MUEN again and again

[aguero93:20]

Anyway stuart, how about an article on how bolton could have ran themselves into that 150+ million hole without breaching ffp regulations?

 

[oakiecokie]

Sooo Stuart... WHO was the MEN staff member on here on the wind up?

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You have to ask that question ? I think we know the answer to that.

 

[Blue Punter]

I remember an inappropriate, derogatory article on City a few years ago and it was blamed on some work experience lad who was holding the fort over Easter.

Care to elaborate? I have been at the MEN for 16 years and we have never had a "work experience lad holding the fort at Easter". The whole sports desk is used to having to work at Easter, as it is a very busy time for sport.
This kind of drivel is what I meant when I talked about challenging "lies and inaccuracies".

Without being 100% sure, I think the article related to the anniversary party (City's lack of trophies) that was due to be held at Walkabout, with David May.

When someone on here flagged it up, the response was that there was a junior member of staff who put the article online unsupervised. He was unsupervised as it was a bank holiday and there was a shortage of staff.

As was highlighted later in the thread the article didn't relate to David May over a bank holiday. I did say at the time I wasn't 100% sure of the article. However I did state that there was an article that was put up, then taken down on the premise that it was inappropriate and the excuse used was that there was a shortage of regular staff.

These were your own words on the subject Stuart.

For a start, this didn't go in the newspaper at all - it was up on the website overnight, piut there by someone temporarily standing in for the sports website fella (we have a skeleton staff on a Sunday), and was taken down as soon as I and the regular sports website lad became fully aware of it.

Other posters said it rang a bell with them, yet you seemed more intent on discrediting that idea, banging on about Bank Holidays in February.

I notice that you wasn't so quick to reply to my question:

As a general question for SB, would it be possible that a junior member of staff would have posted a piece deemed inappropriate, due to there being a staff shortage at weekend?

As I said earlier, I said I'd retract anything that I couldn't back up. So once again, it didn't relate to David May on a bank holiday weekend.

The rest of it is pretty accurate. Derogatory piece about City, taken down as inappropriate and the excuse used being the author was not a regular member of staff.

Bottom line is that it was an example of YET ANOTHER editorial misjudgement from the MEN. Well done to "The Flash" for digging the original thread out. I now realise typing "Another Disgraceful article from the MUEN" into a search engine would have done the trick.

 

[barryo]

Care to elaborate? I have been at the MEN for 16 years and we have never had a "work experience lad holding the fort at Easter". The whole sports desk is used to having to work at Easter, as it is a very busy time for sport.
This kind of drivel is what I meant when I talked about challenging "lies and inaccuracies".

Without being 100% sure, I think the article related to the anniversary party (City's lack of trophies) that was due to be held at Walkabout, with David May.

When someone on here flagged it up, the response was that there was a junior member of staff who put the article online unsupervised. He was unsupervised as it was a bank holiday and there was a shortage of staff.

As was highlighted later in the thread the article didn't relate to David May over a bank holiday. I did say at the time I wasn't 100% sure of the article. However I did state that there was an article that was put up, then taken down on the premise that it was inappropriate and the excuse used was that there was a shortage of regular staff.

These were your own words on the subject Stuart.

For a start, this didn't go in the newspaper at all - it was up on the website overnight, piut there by someone temporarily standing in for the sports website fella (we have a skeleton staff on a Sunday), and was taken down as soon as I and the regular sports website lad became fully aware of it.

Other posters said it rang a bell with them, yet you seemed more intent on discrediting that idea, banging on about Bank Holidays in February.

I notice that you wasn't so quick to reply to my question:

As a general question for SB, would it be possible that a junior member of staff would have posted a piece deemed inappropriate, due to there being a staff shortage at weekend?

As I said earlier, I said I'd retract anything that I couldn't back up. So once again, it didn't relate to David May on a bank holiday weekend.

The rest of it is pretty accurate. Derogatory piece about City, taken down as inappropriate and the excuse used being the author was not a regular member of staff.

Bottom line is that it was an example of YET ANOTHER editorial misjudgement from the MEN. Well done to "The Flash" for digging the original thread out. I now realise typing "Another Disgraceful article from the MUEN" into a search engine would have done the trick.

I'll put my tin hat on before typing this......

I WISH THERE WAS A LiKE BUTTON ON HERE ....!!!!

 

[Bobbins]

If someone puts out a picture of Aguero with his wages attached however, for seemingly no reason, it's not for us to know that it was down to incompetence rather than deliberate.

Someone decided the piece about empty seats was acceptable, so how are we supposed to know the Aguero picture wasn't intentional ?

It's the fact that even when there is an innocent error, it is used as "proof" of an anti-City agenda, with no thought that the explanation could be far simpler.
I'm not going back over the empty seats stuff, as I made my position clear, and it has been dealt with internally.
There will always be mistakes, as in any media organisation - indeed any company, anywhere in the world - but to interpret them all as some attempt to undermine City is just ridiculous - at times it makes this forum look like an insane asylum!

-- Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:25 pm --

If an article is just repeating the same stuff we've all read from other sources, which many are, it's unlikely anyone will mention it.

Just for the record, it is far more likely that the other sources got the stuff from the MEN, than vice versa! Because you read it elsewhere first doesn't mean they had it first.

The problem is you never publicly apologise for your errors in the paper or on the website you just come on here trying to defend your inept staff !!

 

[Ding Dong]

Come on Stuart...........Man the berracades........... The peasents are revolting.

 

[aguero93:20]

Come on Stuart...........Man the berracades........... The peasents are revolting.

He's not online apparently. Pity, I meant what I said about the bolton thing.

 

[Blue Shield]

Quite pro city today actually I thought. Took the piss out of united saying only 3 of their first team was good enough for next season and they needed to buy everyone else (the usually suspects Gundagan, Reus etc) and there was a double spread on our youth teams dominating at every level.

 

[BringBackSwales]

When brennan says the matter of the circled seats has been "dealt with internally" does he seriously think that washes? "Dealt with internally" is not an apology, it is not a response as to why the hell something so snide got past the sports editor and overall editor, and it probably means that they all had a fucking good snigger about it, internally of course. Utterly disgraceful, but completely par for the course

 

[TCIB]

Just read the City gossip (messi talk) and was pleasantly met by a pro City view or at least pro Manchester.
Fella by the name of David Lynch, now i am sure i will be educated as to why he is a despicable rag bastard with only a questionable right to live however...

The snide digs that come with many reports on us in the written media were not there, indeed it was in our favour.
Not some big "City are great" type post just stuff like this...

"But that might come at a cost, with the Catalans believed to be readying a big-money move for Sergio Aguero. No thank you!"

I bolded the part i liked, so more of this please, don't lick our arse and give us both barrels when we deserve it.
Beyond that i expect to see such articles punctured with nods to their Mancunian allegiance all the time, red or blue.

More of that and the M.E.N website will go back on my permalinks next to "the times" "telegraph" and "The Observer"
That and streamline the editorial process and make it more robust.
You will have no blues moan...ok well a few will but you get my point.