Media Discussion - 2023/24

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Blue Mist said:
The laugh of this is the son of a former member of the KGB has previously owned the Telegraph but, if that's not bad enough, a man convicted of fraud has.
The difference appears to be skin tone (and religion ?) rather than anything else.
Further, Lloyd's bank currently stand to lose 1 billion pounds in unpaid loans. No other potential (white skinned) buyer has offered to repay that. Our (light brown - muslim) owner has.
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The Ledbedev's, father and son, own the Evening Standard and the Independent. Ledbedev senior was a former (do you ever really leave) KGB officer who was sent to work out of the Russian embassy in London. Subsequently he became one of a number of Russian oligarch's in London. Post Ukraine it turns out that some oligarch's are better than other's and whilst Abramovich and others were sent packing Ledbedev senior was allowed to stay and BoJo handed junior a seat in the House of Lords. In 2019 junior sold a 30% stake in the independent to a private Saudi investor. It was called in and investigated under a public interest intervention notice and subsequently deemed to be ok.

As to the Lloyd's loan. If the Telegraph goes to auction it is expected to fetch £600 million so Lloyd's take a £500 million haircut. If the Sheikh Mansour backed RedBird deal goes ahead they repay the loan in full. £600 million is used to take control of the Telegraph from the Barclay's. The remainder swapped into a loan to the Very Group which is owned by the Barclays. They thereby short circuit any auction process effectively putting two fingers up to Murdoch, Lord Rothermere and Paul Wallace.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
The difference is significant and very simple. People routinely assert it on here as accepted fact when there is absolutely nothing to support it. Don’t you think there’s something a bit weird about that?

Not defending his character at all, and as I’ve said it wouldn’t shock me as being true, it’s simply curious to me that something that appears to be completely untrue is so widely accepted as fact, seemingly because people want it to be.

Probably the right thread for it tbf!
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People asserting something as fact when there is nothing to support it?

Quick, to the media discussion thread!! ;)
 
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jimmygrimblesboots said:
We have had more negativity aimed at our club in the media over the last decade than the Dippers did in 1985 when they murdered 39 innocent football fans and got all UK football clubs banned from europe for five years , even if we have bent the rules and concealed a few quid , we havent killed people.
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This is an absolutely brilliant point
 
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