Hughes calls for clarity over Tevez row, MuEN block comments

[quiet_riot]

Without a shadow of a doubt Balotelli would get the same treatment as a Utd player, if he was doing the same stuff. I know the national paper lads who cover Utd, and believe me, there is no love lost.
Are you suggesting the nationals ignored the Wayne Rooney sex scandals, or Giggs, or de Gea nicking a doughnut? Or hundreds of other Utd stories?
A story is a story is a story, and the bigger name the player, the bigger the club, the better.

I'm still waiting to hear of a City story that would not have been reported had i been at Utd.
Just saying WTF??!! is not an answer

And yet, the MEN (to my limited knowledge) didn't write a single thing about Giggs banging his sister-in-law.

 

[stuart brennan]

And yet, the MEN (to my limited knowledge) didn't write a single thing about Giggs banging his sister-in-law.

The MEN tends to steer clear of such NotW type stories - can you name a sex scandal that we did give coverage to, unless it had a wider public interest?

We actually covered the Giggs story when it turned into a debate about the role of Twitter, and tge use or abuse of parliamentary privilege, here:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1421660_twitter-gagging-row-i-have-no-regrets-over-naming-ryan-giggs-says-mp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... gs-says-mp</a>

 

[bernabias home shirt]

And yet, the MEN (to my limited knowledge) didn't write a single thing about Giggs banging his sister-in-law.

The MEN tends to steer clear of such NotW type stories - can you name a sex scandal that we did give coverage to, unless it had a wider public interest?

We actually covered the Giggs story when it turned into a debate about the role of Twitter, and tge use or abuse of parliamentary privilege, here:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1421660_twitter-gagging-row-i-have-no-regrets-over-naming-ryan-giggs-says-mp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... gs-says-mp</a>

And we have a winner,fergie would of had your bollocks if youd of printed that, it was front & back page in every paper going.....A Major Major story yet you turned the other cheek!

 

[stony]

And yet, the MEN (to my limited knowledge) didn't write a single thing about Giggs banging his sister-in-law.

The MEN tends to steer clear of such NotW type stories - can you name a sex scandal that we did give coverage to, unless it had a wider public interest?

We actually covered the Giggs story when it turned into a debate about the role of Twitter, and tge use or abuse of parliamentary privilege, here:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1421660_twitter-gagging-row-i-have-no-regrets-over-naming-ryan-giggs-says-mp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... gs-says-mp</a>

How can you claim there wasn't a wider public interest in the Giggs story?

This is a man who had been held up as a shining example of how Premiership players should conduct themselves. He has earned money by trading on his image of a hard working pro and family man.
He was even touted for a knighthood. Just how is that not in the public interest?

 

[80s Shorts]

are you saying that if he were a rag Balotelli would have the same media "treatment" that he had being a City player ?

let me have the benefit of the doubt

Without a shadow of a doubt Balotelli would get the same treatment as a Utd player, if he was doing the same stuff. I know the national paper lads who cover Utd, and believe me, there is no love lost.
Are you suggesting the nationals ignored the Wayne Rooney sex scandals, or Giggs, or de Gea nicking a doughnut? Or hundreds of other Utd stories?
A story is a story is a story, and the bigger name the player, the bigger the club, the better.

I'm still waiting to hear of a City story that would not have been reported had i been at Utd.
Just saying WTF??!! is not an answer

How many stories were written in the MuEN regarding Mr Ryan Giggs (the model pro and family man) shagging his brothers missus for eight years ?

 

[quiet_riot]

And yet, the MEN (to my limited knowledge) didn't write a single thing about Giggs banging his sister-in-law.

The MEN tends to steer clear of such NotW type stories - can you name a sex scandal that we did give coverage to, unless it had a wider public interest?

We actually covered the Giggs story when it turned into a debate about the role of Twitter, and tge use or abuse of parliamentary privilege, here:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1421660_twitter-gagging-row-i-have-no-regrets-over-naming-ryan-giggs-says-mp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... gs-says-mp</a>

A 'NotW type story' that was covered by EVERY paper, broadsheets and all, such was its impact with regards to social networking legalities, super-injunctions and what have you.

 

[edgecroft]

How's this for sports reporting, Stuart Brennan?

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2035994/Back-Europe-41-years-Manchester-City-face-image-problem.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... oblem.html</a>

 

[2sheikhs]

are you saying that if he were a rag Balotelli would have the same media "treatment" that he had being a City player ?

let me have the benefit of the doubt

Without a shadow of a doubt Balotelli would get the same treatment as a Utd player, if he was doing the same stuff. I know the national paper lads who cover Utd, and believe me, there is no love lost.
Are you suggesting the nationals ignored the Wayne Rooney sex scandals, or Giggs, or de Gea nicking a doughnut? Or hundreds of other Utd stories?
A story is a story is a story, and the bigger name the player, the bigger the club, the better.

I'm still waiting to hear of a City story that would not have been reported had i been at Utd.
Just saying WTF??!! is not an answer

Stuart, do you ever watch/listen to press conferences with ferguson? Nobody dares ask him anything controversial or calls his judgement into question. Mancini seems to be on the defensive most of the time. Rooney is older than Balotelli and sometimes captains utd so should show more responsibility, yet on and off the pitch, he's a disgusting waste of skin. If the media in general don't show bias to utd, then why was the friendly against Monaco covered on sky and bbc updates until they realised they were getting heavily beaten? As far as the press were concerned, that match didn't exist. They beat Barca in a freindly and all of a sudden it's revenge for the CL final!! I am grateful to you though for coming on here to discuss things. Perhaps you could speak to some other journo's and persuade them to grow a pair and put their opinions to us.

 

[squirtyflower]

so a story with the headline 'bonkers balotelli' is more newsworthy than the longest serving player at stretford banging several women other than his wife and then trying to use the press to cover it up

lol you even continued the cover up after the ban had been lifted

 

[80s Shorts]

so a story with the headline 'bonkers balotelli' is more newsworthy than the longest serving player at stretford banging several women other than his wife and then trying to use the press to cover it up

lol you even continued the cover up after the ban had been lifted

Brennan has exposed himself as a fool, a liar or somebody with an agenda with his "NoTW" comment. The Giggs story was covered in every national tabloid and broadsheet.

No wonder they give brennans paper away for free.