Media Thread 2017/18

[waspish]

Yes. With anything like this it's a trade off between stopping it and generating more coverage for it. It absolutely is potentiall libellous, but as such no newspaper is going to go near it. The moment City issue any kind of cease and desist/retraction order, that becomes reportable, thus highlighting the accusation to a far wider audience than a few Twitter users.

It's usually only when something really goes mainstream it's worth it, which doesn't alter the cretinous stupidity of the writer for not realising he can be sued for it.

That’s what I was getting at you put it far better than me.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

"Pep will find it difficult in the best league in the world" " His tactics wont work in the Prem" "Hes a chequebook manager thats only ever taken over ready made sides" "City can be got at" " Citys defence is their weakness especially without Kompany" "This year the premiership is the weakest its ever been" " mourino always wins the league in his 2nd season" "City are in danger of alienating every football fan of other clubs with their over celebrating" are some of my favourite quotes this year so far .........Oh and now all our players are doping....ffs they are desperate now

I've had the impression over recent months that there is a single central source which decides what the topic for insinuation will be, and then it spreads to all the pondlife. I can't think of any other reason why each week there is a new and widespread topic which then dies off.

 

[BigOscar]

Is he actually a journalist? Looks more like just some glory hunting fan who tweets a lot abut the various teams he glory hunts?

 

[aguero93:20]

It's misleading by playing on people's understanding, but isn't what he's put up there actually true?

Slander is judged to a standard of actual malice shown and disregard for the truth, so yes, deliberately misleading people and intentionally concealing facts with malicious intent would count, as far as I can make out. It's a pretty clear and deliberate attack on someone's professional reputation and the reputation of the business that employs them.
Happy to be corrected by someone with a better understanding if I'm wrong though.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Slander is judged to a standard of actual malice shown and disregard for the truth, so yes, deliberately misleading people and intentionally concealing facts with malicious intent would count, as far as I can make out. It's a pretty clear and deliberate attack on someone's professional reputation and the reputation of the business that employs them.
Happy to be corrected by someone with a better understanding if I'm wrong though.

Same with me, but I view it that he is letting readers mislead themselves, which is almost certainly fine. Otherwise the Mail/Sun wouldn't have any headlines!
I think the words are carefully selected - the club have broken regulations in his time here, he did test positive. If they weren't, this would be gone by now.

 

[chedinho]

"Pep will find it difficult in the best league in the world" " His tactics wont work in the Prem" "Hes a chequebook manager thats only ever taken over ready made sides" "City can be got at" " Citys defence is their weakness especially without Kompany" "This year the premiership is the weakest its ever been" " mourino always wins the league in his 2nd season" "City are in danger of alienating every football fan of other clubs with their over celebrating" are some of my favourite quotes this year so far .........Oh and now all our players are doping....ffs they are desperate now

If any team looks like a bunch of dopes, it's got to be them that lost to Bristol

 

[aguero93:20]

Same with me, but I view it that he is letting readers mislead themselves, which is almost certainly fine. Otherwise the Mail/Sun wouldn't have any headlines!
I think the words are carefully selected - the club have broken regulations in his time here, he did test positive. If they weren't, this would be gone by now.

Mate if that's what he's trying to do he's shot himself in the foot with the PED Guardiola comment. The most important proof is the one on malicious intent. Not only is that a deliberate attack, it's only conceivable purpose is to imply that his teams dope...

 

[FlemishDuck]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5167917/man-city-mock-manchester-united-marouane-fellaini/

Man City brutally mock Manchester United midfielder Marouane Fellaini on Twitter over his football ability

The Premier League leaders' official French twitter account posted an image of a footballer with a similar hairstyle training in the fog.

Alongside the silhouette, they wrote: "If you find out who is hidden by the fog, you are unplayable..."

One supporter was quick to joke that it was Man United's midfielder Fellaini, even though it was actually winger Leroy Sane.

But Manchester City were having none of it and couldn't resist a dig at the Belgian when they replied: "No he is a football player."

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next breaking news story: Never seen before, some dude on reddit mocks players of rival team trough banter ...

 

[TFC]

If its good enough for Leicester....

;)

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Mate if that's what he's trying to do he's shot himself in the foot with the PED Guardiola comment. The most important proof is the one on malicious intent. Not only is that a deliberate attack, it's only conceivable purpose is to imply that his teams dope...

Of course it's meant to imply that! That's my point - it's slimeball behaviour, but not something that can't be batted away by re-stating facts as the basis.