Media Thread 2020/21

[LongsightM13]

Think the Mirror or the Echo published a story with the headline ‘Why are City fans booing Milner?’ when as you said he wasnt even playing

It was The Express. Correction but no apology

Correction - Man City fans boo James Milner - 19.09.19.

In an article headlined 'Why are Man City fans booing Liverpool star James Milner in Vincent Kompany testimonial", published on September 11 2019, we reported that James Milner was booed by Manchester City supporters when he "'touched the ball during the Vincent Kompany's testimonial".

www.express.co.uk

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

John Cross not happy

The NFL have managed to keep the league running by chopping and changing matches in response to outbreaks

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Surely the point here is that Karney lied about Leeds on national TV. They didn't get promoted because of Covid. She should apologise for saying it. We all know she wouldn't have said the same thing about Liverpool. Nothing wrong with criticism and robust opinion but it's not valid unless it is based on fact.

The problem with pundits is they rarely back up opinions with actual facts. Probably because they are no nowts on the whole

 

[Spanishbob]

The problem with pundits is they rarely back up opinions with actual facts. Probably because they are no nowts on the whole

Good to see no city fans are posting on the the daily we are only about the massive reds mirror mail interweb sites. Fuckers

 

[Spanishbob]

Good to see no city fans are posting on the the daily we are only about the massive reds mirror mail interweb sites. Fuckers

Pardon my French

 

[colinthewindowcleaner]

It’s like asking who you prefer to have as a birthday guest, Jimmy Saville or Gary Glitter.

Be spooky if Jimmy Saville turned up

 

[bakerdave76]

City’s response when the arsenal game was cancelled in March.
The decision to postpone tonight's game has been taken as a precautionary measure on medical advice, after it emerged that personnel from Arsenal FC have come into contact with the Olympiacos owner, Evangelos Marinakis, who has been named as a positive case of COVID-19.

Manchester City FC wishes Mr Marinakis a speedy recovery, and further information will follow in the coming days about rescheduled

 

[Eds]

I await the outrage from knob Harris et al at the late postponement of the Spurs game. Where are all our resident Neverton fans apologising for their classless club.

 

[Chris in London]

I await the outrage from knob Harris et al at the late postponement of the Spurs game. Where are all our resident Neverton fans apologising for their classless club.

Most of the Everton fans on here seem alright to me. Their club however has received a lesson in behaving with class and grace.

From the Portuguese eye gouger.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Delaney... hell, 99% of sports journalists on social media actively poke those 'tribal' fans to purposely get a reaction... sadly with social media, the more clicks they get the better... when it comes to Liverpool or United - they have been thrust in the media spotlight for decades now so they have a massive plastic following around the world, whereas we still have a fairly local core fanbase... we have a global reach but it pales into insignificance compared to the vermin... so for that lot, positive stories about Liverpool and United gets them lots of lovely followers and clicks and likes, whereas with us, negative articles work the same way... that's all it is – impartial, honest journalism is pretty much dead, with only a handful of journals that actually report the truth over clickbait.

The problem isn't that they proffer opinion to get a reaction; I would be okay with that. It's that they spout downright lies and distortions of the truth to get a reaction. They pretty much say what they want, and when they get called out they feign shock and disgust. The sheer hypocrisy is astounding.

It's often blatantly coordinated, which is another claim they vociferously deny even though there has been so much content on social media which can't be anything other than coordinated (similar/same language, posted pretty much at the same time from numerous accounts). Talk of a WhatsApp group containing the usual suspects must have been close to the mark given the forcefulness of their denial.

There is no real mechanism to regulate them. IPSO are pretty toothless when it comes to the printed media, and far from independent given that they are largely funded by their member organisations. The only real option we have is to not to engage with them, which I know is extremely difficult.