Media Discussion - 2023/24

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Bert Swift said:
Football Coverage in The Telegraph and Preferential Treatment Given to LFC

The Telegraph, along with the Times, the Sun, the Guardian and the Observer, stopped sharing print data In December 2019. The Telegraph`s circulation was then 317,817, down from 1.4m in 1980. It has since focused on its subscriber and on-line strategy.

The Telegraph has grown its number of paying subscribers, reporting 586,867 digital subscriptions in December 2022 out of a total of 733,731 subscriptions across print and digital.

The all things LFC football writer, Chris Bascombe, therefore has potentially a wide and significant reach.

It is reasonable to ask how has he gained this privileged position ? And, who pays him - The Telegraph or LFC or a contribution from both ?

He has been allocated a special, focussed role, to generally write positively about Liverpool, negatively about Everton, weave in sleights about City and, when all is not sweetness and light at LFC, sympathetically explain why and how it will soon be better.

Yesterday Bascombe produced a long article on LFC`s cash injection. In essence, FSG and their advisors did not undertake a "search" for investors but talked to a couple of their rich American friends / contacts who then formed a new company in late 2022 which they named, `Dynasty` (yes, some of you may well recall Joan Collins).

The new `Dynasty` came into existence with FSG`s Vice-President as a senior Advisor. to the little company. It has now pumped in up to £164m to clear LFC`s debts for the new Anfield Road extension and their training facility. `Dynasty` has only made one `investment` - yes, just LFC !

What has LFC chumming up with fellow Americans who just love soccer, got to do with City? The answer is nothing. Yet, this journalist weaved in the following :-

"Questions are bound to be asked if the Dynasty injection is enough in a world of £115 million defensive midfielders and where the wait goes on to see if Manchester City face a reckoning for the 115 charges against them after alleged overspending to gain a competitive advantage. City deny wrongdoing.

There may be an existential question for Liverpool to ponder later if the Premier League becomes awash with state-owned clubs who circumnavigate what increasingly appear to be no more than ceremonial regulations."

This is deliberate and calculated. Is he being paid extra to write this?

He has mentioned £115m for defensive midfielders, presumably Caicedo, without mentioning that Chelsea bought him after Liverpool`s offer of £111m, which Carragher was so excited about, was rejected. However he purposely places City in the same sentence and then goes on to bring up charges and follows on with state-owned clubs.

This is not isolated. Almost every other day there is an article from him which skews the real position and drip feeds an unbalanced and biased opinion into the public consciousness.

It has been much debated previously. Is there anything that can be done about the innuendo, twisting, lies and utter bull shit ?
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Can you super dooper like a post?
 
wolviedinho said:


This is how I imagine Pep deals with these pricks in his head while answering another inane question.
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He made Dunn look stupid at a press conference a couple of year's ago so he's took his ball home, been negative ever since. These walkers love to give it out with the pen but cannot take it back.
 
What's astonishing (not!) is that it's not simply the tabloids who pour fuel on the fire, but the alleged broadsheets as well.

The gonad and the daily heil are almost interchangeable in their vitreol for us. Tempting to say that these dinosaurs have had their day, but as print media dies, the clickbait operation online becomes more poisonous.

What for me is more puzzling is innuendo, false reporting and outright lies that the bbc and sly come out with, year after year. I was always a bit incredulous about some of the more mad conspiracy theories our fans came out with. Then you look at the reporting of everything from CAS to Mendy and think we're not paranoid enough!!!

There Centurions season and winning the domestic clean sweep, now the Real Treble, proper trousers at half mast for these snivelling wretches!

A big thank you to the leading lights of churnalism and to our very special friends at the red shirt FA for inspiring our amazing manager and marvellous team to greater and greater heights. It simply wouldn't be possible without you, lads!

It would be a terrible shame if stories started coming out about what you're really like... ........... though to be honest most of you live in your mum's spare room and don't have the social skills!
 
Aba452 said:
What's astonishing (not!) is that it's not simply the tabloids who pour fuel on the fire, but the alleged broadsheets as well.

The gonad and the daily heil are almost interchangeable in their vitreol for us. Tempting to say that these dinosaurs have had their day, but as print media dies, the clickbait operation online becomes more poisonous.

What for me is more puzzling is innuendo, false reporting and outright lies that the bbc and sly come out with, year after year. I was always a bit incredulous about some of the more mad conspiracy theories our fans came out with. Then you look at the reporting of everything from CAS to Mendy and think we're not paranoid enough!!!

There Centurions season and winning the domestic clean sweep, now the Real Treble, proper trousers at half mast for these snivelling wretches!

A big thank you to the leading lights of churnalism and to our very special friends at the red shirt FA for inspiring our amazing manager and marvellous team to greater and greater heights. It simply wouldn't be possible without you, lads!

It would be a terrible shame if stories started coming out about what you're really like... ........... though to be honest most of you live in your mum's spare room and don't have the social skills!
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Aba452 said:
What's astonishing (not!) is that it's not simply the tabloids who pour fuel on the fire, but the alleged broadsheets as well.

The gonad and the daily heil are almost interchangeable in their vitreol for us. Tempting to say that these dinosaurs have had their day, but as print media dies, the clickbait operation online becomes more poisonous.

What for me is more puzzling is innuendo, false reporting and outright lies that the bbc and sly come out with, year after year. I was always a bit incredulous about some of the more mad conspiracy theories our fans came out with. Then you look at the reporting of everything from CAS to Mendy and think we're not paranoid enough!!!

There Centurions season and winning the domestic clean sweep, now the Real Treble, proper trousers at half mast for these snivelling wretches!

A big thank you to the leading lights of churnalism and to our very special friends at the red shirt FA for inspiring our amazing manager and marvellous team to greater and greater heights. It simply wouldn't be possible without you, lads!

It would be a terrible shame if stories started coming out about what you're really like... ........... though to be honest most of you live in your mum's spare room and don't have the social skills!
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Maybe if a large investment into a daily like the telegraph maybe from an obscure place like UAE shook it all up….

www.middleeasteye.net

The Telegraph sale: The UAE bid is a risk to press freedom

Questions linger about whether the paper could follow a policy of editorial non-interference under the ownership of the UAE, a country which ranks a dismal 119th in the world press freedom index
www.middleeasteye.net www.middleeasteye.net
 
Bar the bbc every other media outlet is a private business and free to publish their angle based on their own beliefs.

Don't get why so many get so vexed by some twat in the guarduan , mail or times. they can and will have their opinion, it is down to the club to legally challenge if anything is remiss

and of the 3 papers quoted you have a liberal and 2 right wing papers so always pro anything american and anti anything east or south of the med, balkans and baltic states

I expect nothing but vitriol, negativity and borderline racism from any print media in this country as all are that way inclined when it comes to Asia, Africa and the Persian Gulf

The state broadcaster however needs to be impartial which it sadly isn't
 
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