Hughes calls for clarity over Tevez row, MuEN block comments

[2sheikhs]

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.

I've been in dozens of Fergie's press conferences, and seen Fergie challenged and asked controversial stuff many times - often with interesting results!
Mancini is a different character, and not in as strong a position, so he deals with such things differently.
National newspapers are banned on a regular basis for writing stuff about Utd - there is a strong feeling at Utd that they have an anti-United agenda, again without any truth behind it.
Haven't a clue about the Monaco thing, but to suggest the BBC are pro-United is laughable, given that Fergie has only just started speaking to them again after years of boycott. Same with Sky.
Do you think all national football writers are Utd fans? I can think of three, out of a few dozen, who actually are

They don't have to be utd fans to still be sycophants, blowing smoke up taggarts scaley old arse. Look at the time shrek handed in his transfer request. All the media circled their wagons and courted the opinions of the usual suspects holloway/redknapp/wright etc to say how bad it was to treat the genius fergie in such a manner. Compare that to tevez and Mancini. The oxygen of publicity is given to slugs like joorabchian and hughes to spout their shite completely unchallenged. Mancini is 100% in the right in all of this but you wouldn't think so reading the papers.

 

[Welcome to Manchester]

At the end of the day Mr Brennan the MUEN pays your wages so you are hardly going to come on here and state that they are anti-City are you?

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

My own personal experience is that your paper is blatantly biased towards the rags.
I used to buy it and post on the website but stopped doing so a couple of years ago.
The reason for this is that perfectly reasonable and balanced comments, not offensive or factually incorrect that I attempted to post on the website were blocked by the "neutral" mods yet countless vile comments were allowed to be posted by rags covering anything from Marc Vivien Foe to racism many of which I had to complain about before they were removed.

When the chief sports editor of the local paper is invited onto national radio to talk about City he has an obligation to report the facts yet on numerous occasions he has used it as an opportunity to slate the club and turn it into a rag love in so for you to say that it is irrelevant who you follow when reporting is just laughable.
Your chief sports editor has been quoted several times over recent years making petty, childish anti- City comments.
As he is your immediate manager I don't expect you to come on here and criticise him but Pete "200 000 at the rag parade" Spence clearly has an anti-City agenda and when the chief sports editor is of this mindset what do you expect a lot of blues to think about the affiliation of the paper?

It isn't just me who thinks the MUEN is biased as several members of this forum have similar experiences to my own with our so-called local paper.

Fair play to you for coming on here but at the end of the day the MUEN pay your wages so you are bound to defend them just as I would if the source of my income was to receive criticism.

You have your opionions and I have mine but my OPINION is that it is biased.

 

[stuart brennan]

I can only say that my experience is that none of the national lads has an anti-City agenda. End of

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Granted, there is some utter crap talked in that clip.
But is that down to those journos having an anti-City agenda or, more likely because either
a) They are expressing their honest opinion or
b) They are trying to be provocative, something on which such shows, and Talksport, thrive.

I've see United ripped like that on Sunday Supplement, and just about every other club.
It's not about agendas, it's about opinions, wind-ups and selling papers.

 

[Damocles]

Correct through gritted teeth though,but still nice to see the smarmy twat say sorry..thanks again miss kloss!

Actually, it was nothing to do with Vicky Kloss in the original and came about by I emailed him and told him that he was wrong. He claimed to hear a report on Sky Sports News on the day of the Sunderland game that Mancini was in the stadium at the time, which was false, but the report did happen. SSN issued a correction around half time or something and it was never mentioned again. It was one of those things that he half remembered and built an entire foundation of logic on top of it. It doesn't help that he's a big mate of Hughes from his time at Chelsea (as he's a big Chelsea fan). He thought he was sticking up for his mate against disgraceful behaviour.

When he looked into it (luckily, Mancini gave an interview on the same day to Sky Italia), he immediately rang Vicky Kloss off of his own back to apologise, then issued an apology live on air the next week.

I've still got the email chains in my inbox probably.

 

[johnny crossan]

Just for reference

Hate Fuelled Envy broadcast - November 21 2010

Two word unspecified broadcast "apology" January 9th 2011

But check out all the other biased slime on Sky for yourself if you've got a few hours
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/johnnycrossan?feature=mhee" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/user/johnnycrossan?feature=mhee</a>

For a blue to seek to defend these hacks or deny the anti City Sky agenda is (putting it as inoffensively as possible) despicable.

 

[TCIB]

I still wanna peel his skin of with a rusty bread knife, seems a pretty vile person and not the sort of guy you have on your xmas card list.

He is a reporter right ? that goes of hearsay and basically anything that justifies his own view on us or he can trwist to justify i should say. Lazy journo hack at best imo.

 

[stuart brennan]

At the end of the day Mr Brennan the MUEN pays your wages so you are hardly going to come on here and state that they are anti-City are you?

No. The reason I came on here to state that the MEN is not anti-City is because it isn't.
You can obnviously believe what you want, but you are plain wrong. I work there, every day, and see what people say, and what gos on, and know about editorial policy and so on.
You selectively read what you want to read, and hear what you want to hear. It is you who have the agenda.

On that note, I'd better get some bloody work done, or I'll be getting the sack.
And you can pack in that cheering as well!

 

[bernabias home shirt]

Correct through gritted teeth though,but still nice to see the smarmy twat say sorry..thanks again miss kloss!

Actually, it was nothing to do with Vicky Kloss in the original and came about by I emailed him and told him that he was wrong. He claimed to hear a report on Sky Sports News on the day of the Sunderland game that Mancini was in the stadium at the time, which was false, but the report did happen. SSN issued a correction around half time or something and it was never mentioned again. It was one of those things that he half remembered and built an entire foundation of logic on top of it. It doesn't help that he's a big mate of Hughes from his time at Chelsea (as he's a big Chelsea fan). He thought he was sticking up for his mate against disgraceful behaviour.

When he looked into it (luckily, Mancini gave an interview on the same day to Sky Italia), he immediately rang Vicky Kloss off of his own back to apologise, then issued an apology live on air the next week.

I've still got the email chains in my inbox probably.

Fair enough...I know that their was a thread on this and some posters had emailed vicky and she had emailed them back stating beasley(****) would be apologising on the next show he was on....

 

[Lucky13]

Just for reference

Hate Fuelled Envy broadcast - November 21 2010

Two word unspecified broadcast "apology" January 9th 2011

But check out all the other biased slime on Sky for yourself if you've got a few hours
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/johnnycrossan?feature=mhee" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/user/johnnycrossan?feature=mhee</a>

For a blue to seek to defend these hacks or deny the anti City Sky agenda is (putting it as inoffensively as possible) despicable.

Quality post.

 

[quiet_riot]

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>

Yet didn't feel the need to grant Stephen Ireland the same reverence in 2007 when his misdeeds came up on Bebo?

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/football/manchester_city/s/1016955_city_play_down_ireland_web_talk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... d_web_talk</a>

How is that relevant - surely a City player appearing to suggest he doesn't like football and got stuck playing it, is relevant?
We didn't carry anything about Mario's tangled love life, or any of the other sleazy stuff concerning City stars

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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.

Jesus H Christ! I said that we DID cover it. Have you clicked on the link, here it is again:

<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>

We covered it in the same way the broadsheets covered it, not as a sex scandal but as a story of public interest

Whilst I'm digressing your point slightly, that article doesn't mention Giggs' banging of his brother's wife, just that he was alleged to have had an affair with her off Big Brother.

Now, if you were truly fair, surely at that point, no more damage could be done to his character, so relating the facts would have been warranted, no? Or is this more evidence of being scared of the big red Scotsman?