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Manchester Evening News
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nomorethaksintimes
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A city like Manchester deserves a higher quality of journalism than the MEN's pathetic daily output - it's not even a proper regional paper anymore since the Trinity Mirror takeover. It offers absolutely zero political balance or the kind of high-quality reporting you'd expect from a major city newspaper. The standard of writing is poor (not surprising when you hear some of their journos on video!) and the gossip which passes for headline content seems to be doing its best to portray Manchester as a provincial market town. Whenever I see vendors selling it in the centre, I cringe at the headlines revolving around where Corrie actors had their tea or the last sightings of Purple Aki.
Regardless of their latest bungling of the facts, the sooner that rag closes down the better.
Regardless of their latest bungling of the facts, the sooner that rag closes down the better.
DenisLawBackHeel74
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Ric said:moomba said:Ha ha, Ric has had a right of reply if anyone wants to c&p.
Or "Rick" as they call me. Thanks for that Stewart.
Anyway, for anyone interested:
An article published on the MEN website on Wednesday which subsequently appeared in the Thursday print edition caused a storm of angry reaction from Manchester City fans.
We felt it appropriate to give the fans a chance to have their say and asked Rick Turner from Bluemoon <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk</a> to respond on their behalf. Here is his response:
David Lynch’s recent article regarding a handful of empty seats during City’s game against Chelsea provoked an angry response from Blues on forums and social media. Football fans rarely respond well to perceived criticism of their club, but Lynch’s piece caused particular ire; it was not only ill-judged, but had no basis in fact.
His argument that City “cannot ignore the… swathes of empty seats”, and as such should reconsider their expansion plans, was rendered absurd by one simple fact: that the game had sold out two weeks previously.
To illustrate his point, Lynch had crudely Photoshopped red circles around individual seats – even though the pictures clearly showed fans walking down the aisles to the aforementioned seats. The article neglected to mention the heavy traffic congestion that had threatened to delay kick-off, and also ignored the fact that the game had been rearranged to a Monday evening, meaning many young season tickets were unable to attend. Indeed, one of the images used in the article showed the Family Stand!
Lynch is, of course, entitled to his opinion but as a journalist he has a responsibility to ensure that what he is writing is factually correct, which clearly wasn’t the case. The article demonstrated a complete lack of research.
It has been reported today that City plan to add an extra 14,000 seats by expanding both the North and South Stands, and the evidence is that the increased capacity is required. There is currently a season ticket waiting list of around 5000, and the vast majority of league games are sold out, with City’s average league attendance of 47,127 the fourth highest in the country.
The recent F.A. Cup game against Watford was also a sell-out, despite the national trend of dwindling crowds in the competition, showing what can be achieved with fair pricing structures. City deserve credit for the “kids for a quid” scheme they ran for that game, and also the £299 “value” season cards on offer, which are the cheapest in the Premiership.
The stadium expansion would take the capacity to around 62,000, the second largest in the country, and the club are clearly confident that the demand exists. I suspect one or two empty seats at a sold out fixture won’t be of great concern.
By Ric Turner, Bluemoon forum
Very good Ric, an erudite response to an ill informed and frankly juvenile article.
City Raider
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wow, so even after brennan's 'outrage' it made print
it's hard to know the internal politics at play here - at best brennan is trying his best in an organisation that has clearly lost any respect for city fans
at worst, he's complicit, coming on here with the odd 'it was ill-judged' comment, just to give the impression someone at the paper gives a shit - before returning to the inner sanctum and being part of the decision to print - our reaction has created 'a story' so let's run it - who cares if it's basically a lie, a story is more important than the truth to most journos
i know which way i'm leaning! brennan said himself his main concern in coming on here is to correct posters errors before they become 'fact' were his words i think....shouldn't he be more concerned with correcting errors where he works before they become fact? his rebuttal article was not strong enough for someone in our corner
it's hard to know the internal politics at play here - at best brennan is trying his best in an organisation that has clearly lost any respect for city fans
at worst, he's complicit, coming on here with the odd 'it was ill-judged' comment, just to give the impression someone at the paper gives a shit - before returning to the inner sanctum and being part of the decision to print - our reaction has created 'a story' so let's run it - who cares if it's basically a lie, a story is more important than the truth to most journos
i know which way i'm leaning! brennan said himself his main concern in coming on here is to correct posters errors before they become 'fact' were his words i think....shouldn't he be more concerned with correcting errors where he works before they become fact? his rebuttal article was not strong enough for someone in our corner
Prestwich_Blue
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Perhaps it was a clever move by our media team to deflect attention away from Monday's game.
jay_mcfc said:Think people should lay off Stuart now. He's had the decency to come on here and have his say and clearly he's not in agreement with the article. I'd be pretty surprised if Lynch writes another article for the MEN again judging by Stuart's last comments so that's good enough for me, though an apology wouldn't go amiss either.
1 Corinthians 12:14-20 to quote scripture again. Stuart is a part of the MEN whether he likes it or not. He cannot distance himself from this action. The printed version means the MEN has no remorse about the original, and despite all the objections from us, it stands by its story. There is a tease about some changes that are about to happen, but they intend to make maximum profit from it first.
If you have any integrity Stuart, you will be looking to get out of that dying organisation as soon as possible.
SilvaisSkyBlue
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An excellent response fron Rob Pollard, don't think posted in here as yet.
Link below but I am unable to c&p from Phone.
<a class="postlink" href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1950517-criticism-of-empty-seats-misguided-as-man-city-move-closer-to-stadium-expansion" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1950 ... -expansion</a>
Link below but I am unable to c&p from Phone.
<a class="postlink" href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1950517-criticism-of-empty-seats-misguided-as-man-city-move-closer-to-stadium-expansion" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1950 ... -expansion</a>
cityok
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also the £299 “value” season cards on offer, which are the cheapest in the Premiership.
Premier League!! sorry it's a bugbear.
Otherwise - Top notch response!
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cityok said:also the £299 “value” season cards on offer, which are the cheapest in the Premiership.
Premier League!! sorry it's a bugbear.
Otherwise - Top notch response!
You're both wrong. It's the EPL. As you were.