Media Thread 2020/21

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

There is a debate about the content of the food content of the meal pack for kids not in school

BBC Breakfast of course have to feature St. Marcus shown in the old footage of the food bank warehouse bearing the family name plus a copy of a tweet on his account.

Why not the views of nutritionalists and child development experts plus something about the logistic difficulties of getting appropriate food to kids in a lockdown.

As usual l am none the wiser except a rag player is stuffed onto our screens again.

Bit of respect please.............

 

[cheekybids]

Think Sterling has had as much positive press as Rashford has tbf. If anything Rashford probably took inspiration from the way Raz decided to use the media to talk about things that mattered to him.

really, do you?

& Kompany also...

 

[BillyShears]

That isn't the point though, the message is well and truly out there and schools are working hard to make provision using very vague government guidelines which basically say do whatever you deem to be fit.
Schools are fully aware of what needs to be done and safeguarding staff are also providing extra support for those who need it wherever this is possible.
The message was relevant during the last lockdown and I don't doubt the lads motivation initially but the longer that the publically funded BBC continues to bang this drum then the more it is starting to look like a publicity stunt.
As a license fee payer and someone who works in a school who is directly involved in this process I don't find the continuing publicity particularly helpful or relevant.

With respect just because you personally don't think the publicity is important, that doesn't change the wider view of many, that keeping issues like this in the news will help enact serious and meaningful change at government level. Rashford should be applauded for that and to my mind it's pretty churlish to find people having a go at him in a thread about media bias.

As I said, it undermines real issues that City have in the media and it makes it easy for those outside the City bubble to dismiss us as partisan dickheads.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Rashford (as sickly as the coverage is) doesn't deserve the hate in this thread. He got his PA to write a letter and he's doing it for an MBE. I quite like that it took a lad from Wythenshawe to highlight the issues.

;-)

 

[oakiecokie]

The drama teachers could get involved in a video of how to fake a scream of agony as part of the diving and rolling lesson.

Our eldest daughter is a Drama Tutor and one of her ex schoolkids plays Michael in Peaky Blinders. I could ask ...

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Think Sterling has had as much positive press as Rashford has tbf. If anything Rashford probably took inspiration from the way Raz decided to use the media to talk about things that mattered to him.

In my humble opinion, he hasn't..........

 

[BillyShears]

In my humble opinion, he hasn't..........

Well what he has had for sure is a similar level of sneering hate on opposition message boards for trying to bring serious issues into the media.

Personally I think if you remove Rashford's name, and swap it for Sterling, you'll find identical posts on Rag Cafe or RAWK moaning about everything being a PR stunt and him trying to raise his personal profile.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Bit of respect please.............

Sorry.l got him confused with Princess Diana for some reason.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

I've supported City for nearly 30 years now and I don't recall too many if ANY actual City supporters from Manchester covering the club. What we've had are proper rags like Ogden, Jackson, Custis, who are basically cheerleaders for United writing about City in the most negative ways possible.

I'm not privy to the Athletic's policy on writers per club, but I know that they have been interviewing for another City reporter to join their team. It won't be a City supporter because sadly, there are very few of us in the mainstream media.

EDIT:

Also, for the record. The Blues who have been given a platform by the mainstream media, are in the main, horrible twats. Conn and his ilk are as bad as Delaney.

 

[cheekybids]

Going back even further, Peter Gardner was from Blackpool iirc.

Paul Hince was a blue, not always positive & in those days none of us were, we were a mess.

Id think if they want someone to cover City but there isn’t many blues about in that work then maybe it just reduces the odds for those blues that want the job.