: "We must do something to cover up the dreadful publicity about our migrant workers. Let's buy football clubs across the world including some in places with worse human rights records like China and Uruguay." It is total bollocks.
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Good post. Sums the situation up nicely.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
As usual with Roan it's all about him. He epitomises everything that has gone wrong at the BBC. His Twitter account is 90 per cent him re-tweeting his favourite political causes. He is a joke....at our expense.
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Crikey what an exclusive. So he managed to ambush someone and ask a few pathetic questions which were more like his statements rather than questions and which were swatted away with niceties.
Pitiful, lightweight turnip stealing a living.
 
PPT said:
Dan Roan will be the first 'sportswriter' in the queue for the flights to Qatar when the World Cup starts that's for sure. If any of them were that serious about sports washing they would boycott the the tournament. But how many of them actually will? They will be filling their hypocritical boots with the lavish 'hospitality' and freebies that will get thrown at them. They will then arrive back in England and immediately revert to type. Spineless, hypocritical, cockroaches. All of them.
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There appears to be no Editorial control over Roan. He is allegedly the "Sports Editor for BBC News" whatever that means. He seems to flit around the world reporting things based on his own political prejudices. Today he has gone with a film crew to get 30 seconds of footage of the Newcastle United boss at a Pro-Am golf event.
Why isn't he in Switzerland covering the fraud trial of Platini and Blatter which opened today? This is the criminal case after CAS rejected Platini's appeal against his ban. So in this case CAS were the good guys. The media, especially the BBC, portrayed CAS as the bad guys when they cleared City and overturned our ban. Mind you I am sure Roan will get a nice lavish free lunch today at the Centurion Golf Club in Herts. Another example of the fearless journalism we have grown to expect from the BBC these days.
 
He's probably the office letch and rather than defend numerous sex charges, they keep him out of the office
 
Gordyola said:
If "sports washing" exists or even existed then its been an almighty failure

Would make far more sense to buy a media organisation and dictate the narrative like the owners of the NY Times or any of Murdoch's empire, could that be termed "media washing"?
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Yes and precisely what Lebedev has done with the Evening Standard and the Independent. Which employs lunatics like Delooney and Evans
 
Harris and all the other cronies with their sportswashing accusations need to take a long hard look at themselves and ask why this has only become a "thing" since our takeover.

Of course we know the answer really, politicising our club and owners gives them a lot more ammunition to fire at us.

I wish we would do our own "journalist washing" by not having them and their dirty accusations anywhere near our premises or employees.

It seems to me that City have been responsible for a plethora of new words and sayings, as I dont recall hearing such things as sportswashing.....dirty oil money.....financial fair play.....money club....etc before 2008.

These pricks have tried to make all of the above slurs synonymous with our club in an "organised and clear" assault on Manchester City and its owners worth in the world of football.

My own suspicions are that the yank sports owners are happy to pay journalistic whores to carry out their "soiling" of their competitors reputations.

I also think that our owners have done a fantastic job in riding out this shite, by probably taking enough unplublicised action where it matters to them most.

Meanwhile we still have the "little maggots" like harris and roan etc to keep us entertained on this thread, lets face it there would be a lot less to complain about without their inane ramblings.

Also, It looks like some of them are making themselves ill with their hatred and mud slinging, so there is a silver lining.
 
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