Manchester Evening News

[TCIB]

Site going bonkers tonight with all the users watching this thread hehe.

 

[Kenney_The_Blue]

Stuart Brennan's reply

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Good man

 

[whp.blue]

I am as staggered at this article as the rest of you, and have made my views known to David and to our online operation, as have one or two other journalists.
In fact, I have just written a reply to David's article which is due to go online shortly - apologies in advance if it is misses any points, but it had to be done quickly.
All I can say is that David is entitled to his opinion.

This bullshit by Brennan is purely an exercise in Damage limitation for his ailing rag and very little to do with the fact that once agin this rag has an anti-City agenda

 

[Chris in London]

I am as staggered at this article as the rest of you, and have made my views known to David and to our online operation, as have one or two other journalists.
In fact, I have just written a reply to David's article which is due to go online shortly - apologies in advance if it is misses any points, but it had to be done quickly.
All I can say is that David is entitled to his opinion.

This bullshit by Brennan is purely an exercise in Damage limitation for his ailing rag and very little to do with the fact that once agin this rag has an anti-City agenda


you can say that again.

 

[stuart brennan]

I see Stuart & Keegan have not answered the question which has been asked many times
Who was responsible for that article going to print,was it the editor?

No. The editor couldn't possibly get involved in going over every thing that gets published. It will have got the once-over from someone else on the web team, who operate semi-independently to the newspaper staff.<br /><br />-- Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:19 pm --<br /><br />

I see Stuart & Keegan have not answered the question which has been asked many times
Who was responsible for that article going to print,was it the editor?

No. The editor couldn't possibly get involved in going over every thing that gets published. It will have got the once-over from someone else on the web team, who operate semi-independently to the newspaper staff.

 

[whp.blue]

[sorry for that some sort of glitch

 

[lust overlord]

this made me laugh

Pete Marshall ‏@petemarshall7 1h
@MENnewsdesk Keyboard warriors out in force to attack @david_lynch88 Wonder how many would actually say some of that to his face?
I
id have to let my ten year old say it to his face only fair!

This is sounding more and more like a facebook / twitter exchange of a 12 year old. I'm not the biggest fan of the MEN but there are some good articles on there at times. Lynch has just come across as a kid trying to make a reputation for himself with an extremely poor story which if any editor at a reputable media outlet reviewed, would of kicked out instantly. Now they have the news desk tweeting almost subtle threats that if anyone challenged him face to face they would regret it. I almost think thats worse than the article itself.

Pete Marshall does not work for the M.E.N. - I think he was tweeting our newsdesk. Stu's article will be up shortly and I'd be amazed if it wasn't a total opposite to what went up earlier.

Any chance of replying to prestwich blues questions?
Or are you going to leave poor old Stuart to do all the PR?
Edit just see Stuarts reply above.
So the Web team at the MEN can pretty much do what they like then?

 

[Nelly's Left Foot]

So we have the initial article, which is clear garbage and we have a sensible reply from Stuart countering it.

I wonder what,if anything, will be picked up and "copied" by the nationals or radio programmes like Talk Shite?

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Considering Manchester is such a forward thinking and cosmopolitan city, I've never understood why the local paper is so fucking awful.

Rags and scousers should probably try to concentrate on winning a trophy in the present or future (not historically like a Jimmy Savile sex case) rather than shitty City's seating plans.

Small minds and all that.

 

[HelloCity]

Andy Goldstein said on the radio after the match that 'it was disappointing to see so many empty seats at the Etihad for such a big game. I just need to point that out'.

He's a cockney United fan who ruined Soccer AM.<br /><br />-- Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:28 pm --<br /><br />Andy Goldstein said on the radio after the match that 'it was disappointing to see so many empty seats at the Etihad for such a big game. I just need to point that out'.

He's a cockney United fan who ruined Soccer AM.