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Media Thread - 2021/22
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halfcenturyup
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Journalist’s consider themselves to be more intelligent than the typical tribal football fan.
so they can cope with bricks and bottles being thrown(as long as it’s not at them) but resorting to stone cold facts to discredit them as simplistic lazy arsed moronic fucktards that failed to research prior to publishing stories made up on foundations of bullshit really hurts their egos.
Reminds me of something one of my mentors told me when I started working in Geneva. People will forgive you for making a mistake, but they will never forgive you for being right.
Centurions
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I'll take a wild guess and say 'No'.Schalke have removed Gazprom's logo from their shirts acording to the Metro, The Indy and The Daily Mein Kampf (Mail). Will UEFA follow suit and indeed go one better and cancel the sponsorhsip ?
stan bowles
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"...there is no journalist brave enough to do that..."If he pointed his barrel down the East Lancs Road we all know what would happen, there is no journalist brave enough to do that not even Sam Lee. Our fan base as opposed to the cult is comfortable with our club our owners and our future and that is the chemical mix that these journalists are unable to cope with. Instead he tags one of our prominent posters to try to attach him to an alleged abusive fan base when all that poster does is let us know the truth either about our club or the clubs finances and is a well respected poster on Bluemoon along with others. The one thing that does concern me with the ever grasping journalists is why have fans suddenly become the enemy on the front line because since watching City from the 50's I never recall seeing in print, attacks on a clubs fans, this is a recent phenomenon.
Nail hit firmly on the head. They're not stupid enough to inflame The Cult and risk recrimination.
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I doubt they'll cancel it as they'll want to normalise relations asap after the war has ended. However they might well play down the connection by removing their logo from all UEFA material in the hope Gazprom piss off of their own accord.Schalke have removed Gazprom's logo from their shirts acording to the Metro, The Indy and The Daily Mein Kampf (Mail). Will UEFA follow suit and indeed go one better and cancel the sponsorhsip ?
bobbyowenquiff
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The Athletic made operational losses of £41m in its last set of figures and that was even after shedding 8 per cent of its workforce. Whatever they are doing they are not keeping enough of their customers happy and Sam Lee is on a very dodgy wicket. Let's wait and see what happens with their new bosses at the New York Times.I agree with almost all of this, but when you say....
"This never ends well."
I disagree, Lee and the Athletic will be perfectly fine. What possible blowback will there be? As City fans, assuming we're all aware that Lee is being deliberately disingenuous, which clearly we're not, and assuming we all disagree with whatever he's on about, and we don't, and assuming we give a shit either way, we're insignificant in the scheme of things.
We don't have the numbers, we don't have unanimity, we don't have the organisation or the motivation and we don't have a voice.
Lee knows that, he can f**k around with us all he likes, what are we going to do beyond post in here? Pull our subscriptions from the Athletic? You're having a laugh! Giving us a good kicking is good for clicks from rival fans, we all know this. In fact giving the club and the fans a fair crack of the whip would undoubtedly do more damage to subscriptions than peddling his puerile bullshit.
No, he's alright and he knows it, the spineless scribbler might know sweet Fanny Adams about f**k all, but he knows where his bread is buttered.
Just seen this. For me, the thing about allegations of 'whataboutery' is that they're a go-to resource for obnoxious hypocrites, who sling them around when seeking to shut down the exposure of their venal double standards.
Absolutely.
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Not seen who said this... Was it Nick by any chance? He seems one of the most copout prone of the whatsapp group.Excellent post and in one way or another these hyprocrisies have been put to the WhatsApp group.
Their response "Whataboutery".
The go to phrase when you're losing a debate.
Whataboutery, is a term people use, when they can't argue that they haven't been caught out with blatant double standards. I suppose in their profession, admitting you have double standards or agendas is not done, because integrity(or the illusion of it) is supposed to be paramount.
Pigeons and chessboards spring to mind though, when I see that buzzword used.
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The one thing that does concern me with the ever grasping journalists is why have fans suddenly become the enemy on the front line because since watching City from the 50's I never recall seeing in print, attacks on a clubs fans, this is a recent phenomenon.
Absolutely a recent phenomenon, and it isn't on. Quite a few (we all know who they are) go out of their way to antagonise our supporters, and then act all surprised when they don't get thanked for doing so.
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