Media Thread 2020/21

[EricBrooksGhost]

The issue isn't Rashford but the rinse repeat approach of the BBC who have gone no further in investigating the wider related issues.
That's where my disdain lies.

 

[Ric]

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.

The reactions are predictably, but depressingly, partisan. Some things really should transcend football rivalries.

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

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.

I agree but only to a point. Positive articles on Sterling only came about as a result of him calling the media out on their differing reporting positions for Foden & Adarabioyo. Before this the lad couldn't walk into a Greggs or Poundland without being papped.

 

[Centurions]

The reactions are predictably, but depressingly, partisan. Some things really should transcend football rivalries.

Sadly, people will be people.

 

[Blueboy73]

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.

With respect I have already said I didn't doubt his motivation initially and I kept quiet on this during the debate during the first lockdown for that very reason.

Yourself and some others may think that
keeping this in the news will help enact change at government level however there are also many including myself and many of my colleagues that actually work in this environment that don't.

In my opinion the government can throw as much money at meal vouchers, food parcels etc. as they like and the BBC can trumpet this as much as they like however this won't tackle the route cause of this situation.

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you've fed him for a lifetime.

 

[Blueboy73]

The issue isn't Rashford but the rinse repeat approach of the BBC who have gone no further in investigating the wider related issues.
That's where my disdain lies.

This 100%

 

[Blueboy73]

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.

Didn't Alan Ball try to blame Paul Hince and his articles in the MUEN for getting him the sack back in 96?

 

[manimanc]

Sadly, people will be people.

Depeche Mode like this post.

 

[BillyShears]

With respect I have already said I didn't doubt his motivation initially and I kept quiet on this during the debate during the first lockdown for that very reason.

It's a shame your empathy has run out then. Personally I think the economic situation of poor families in the last 12 months will more than likely have gotten worse not better, so continuing to be empathetic and to support anyone who is trying to help, would be the best course of action.

If you don't want to do that, if you feel that the kids need to learn how to catch their own food, then you're entitled to that opinion too. But none of that changes the fact that this is a thread about media bias and here we are discussing a young black footballer doing charity work, simply because he plays for United.

So who's actually biased ?

 

[BillyShears]

The reactions are predictably, but depressingly, partisan. Some things really should transcend football rivalries.

There's serious irony in this conversation taking place in a thread about media 'bias'.