Media Thread - 2021/22

[The perfect fumble]

the way he phrased his orginal tweet was obviously an exaggeration of both ends of the spectrum to illustrate a point.

No.

It was a loaded question.

A loaded question is a trick question, which presupposes at least one unverified assumption that the person/persons being questioned is likely to disagree with......




"A common view of City fans online is that they’re militant and abusive. I’ve found a lot who aren’t and may do an article on what they have to say. That would probably paint City fans in a good light. That's a bad thing now is it?"

This is so obvious it's puerile.

Where do you even begin? The answer is you don't.

Lee is just a bad faith actor and he's not alone in his debased profession. I don't know whether he's as stupid as he appears, he may be faking it on the assumption that City fans are as dumb as dog biscuits.

Either way he can f**k off.

 

[Blue Mist]

Can Sam Lee enlighten us as to which clubs have fans online who are not militant and abusive? City seem to be singled out for behaviour which, from what I read, is pretty much universal.

Perhaps he could tell us when our militant fans got a long established journalist fired for writing an honest story about a disaster that left 97 dead.
There is defending the club you love militant and obsessive, paranoid delusional, dangerous militant.
I know which one I am.

 

[Danny Hoekman]

No.

It was a loaded question.

A loaded question is a trick question, which presupposes at least one unverified assumption that the person/persons being questioned is likely to disagree with......




"A common view of City fans online is that they’re militant and abusive. I’ve found a lot who aren’t and may do an article on what they have to say. That would probably paint City fans in a good light. That's a bad thing now is it?"

This is so obvious as to be puerile.

Where do you even begin? The answer is you don't.

Lee is just a bad faith actor and he's not alone in his debased profession. I don't know whether he's as stupid as he appears, he may be faking it on the assumption that City fans are as dumb as dog biscuits.

Either way he can f**k off.

He has small band of City mates who he meets up with whenever he goes away. He will know their take on anything City related. Why the need to take this inane line of questioning to Twitter? I think we all know the answer to that.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

I saw his original tweet, and genuinely I think people are going way overboard.

I have huge issues with the “media” treatment of City, but come on, the way he phrased his orginal tweet was obviously an exaggeration of both ends of the spectrum to illustrate a point.

I don’t think it does our fan base any favours to react in this way, especially when Sam Lee doesn’t even make the top 10 in terms of journalists with a vendetta against City

I read the tweet by this 'wordsmith' on here.Then
coming from him I re-read it several more times without really allunderstanding what he was trying to say.
So that's just you and he who understand with everybody else getting it wrong?
He stated he has about a hundred 'genuine' reies from genuine City fans (were you one?) In about 9 hours. I do not believe that for one minute. 100 fans hanging on his every post to send him their non militant replies and he reads not only these but all the other dissenting replies. Does he not have a proper job? Or a life?
It's all just agitation and exaggeration and it's worse coming from the guy who is supposed to 'represent' City.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Did Liverpool win the title last night?

You might think so from the Mancunian presenter on BBC's local news who gleefully mentioned they had closed the gap by 'hammering' (stressing the word) Leeds.

 

[The perfect fumble]

He has small band of City mates who he meets up with whenever he goes away. He will know their take on anything City related. Why the need to take this inane line of questioning to Twitter? I think we all know the answer to that.

Yes we do.

It's shock jock, designed not to illuminate but to inflame. It's just click bait gutter journalism.

So what do we do? Assuming there is a we.

Lee was right for the wrong reasons, City fans are not homogeneous, on a side note, Liverpool fans are not homogeneous either, but on occasion they're capable of acting as if they are, cults do have their upsides! And Lee has something we don't, he has a bully pulpit, a tiny one in a crowded market, but it comes with a faded stamp of authenticity as City correspondent for The Athletic.

What do we have?.......Nothing.

Hence all the posts bemoaning the lack of aggressive rebuttal by the club in the face of all this bullshit.

 

[David Silva]

Might be wrong but it doesn't feel like the club are even briefing Lee anymore.

The minute he joined the athletic it seemed city pulled the shutters down on him.

Makes sense anyway. If city wanted to brief the media & public, why would we brief an organisation who are strictly paywalled?

 

[cheekybids]

No.

It was a loaded question.

A loaded question is a trick question, which presupposes at least one unverified assumption that the person/persons being questioned is likely to disagree with......




"A common view of City fans online is that they’re militant and abusive. I’ve found a lot who aren’t and may do an article on what they have to say. That would probably paint City fans in a good light. That's a bad thing now is it?"

This is so obvious as to be puerile.

Where do you even begin? The answer is you don't.

Lee is just a bad faith actor and he's not alone in his debased profession. I don't know whether he's as stupid as he appears, he may be faking it on the assumption that City fans are as dumb as dog biscuits.

Either way he can f**k off.

He’s a twat!

 

[Asa's left peg]

It's an attempt to silence or brand those prominent fans who pushback on their flawed theories and agenda (like PB) as lunatic fringe and therefore their ridiculous assumptions have credibility.

"A common view of City fans online is that they’re militant and abusive." We all know 'who's' view he is talking about. He had a meeting with them to discuss us anyway

 

[David Kloppesh]

A common view of Sam Lee, online and offline, is that He's debilitant and delusive.