Media discussion - 2025/26

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deano ou812 said:
He’s pointing out that why if you watch sky Amazon itv so on why do you have to pay the BBC licence if you don’t watch the BBC,which in fairness he’s correct,he’s using the supermarkets as a comparison..
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Do any of the supermarkets show live Premier League games?
 
bluetonium said:
BBC's most recent city articles:

Does Guardiola have a Foden problem?

"The goods news is we go through"

"Not what I expected" - Trafford on Man City back-up role

From 'demoralising' 8-0 defeat to pushing Man City all the way

Analysis: City struggle to get the job done


Also, the license fee is going up to £180. That's the cost for netflix for nearly three years, prime for two. Can anyone join the dots and predict the future?
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That foden piece is just weird.
 
The Telegraph were allowed access to Salford City's changing room at half time on Saturday.
According to the reporter Salford were unlucky not to go in at halftime level, indeed they were unlucky not to be 2-1 ahead ! It also mentions they were denied a clear penalty that Var would have given in the 2nd half.

It sounds a great game what a shame I chose to watch a different game between the 2 teams.
 
Blue Mist said:
The Telegraph were allowed access to Salford City's changing room at half time on Saturday.
According to the reporter Salford were unlucky not to go in at halftime level, indeed they were unlucky not to be 2-1 ahead ! It also mentions they were denied a clear penalty that Var would have given in the 2nd half.

It sounds a great game what a shame I chose to watch a different game between the 2 teams.
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Every game is a different game from what we see and read in the media, even rewatching a live game never does the match justice, the comm team lie in plain sight on incidents and tell us we haven't seen what they've just shown along with saying nothing about things such as time wasting unless we take the odd second over what they seem we should do.
 
Blue Mist said:
The Telegraph were allowed access to Salford City's changing room at half time on Saturday.
According to the reporter Salford were unlucky not to go in at halftime level, indeed they were unlucky not to be 2-1 ahead ! It also mentions they were denied a clear penalty that Var would have given in the 2nd half.

It sounds a great game what a shame I chose to watch a different game between the 2 teams.
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No mention of a shocking offside decision, where the player playing Marmoush was in his direct line of vision?
Did they mention Stones being grabbed by the neck at a corner, that VAR would've given as a penalty.

Did they also mention the lad, who got booked for a really poor challenge after about 5 minutes had already committed a poor challenge in the first 2 minutes????

Just wondering?
 
The BBC

“Watch highlights as an early flurry of Arsenal goals saw them ease to a comfortable victory over Wigan to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup.”

If that was us:

“A team of multi millionaires only manage a second half draw against a manager-less team twenty second in league one who sacked their manager following a 6-1 defeat to Peterborough”
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
No mention of a shocking offside decision, where the player playing Marmoush was in his direct line of vision?
Did they mention Stones being grabbed by the neck at a corner, that VAR would've given as a penalty.

Did they also mention the lad, who got booked for a really poor challenge after about 5 minutes had already committed a poor challenge in the first 2 minutes????

Just wondering?
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Selective reporting to suit your needs.
The reason that 'Salford could've been 2-1 up at half-time' but weren't is because they're not good enough.
The game is the game - the rest just gossip.
 
mad4city said:
The BBC is a long, long way off of being the institution it was set up to be. It definitely needs an overhaul under visionary leadership (whoever that may be, I don't know).

The question though, is not can the British people afford to have it but rather, can the British people afford to NOT have it.

Whatever way you look at it, it remains the last great media institition in Britain that is owned by the people of Britain.
Scrap the BBC and people like Murdoch or Musk will rush fill the void. And not for the love of the British people either.

Both the Tories (mostly, in my opinion) and Labour have both been responsible for the demise if the BBC. Soon, it looks like Reform will be in power (to a greater or lesser degree). As bad as the other two are, fascists (and that's exactly what Farage's miserable band of cunts are) wouldn't be renowned for trading in the nuances of truth.

Scrap the BBC and you flush away the British people's one and only hope of controlling the narrative.
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Well said
Despite my obvious and long stated disdain for the fact its football department has been captured by Nick Coppack and his gaggle of former MUTV alumni, the people who moan most about the BBC are right wing types groomed for decades by Murdoch and Rothermere papers. The Sun, the Times and the Mail in particular have been at it since the 80s, for purely venal, self serving and greedy reasons on behalf of their psychopathic owners
The fact that Tories with close links to the previous disastrous governments were parachuted into key senior positions seems to have been conveniently ignored by those idiots who still consider it a hotbed of communism
Is it flawed? Undoubtedly
Does it need reforming? 100%
But the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about. We’ve all seen the fucking state of GB News
As for the Netflix/Amazon straw man?
When they start doing live TV, multiple national, international and regional radio stations and websites, and local and regional rolling news, on top of world class original TV, then maybe you can start talking
 
LongsightM13 said:
Well said
Despite my obvious and long stated disdain for the fact its football department has been captured by Nick Coppack and his gaggle of former MUTV alumni, the people who moan most about the BBC are right wing types groomed for decades by Murdoch and Rothermere papers. The Sun, the Times and the Mail in particular have been at it since the 80s, for purely venal, self serving and greedy reasons on behalf of their psychopathic owners
The fact that Tories with close links to the previous disastrous governments were parachuted into key senior positions seems to have been conveniently ignored by those idiots who still consider it a hotbed of communism
Is it flawed? Undoubtedly
Does it need reforming? 100%
But the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about. We’ve all seen the fucking state of GB News
As for the Netflix/Amazon straw man?
When they start doing live TV, multiple national, international and regional radio stations and websites, and local and regional rolling news, on top of world class original TV, then maybe you can start talking
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The BBC should exist to cover news and current affairs both world wide , nationally and regionally. Should be free to all and paid out of general taxation. Entertainment and sport should be paid for by subscription so that pile of dog shit Eastenders can go behind a pay wall along with Wimbledon tennis which the middle classes can stump up for. I will never forgive them for getting into bed with Sky for highlights to deny ITV the chance to show Premier League football free to air. Without the cushion of the licence fee they would no longer be able to pay Inflated salary's to nonce's and rag lovers.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Well said
Despite my obvious and long stated disdain for the fact its football department has been captured by Nick Coppack and his gaggle of former MUTV alumni, the people who moan most about the BBC are right wing types groomed for decades by Murdoch and Rothermere papers. The Sun, the Times and the Mail in particular have been at it since the 80s, for purely venal, self serving and greedy reasons on behalf of their psychopathic owners
The fact that Tories with close links to the previous disastrous governments were parachuted into key senior positions seems to have been conveniently ignored by those idiots who still consider it a hotbed of communism
Is it flawed? Undoubtedly
Does it need reforming? 100%
But the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about. We’ve all seen the fucking state of GB News
As for the Netflix/Amazon straw man?
When they start doing live TV, multiple national, international and regional radio stations and websites, and local and regional rolling news, on top of world class original TV, then maybe you can start talking
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The BBC have backed the wrong horse - it would seem, they’ve thrown their weight behind Reform and the far right in quite a major way but Reform won’t support the BBC and will almost certainly defund it and promote GB News - it’s like a turkey voting for Christmas. I’m not a fan of the BBC it’s completely lost it’s way but it can and should play a vital role in reporting news in an impartial way but it’s stopped doing that to some extent and seems to feel the need to sensationalise everything and play the click bait game when it really shouldn’t.
 
nmc said:
The BBC have backed the wrong horse - it would seem, they’ve thrown their weight behind Reform and the far right in quite a major way but Reform won’t support the BBC and will almost certainly defund it and promote GB News - it’s like a turkey voting for Christmas. I’m not a fan of the BBC it’s completely lost it’s way but it can and should play a vital role in reporting news in an impartial way but it’s stopped doing that to some extent and seems to feel the need to sensationalise everything and play the click bait game when it really shouldn’t.
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Do reform voters agree that the BBC has backed them?
 
nmc said:
The BBC have backed the wrong horse - it would seem, they’ve thrown their weight behind Reform and the far right in quite a major way but Reform won’t support the BBC and will almost certainly defund it and promote GB News - it’s like a turkey voting for Christmas. I’m not a fan of the BBC it’s completely lost it’s way but it can and should play a vital role in reporting news in an impartial way but it’s stopped doing that to some extent and seems to feel the need to sensationalise everything and play the click bait game when it really shouldn’t.
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Can’t remember them being impartial, fk em
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
The BBC should exist to cover news and current affairs both world wide , nationally and regionally. Should be free to all and paid out of general taxation. Entertainment and sport should be paid for by subscription so that pile of dog shit Eastenders can go behind a pay wall along with Wimbledon tennis which the middle classes can stump up for. I will never forgive them for getting into bed with Sky for highlights to deny ITV the chance to show Premier League football free to air. Without the cushion of the licence fee they would no longer be able to pay Inflated salary's to nonce's and rag lovers.
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that salary point has annoyed me for a long time. Hugh Edwards £500k a year, Zoe fucking Ball £520k a year, Claudia Winckleman £500k, Alan Shearer £450k, Lineker £1.3m, Fiona Bruce £400k, Kusenburg £400k, Veron Kay £400k. Even Ros Atkins is on £300k and he does fuck all who presented City as guilty in a one-off biased "special". This is just ones listed as normal employees as well, any tax dodging people being paid by production companies (ie the whole Brendan O'Carroll family) are hidden. The list is almost endless, pure waste of cash on talentless boring wankers

all of them are absolute shit at what they do and could easily be replaced with people on a sensible £50k yearly wage. I've stopped paying my license as I find the above obscene
 
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