Media Thread 2020/21

[BeerIsTheBest]

Unfortunately clicks and ratings rule everything. I took the dog for her belated jabs yesterday and this morning got an e mail asking me to rate them even though l just handed her to a lovely SE Asian lady who brought her back when she was done. From what l could see of the vet under her mask l would give her 10 out ot 10 but that wasn't in the questionnaire.
I digress. It seems that it is more the media companies who dictate opinion and one way they do it is by directing the pundits. The same old names appear on more than one satellite company and the BBC. Lightweight Linekar is said to be the BBC's highest paid presenter. On £1.3m per year the BBC should have some sort of exclusivity clause. Instead he like the others pimps himself round other broadcasters often having different opinions on them than on the BBC. They all do as free agents. And so you never get a clear view of what these so called experts really think.
Just after we won the title Ferdinands ugly face showed how unhappy he was that City had won the title again. The looked even more upset when Savage sand the praises of City. My own naive first impression was that Sky would not want one of their pundits to be seen being so openly biased against the best team for decades.
Mais au contraire mes amis.Sky and the others love it. They want pundits acting like fans. They love Trevor Sinclair and TO Jackie batting for rrCity so they can try and rubbish them and even cut them off.
It appears that this morning Ratboy was shown mocking Liverpool heading for the Europa Cup, just like any of those idiots on Sunday would. Sky love this and it will be played out on a screen near you soon. The media love conflict whether it's between footballer pundits or a couple of B&B landlady's calling each other's doss houses.
Even though broadcasters think this is 'good tv', it's of no interest to me just another move towards another form of ESL which they try again soon.

Mike. Totally agree with your points on fanning the flames of conflict for the entertainment of the masses who are increasing. unable or unwilling to form their own opinions. And the blurring of the lines between pundits and media types who now act as celebrities or influencers rather than simply reporters or commentators. It’s a terrible modern trend which is unlikely to go away.
Years ago telly chefs were just that, people who showed you how to cook. Now it’s soft lenses, lifestyle, corny anecdotes and bollocks. Footballs gone / going the same way.

Wouldn’t it be nice if just one broadcaster removed the expert ex-pro co-commentator so the viewer / listener could decide whether they were interested in learning about Danny Murphy’s scouse brother or whatever during the actual match Or were simply interested in a factual commentary.

Bring back doughnuts just like Fanny’s I say.

 

[aka blue jambo]

Well when Rooney moved to the Rags, scored and kissed the badge a daft Blue Scouse lobbed something at him. Understandable but throwing your mobile does enable the police there to make a rare arrest.

I know some trouble makers were taking old untraceable phones to games purely to throw at opposition fans etc

 

[JCB001]

Well when Rooney moved to the Rags, scored and kissed the badge a daft Blue Scouse lobbed something at him. Understandable but throwing your mobile does enable the police there to make a rare arrest.

I see that there is no "he should be at Utd " for him for his managerial skills

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Unfortunately clicks and ratings rule everything. I took the dog for her belated jabs yesterday and this morning got an e mail asking me to rate them even though l just handed her to a lovely SE Asian lady who brought her back when she was done. From what l could see of the vet under her mask l would give her 10 out ot 10 but that wasn't in the questionnaire.
I digress. It seems that it is more the media companies who dictate opinion and one way they do it is by directing the pundits. The same old names appear on more than one satellite company and the BBC. Lightweight Linekar is said to be the BBC's highest paid presenter. On £1.3m per year the BBC should have some sort of exclusivity clause. Instead he like the others pimps himself round other broadcasters often having different opinions on them than on the BBC. They all do as free agents. And so you never get a clear view of what these so called experts really think.
Just after we won the title Ferdinands ugly face showed how unhappy he was that City had won the title again. The looked even more upset when Savage sand the praises of City. My own naive first impression was that Sky would not want one of their pundits to be seen being so openly biased against the best team for decades.
Mais au contraire mes amis.Sky and the others love it. They want pundits acting like fans. They love Trevor Sinclair and TO Jackie batting for rrCity so they can try and rubbish them and even cut them off.
It appears that this morning Ratboy was shown mocking Liverpool heading for the Europa Cup, just like any of those idiots on Sunday would. Sky love this and it will be played out on a screen near you soon. The media love conflict whether it's between footballer pundits or a couple of B&B landlady's calling each other's doss houses.
Even though broadcasters think this is 'good tv', it's of no interest to me just another move towards another form of ESL which they try again soon.

You really need to calm down your obsession with the media and their treatment of Manchester City. Your Confirmation Bias is going to ruin what could be the best month in the club's history for you. There is always a clueless pundit, there's always a daft opposition fan, there's always jealousy. Seek and ye shall find. Stop letting it destroy your enjoyment of the wonderful things that are happening on and off the pitch.

 

[Blue Mist]

Stop subscribing & passing it on, I’ve no interest in posh public school boys opinions who pick & choose their principles depending on the narrative they want to create. We certainly know that one of their principles isn’t truthfulness.

So you don't want to hear what @gordondaviesmoustache has to say!
Thinking about it, you're right.

 

[kaz7]

From the Guardian. No it is not a logical position. Presumably the Guardian demands that Atletico Madrid be ostracised from football because an Iasraeli billionaire has a major stake? Where does this end?

Boycott this paper.

"And here again is the duality of City. The boundless resources, the basic weirdness of a nation state owning a football club for PR reasons: this all remains. There are those who will be unmoved by success on the pitch, and unable to look past this. It is a logical position. We are all, City fans included, being manipulated in our dear old home grounds by a state hungry for soft power. And yet because football is a spectacle that will not be degraded – not yet anyway – City have been able to do all this in a way that has been uplifting, and undeniably a work of skill and craft.
As a final thought, the current timeline has dished up the most miserable, digitised, alienating football season anyone will care to remember, or indeed see again. The world outside has been darker still. Watching the games has, for all football’s flaws, been an act of pure escapism, one that would have been hugely diminished without that cold, clear shaft of sky blue light."

You are still reading and spreading their stuff for then, cant you see how stupid that is

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

So you don't want to hear what @gordondaviesmoustache has to say!
Thinking about it, you're right.

The fact you think I'm posh merely serves to identify you as a savage.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Mike. Totally agree with your points on fanning the flames of conflict for the entertainment of the masses who are increasing. unable or unwilling to form their own opinions. And the blurring of the lines between pundits and media types who now act as celebrities or influencers rather than simply reporters or commentators. It’s a terrible modern trend which is unlikely to go away.
Years ago telly chefs were just that, people who showed you how to cook. Now it’s soft lenses, lifestyle, corny anecdotes and bollocks. Footballs gone / going the same way.

Wouldn’t it be nice if just one broadcaster removed the expert ex-pro co-commentator so the viewer / listener could decide whether they were interested in learning about Danny Murphy’s scouse brother or whatever during the actual match Or were simply interested in a factual commentary.

Bring back doughnuts just like Fanny’s I say.

Bollocks to the doughnuts, l would just like the fanny's back.
I turned on BBC for the 10 o clock news last night and just caught the end of a sewing competition programme. Earlier in the week it was cooking. A few weeks ago they had Gordon Fing Ramsey as a quizmaster several nights in a row. The 9 o clock prime tv slot used to be for serious drama or investigative documentaries. Now its just lightweight froth most of the time.

I get really pissed off when commentators and pundits adopt the same crap and sneering as fans do often in ignorance and then it becomes 'fact'.
There was a brief mention on Breakfast about United Women's manager resigning. It was yesterday but there has been little mention of it and no wonder. That young woman was highly pissed off with the lack of investment in trying and other facilities for the women and this of course goes back to the Glazers but it is played down. Quite different from all the hype when the women played on the swamp.
All shite and getting worse.

 

[Mike Cledford]

I know some trouble makers were taking old untraceable phones to games purely to throw at opposition fans etc

Sure they weren't throwing their phones away in frustration because of poor reception. its very tempting in EL3 but l wouldn't like to hit East Stand 2 who posts in here. ,)
Seriously there would not be many stewards who would worry about phones. That firm that do the Etihad, Events? wouldn't bother finding people with half a dozen old phones, more interested in disabled kids with opened coke bottles.
The lockdown has made.me forget the good old days with long threads on stewarding queues etc.

 

[blueju]

Unfortunately clicks and ratings rule everything. I took the dog for her belated jabs yesterday and this morning got an e mail asking me to rate them even though l just handed her to a lovely SE Asian lady who brought her back when she was done. From what l could see of the vet under her mask l would give her 10 out ot 10 but that wasn't in the questionnaire.
I digress. It seems that it is more the media companies who dictate opinion and one way they do it is by directing the pundits. The same old names appear on more than one satellite company and the BBC. Lightweight Linekar is said to be the BBC's highest paid presenter. On £1.3m per year the BBC should have some sort of exclusivity clause. Instead he like the others pimps himself round other broadcasters often having different opinions on them than on the BBC. They all do as free agents. And so you never get a clear view of what these so called experts really think.
Just after we won the title Ferdinands ugly face showed how unhappy he was that City had won the title again. The looked even more upset when Savage sand the praises of City. My own naive first impression was that Sky would not want one of their pundits to be seen being so openly biased against the best team for decades.
Mais au contraire mes amis.Sky and the others love it. They want pundits acting like fans. They love Trevor Sinclair and TO Jackie batting for rrCity so they can try and rubbish them and even cut them off.
It appears that this morning Ratboy was shown mocking Liverpool heading for the Europa Cup, just like any of those idiots on Sunday would. Sky love this and it will be played out on a screen near you soon. The media love conflict whether it's between footballer pundits or a couple of B&B landlady's calling each other's doss houses.
Even though broadcasters think this is 'good tv', it's of no interest to me just another move towards another form of ESL which they try again soon.

Just had a thought reading this that they probably push this shite as a way to give their armchair fans around the world the feeling they’re participating in Bantz between their chosen red sides and the humiliation they dish out to so called lesser clubs fans?