Sterling - The Sun

[MillionMilesAway]

Can it get any worse.

Banning them will at least send the message to them and others that if they want any access to the club, stadium, training ground, players etc they have to show some balance.

It will also show our players and supporters that the club is willing to fight for them.

I'm sure it can get a whole lot worse.
Banning them can't really be justified really until they print lies - they may spin things like crazy, but most of it falls short of being a lie.

 

[moomba]

I'm sure it can get a whole lot worse.
Banning them can't really be justified really until they print lies - they may spin things like crazy, but most of it falls short of being a lie.

Any worse and we'll start making a lot of money out of successful law suits. They're very close to crossing a line already, if not already over it.

 

[TCIB]

The anti City stuff is a legacy from the way the old guard introduced the skewed FFP. Years of water drip treatment from Uefa and the G14 made sure we got an unfair tag during our expensive team and infrastructure build.
The media were just selling news so had indifference to whether it was fair or not so it took off.

We overcome FFP and this leaves a vacuum of skewed outrage so lets have a go at the players. We upset Liverpool FC who have a disproportionate number of ex players on punditry so we become a natural target which then carries on to a direct attack on Sterling.
Most of the media are already primed to see us as the oil rich Club so why pick on players from other Clubs unless they sell more papers of course.

Just an opinion.

Bloody hell, 2 very good posts in one day on bluemoon i have read now, wonders never cease :-)
It is an accurate and very concise post indeed.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I'm sure it can get a whole lot worse.
Banning them can't really be justified really until they print lies - they may spin things like crazy, but most of it falls short of being a lie.

Alex Ferguson did it all the time. He refused to speak to the BBC for 7 years because he didn't like the way his son was portrayed in a BBC documentary (which I'm sure didn't contain any lies, or it would have been a lawsuit). He also banned Sky cameras from press conferences for a short while after they broadcast footage of him trying to get another journalist banned for asking a question he didn't like. Hell, he's even refused to talk to MUTV before.

The question is do we want to be like that prick. The best way to deal with the media is to offer exclusive access to journalists that are willing to write positive, or at least balanced stories. The difficult thing for us is finding them.

 

[SilverFox2]

I'm sure it can get a whole lot worse.
Banning them can't really be justified really until they print lies - they may spin things like crazy, but most of it falls short of being a lie.

The press in particular are happy to pick on any personality in any walk of life and print stuff that they believe will create revenue. This is nothing new for them just that they are highjacking football this time to peddle their half truths in the hopes of increasing circulation.
They beg and pray that legal action is taken so that they can prolong their story and give their biased twist to the events having factored in the legal defence costs.
In my opinion they are not anti City or even anti Sterling simply maximising their coverage by hinting at possibilities rather than reporting absolute truth.

It is many years since the Sun and its readers ever printed or read anything that was just news. The same goes for much of our media these days where they all are struggling to embrace the digital age.
That bastion of British news The Financial Times was forced to sell out to the Nikkai a few months ago despite getting 75% of its revenue from downloads so those who continue to rely on the printed word for their revenue are vulnerable to put it mildly.

 

[Phil1]

I don't read newspapers but follow a lot of journalists on Twitter and there seems to have been a turnaround in how the majority are talking about Sterling since the Suns hatchet job. Pretty much to a man they seem to be condemning his treatment.
Unsurprisingly the Custis cunts are staying quiet..

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Alex Ferguson did it all the time. He refused to speak to the BBC for 7 years because he didn't like the way his son was portrayed in a BBC documentary (which I'm sure didn't contain any lies, or it would have been a lawsuit). He also banned Sky cameras from press conferences for a short while after they broadcast footage of him trying to get another journalist banned for asking a question he didn't like. Hell, he's even refused to talk to MUTV before.

The question is do we want to be like that prick. The best way to deal with the media is to offer exclusive access to journalists that are willing to write positive, or at least balanced stories. The difficult thing for us is finding them.

The answer to the question is obviously 'no'! The rest I agree with, I'd forgotten about the MUTV thing!
Utd have huge power over journalists which is why Ferguson could do it, and why everyone just let him do so. City just don't have that weight.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

The press in particular are happy to pick on any personality in any walk of life and print stuff that they believe will create revenue. This is nothing new for them just that they are highjacking football this time to peddle their half truths in the hopes of increasing circulation.
They beg and pray that legal action is taken so that they can prolong their story and give their biased twist to the events having factored in the legal defence costs.
In my opinion they are not anti City or even anti Sterling simply maximising their coverage by hinting at possibilities rather than reporting absolute truth.

I agree with this. They're opportunists and swing in the wind. They are just very good at either predicting the wind or making it themselves. Currently, Utd are in a trough, have lots of positive stories to report and could do with their nasty neighbours with the equally newsworthy manager being rubbished.

As I said, they get away with it,because usually they avoid writing lies; instead they write unconnected statements and allow readers to connect them themselves.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I don't read newspapers but follow a lot of journalists on Twitter and there seems to have been a turnaround in how the majority are talking about Sterling since the Suns hatchet job. Pretty much to a man they seem to be condemning his treatment.
Unsurprisingly the Custis cunts are staying quiet..

There is yet hope in the world!

 

[Phil1]

There is yet hope in the world!

I think the last week might be a turning point for him tbh. The Sun, in their rush to try and ruin the lad might just end up doing the exact opposite.
There's definitely been a more sympathetic response coming from the majority since the bathroom story.