Media Thread 2017/18

[bavarian blue]

How on earth is this legal? What a loathsome slug Gideon is...

It's legal because the fat cats have decided, backed by a right wing Tory government.

 

[Groke]

United and their PR Machine, sorry PR Department, via the Newspapers, have been doing this for decades.

London’s Evening Standard newspaper, edited by the former chancellor George Osborne, has agreed a £3 million deal with six leading commercial companies, including Google and Uber, promising them “money-can’t-buy” positive news and “favourable” comment coverage, openDemocracy can reveal.

The project, called London 2020, is being directed by Osborne. It effectively sweeps away the conventional ethical divide between news and advertising inside the Standard – and is set to include “favourable” news coverage of the firms involved, with readers unable to differentiate between "news" that is paid-for and other commercially-branded content.

United and Liverpool I reckon. Not too far of a stretch of the imagination to think that these deals could also include negative stories about competitors.

 

[Andy Conway]

United and their PR Machine, sorry PR Department, via the Newspapers, have been doing this for decades.

London’s Evening Standard newspaper, edited by the former chancellor George Osborne, has agreed a £3 million deal with six leading commercial companies, including Google and Uber, promising them “money-can’t-buy” positive news and “favourable” comment coverage, openDemocracy can reveal.

The project, called London 2020, is being directed by Osborne. It effectively sweeps away the conventional ethical divide between news and advertising inside the Standard – and is set to include “favourable” news coverage of the firms involved, with readers unable to differentiate between "news" that is paid-for and other commercially-branded content.

Isn't this the deal MUplc did with the BBC a couple of years ago? Someone on here reported as much.

 

[Cellarite]

What the fuck is this on my BBC app? Three stories on the main page.

1. Villa scores winner against us in 81 cup final.

2. Boro beat us 2-0 in the cup.

3. Cazorla puts Arsenal 1-0 up against us in the Charity Shield.

Are they having a fucking laugh?

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Isn't this the deal MUplc did with the BBC a couple of years ago? Someone on here reported as much.

The BBC just employed Manure's head of sport media.

 

[Chris in London]

What the fuck is this on my BBC app? Three stories on the main page.

1. Villa scores winner against us in 81 cup final.

2. Boro beat us 2-0 in the cup.

3. Cazorla puts Arsenal 1-0 up against us in the Charity Shield.

Are they having a fucking laugh?

Yep, on the BBC mobile app it’s the same. Hollow the Manchester City link and these are the top 4 items.

Someone is taking the piss.

 

[BackofJeanette]

Yep, on the BBC mobile app it’s the same. Hollow the Manchester City link and these are the top 4 items.

Someone is taking the piss.

It just goes to show how much they are hurting!

It fills me with a warm glow...


Or I've pissed my pants!!!

 

[Fred_Quimby]

When I was in the Army we had this quote on our wall and then I see Yes! Minister stole it. But still true today.

“Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardianis read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.”

 

[asahartford1]

When I was in the Army we had this quote on our wall and then I see Yes! Minister stole it. But still true today.

“Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardianis read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.”

I can understand the relevance, but, do you think they stole it directly from your toilet. ?

 

[hutton who blue]

Yep, on the BBC mobile app it’s the same. Hollow the Manchester City link and these are the top 4 items.

Someone is taking the piss.

No, no, no agenda whatsoever according to some, fair and balanced reporting as ever, Man City's record breaking feats this season should be disregarded, hence ignored entirely, smoke screened and become obsolete.