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bluethrunthru said:
The concrete grower hard man Iron Mike being called out for whats likely the truth. The post was laden with expletives and anti-muslim tropes and was flagged to his employers at Talk TV who doubtless had a word in his shell like (to the effect - delete, apologise or you're sacked) and he did a climb down with a lame excuse

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Still got sacked

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Funny thing is Jeremy Kyle - who tweeted support for his friend the concrete farmer when this blew up is now covering for Graham. Kyle is an equally obnoxious twat so should fit in but people are turning on him saying his friendship was fake and saying he was helping oust Mike Graham - they very readily turn on their own don't they?
 
bluethrunthru said:
Ferrari is such a **** - I accept now he isn't a Tory because he is clearly now full on Reform - the way he is a fluffer for Farage shows that. The fact that she is Chancellor means thats why her husband was dealing with the house. Imagine if it was shown she abdicated her duties on the budget to deal with a home rental he'd be going demented

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He's always moaning that he can't get Sadiq Khan on his programme. SK is probably one of the most interviewed politicians on radio as he does a full hour with James O'Brien every month. However the likes of Farage/Tice/30p won't go anywhere near JO'B after Farage's absolute mauling last time ( I think Farage's minder called time after he was handed his arese inside out several times).

It's like Fat Ferrari is unaware that SK puts himself up every month for an hour, and JO'B doesn't hold back in those phone-ins and interviews.

I've been on his show several times and you have to work really hard to get a point across uninterrupted if it goes even slightly against his RW agenda.
 
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Gorton_Tubster said:
Nowadays I usually get my news from Bluemoon.
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Certainly when it comes to City news.

You only need to look at the media thread on the BM forum to see the way so many mainstream media avenues report about City, often in bad faith, negativity or lies, to see why Bluemoon and maybe the main City app/site would be our first port of call for City news. Forums like this and on social media has made sports journalism very second-hand with news in the last decade or so.
 
MellowJoe said:
General news - Radio 4, it used to be radio 5, but I had to scrap my car and the replacement Punto doesn't do AM for some reason. (Driver's side door doesn't open either from the inside, I just climb out the window) Quite liked hearing Nicky Campbell's voice in the morning, and Claire Ronacres'. ''I'm Claire Ronacres''
Scottish politics - my mum. She's not even Scottish, i don't know what's going on there.
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That's funny, cos I had one of those Flying Fleas, 126, or was it a 124. Never got beyond white noise when the radio went onto AM.
 
.db. said:
Certainly when it comes to City news.

You only need to look at the media thread on the BM forum to see the way so many mainstream media avenues report about City, often in bad faith, negativity or lies, to see why Bluemoon and maybe the main City app/site would be our first port of call for City news. Forums like this and on social media has made sports journalism very second-hand with news in the last decade or so.
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Across wider sport; the saturation of mainstream media with football makes getting any in-depth news on any other sports difficult to attain. Football must take up 95% of the airtime on most media channels like Sky Sports News and talkSPORT. On Sundays now, PL games are even on the Sky Sports Tennis, Crciket and F1 channels.

Not only is the oversaturation of football bad for anyone with an interest in other sports, but it’s bad for other sports with regards to exposure to gain interest which leads to issues with attendances and participation etc.

I’m a rugby league fan and the BBC and Sky spend more time reporting on women’s football than it does men’s rugby league. However, the average Women’s Super League football attendance was 6,662 last season; when the average men’s rugby league Super League attendance was 10,044 last season. Why should the lesser sport get more exposure? Sky have dwindled down daily evening RL highlights, chat and magazine programming which used to be Monday to Thursday to a 5-minute slot once a week on SSN, and reduced the broadcasting revenue by £15m a year.

I don’t like how American sports get so much exposure in Britain either. American football can be on four different channels on a Sunday evening across terrestrial and Sky TV. NFL average ball-in-play is 5.97% for fuck’s sake, it’s shite! We should be promoting and looking after our own sports and making sure coverage, investment, attendances and participation remain high in our sports from our own cultural point-of-view. Mainstream media is obsessed with pushing everything ‘U-S-A’ at us. It’s all over the News, it’s all over the sports channels.

When it comes to non-sports media, I always tended to look to the BBC because they would usually have a reputation of reporting things that were facts so you didn’t mind waiting for the truth rather than looking elsewhere for speculation.

However, these days, that isn’t a given. Panorama has been shown as being dubious with information about Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump and even Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (and they aren’t difficult to make look bad using facts!)… and when you do a bit of searching, you find they’ve been doing this for some time, here’s just one example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ama-s-mistake-into-a-catastrophe-2299729.html

Plus the BBC do seem to have political leanings with their news output when you think they should be neutral. Rather than being neutral I find they try and give left and right a voice or allow left or right to drive the background theme of a story (I don’t know if they have specific focus groups driving stories or programming sometimes, but a lot seem to come from the viewpoint of a political leaning or bias). They probably do this because they think that balance is fair; have a bit of left, a bit of centrist and a bit of right… but balance isn’t neutrality and is a bit naïve because it allows for propaganda on each side to gain exposure.

You want the BBC to be boring because factual neutrality is boring compared to biased leanings which tend to push you to think a certain way… I don’t think we get boring factual neutrality from the BBC so much (which is why the left think it’s too right wing and the right think it’s too left wing), and certainly not from any other media avenues.

So, I watch Sky and the BBC much less than I used to, across many areas of media from sport to news.

Although, BBC do still have a lot of good coverage of science and history documentaries which I watch regularly.

Where I want the BBC to have boring factual neitrality, I use newspapers to give me my flitting biases from different political perspectives.

I don’t have any subscriptions to any online newspaper sites. Instead, I just Google what news I want information on and don’t mind if it’s The Telegraph or The Guardian, maybe even both, and anything in between.

I don’t think only exposing yourself to one way of thinking is good so I’d never just read only left wing or only right wing papers. One side is never always right; biases make that impossible.

Overall, get the boring neutral facts from the BBC (if they’d just bloody stick to that) and the range of views across different newspaper sites. For the lack of depth from mainstream media into different sports, I go to YouTube for some video podcasts or IPTV and watch the Aussie Fox sports channels for rugby league coverage.
 
Marklr said:
I wonder why he felt the need to carry pepper spray that day?
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It’s a couple of yanks with high profile Facebook accounts, she does anyway. Look like socialites. She was going bonkers in a shop earlier throwing shit off shelves.

Sound like a right pair of cunts to me.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
That's clearly a parody account but people like you seem not to know the difference between reality and fantasy.
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Ayoub Khan is MP for Perry Bar Birmingham.

Iain Dale did make the tweet he referred to was sent by Iain Dale to Mr Khan ( who is also a lawyer so probs not the best idea ) - this was the same weekend Mike Graham got the bullet for something similar. Khan threatened Dale with legal action and given what had happened to Graham and seeing the potential ruin he faced Dale issued that apology.

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