Media Discussion - 2023/24

[PPT]

Rio Ferdinand cheated on wife with at least 10 women, the High Court is told

www.mirror.co.uk

And that's only the 10 that got named...

 

[r.soleofsalford]

If you think the Mail is bad then you need to avoid the Express ( part of the Reach / ManUMirror / Liverpool Echo ? stable ) The Express is always incredibly bad. Today's Express "Football" Page headlines, as usual, go back 4 days : ( and bear in mind City played on Tuesday ) - there are 91 articles about the rags / 4 articles about City ( 1 of which is about the 115 charges and another being a hit job on Haaland )
It is always thus.

Cunts

 

[Mr Fraser]

Did they win in any of them ?

but they got B- for European performance the season from the guardian today, same mark a guess who

 

[CityFil]

BBC Breakfast, ( I have it on as background noise today as hub in hospital). Sports section. Fair enough Newcastle were robbed, scant mention of City winning, a film of Garnachio giving his boots to some kid at Carrington. And then the push for Bellingham Balon Dor begins with a 4 minute film about him. Jeez it annoys me. Naked on winner next season.

Just listening to BBC radio 4 news now.
I think they appear to be doing a thing about “the best footballer in the world”
(their words, not mine)
Guess who that might be?
Do the bbc have an agenda?

 

[CityFil]

Just listening to BBC radio 4 news now.
I think they appear to be doing a thing about “the best footballer in the world”
(their words, not mine)
Guess who that might be?
Do the bbc have an agenda?

To add to this, they actually said something like “he’s only 19”

 

[jrb]

The culture and media secretary has intervened to scrutinise a sale of the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator magazine to a company backed by the Abu Dhabi ruling family.

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, best known in the UK for his ownership of Manchester City football club, has thrown his considerable financial heft behind RedBird IMI, the investment consortium looking to take control of the Telegraph and the Spectator.

As the BBC reported on Wednesday, the Secretary of State, Lucy Frazer, did not feel it appropriate to intervene in a debt repayment transaction.

However, as she has previously indicated and now confirmed, the transfer of the politically important titles to what is essentially a foreign power is a matter the UK government and other regulators need to scrutinise.

But former editors, senior politicians and grassroots Conservatives have voiced grave concerns about the deal.

Simply put, the Barclay family, who have twisted and turned for many years from Lloyds to preserve their ownership of the Telegraph, have now replaced their Lloyds debt with a debt to the Abu Dhabi royal family.

Sheikh Mansour is taking a financial risk in wiring the money to Lloyds when it is unclear whether he will ever get to take control of the assets he is paying for, but as someone close to the deal said, that seems to be "a risk he's willing to take".

Government intervenes in Abu Dhabi's bid to buy Telegraph

The sale of the newspaper to Gulf investors has been referred to the competition and media regulators.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[argyle]

The culture and media secretary has intervened to scrutinise a sale of the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator magazine to a company backed by the Abu Dhabi ruling family.

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, best known in the UK for his ownership of Manchester City football club, has thrown his considerable financial heft behind RedBird IMI, the investment consortium looking to take control of the Telegraph and the Spectator.

As the BBC reported on Wednesday, the Secretary of State, Lucy Frazer, did not feel it appropriate to intervene in a debt repayment transaction.

However, as she has previously indicated and now confirmed, the transfer of the politically important titles to what is essentially a foreign power is a matter the UK government and other regulators need to scrutinise.

But former editors, senior politicians and grassroots Conservatives have voiced grave concerns about the deal.

Simply put, the Barclay family, who have twisted and turned for many years from Lloyds to preserve their ownership of the Telegraph, have now replaced their Lloyds debt with a debt to the Abu Dhabi royal family.

Sheikh Mansour is taking a financial risk in wiring the money to Lloyds when it is unclear whether he will ever get to take control of the assets he is paying for, but as someone close to the deal said, that seems to be "a risk he's willing to take".

Government intervenes in Abu Dhabi's bid to buy Telegraph

The sale of the newspaper to Gulf investors has been referred to the competition and media regulators.

www.bbc.co.uk

Rupert Murdoch and Lord Rothermere (owner of the daily mail) want to buy the Telegraph and so are putting pressure on the Government to intervene.

It's fine for a son of a former KGB agent to own the Independent, for a far right Australian to own multiple tabloids like the Sun and a non-dom, immigrant hater like Rothermere to own papers - but a Middle Eastern owner is bad.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

The culture and media secretary has intervened to scrutinise a sale of the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator magazine to a company backed by the Abu Dhabi ruling family.

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, best known in the UK for his ownership of Manchester City football club, has thrown his considerable financial heft behind RedBird IMI, the investment consortium looking to take control of the Telegraph and the Spectator.

As the BBC reported on Wednesday, the Secretary of State, Lucy Frazer, did not feel it appropriate to intervene in a debt repayment transaction.

However, as she has previously indicated and now confirmed, the transfer of the politically important titles to what is essentially a foreign power is a matter the UK government and other regulators need to scrutinise.

But former editors, senior politicians and grassroots Conservatives have voiced grave concerns about the deal.

Simply put, the Barclay family, who have twisted and turned for many years from Lloyds to preserve their ownership of the Telegraph, have now replaced their Lloyds debt with a debt to the Abu Dhabi royal family.

Sheikh Mansour is taking a financial risk in wiring the money to Lloyds when it is unclear whether he will ever get to take control of the assets he is paying for, but as someone close to the deal said, that seems to be "a risk he's willing to take".

Government intervenes in Abu Dhabi's bid to buy Telegraph

The sale of the newspaper to Gulf investors has been referred to the competition and media regulators.

www.bbc.co.uk

Strange, they don’t usually bother when wealthy foreign powers gain shares within our national media. I wonder if somebody has been lobbying the government for their own interests?

 

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

11 if you count the missed drugs test.

She’s a looker though

 

[Stoned Rose]

Whenever I ask this question someone posts a link to an article supporting the allegation that he cheated on his wife.

I actually know this to be true because a girl I was seeing about twenty years ago, a former Virgin air stewardess, had a mate, a former colleague, who had been shagging Ferdinand behind his then girlfriend’s (subsequently wife) back for years, so I know what he was/is like. But there is an overwhelming difference between that and doing so when his wife was dying of cancer, which I am yet to see a substantive proof of, despite it being repeatedly presented as fact on here.

Man like G should know the rules by now…..