Stuart Brennan. MEN.

[r.soleofsalford]

the bias in the M.E.N. is the same if they can find anything to slag us of they will and if they can find anything positive about them rag ***** its splash all over the papers.

Any evidence? Or is this just a product of your blinkered eyesight and fevered imagination?
And how do you account for the Reds who say the exact opposite? Are they also right, or are they suffering from the same inability to reason as you?

Listen again to this mornings Alan Brazil show and start counting and i`ll start keeping a dairy just for you of the bais in the M.E.N. I can understand why its done but it doesnt mean I have to like it.

and if you want to learn how to be a good journalist try reading Martin Samuel in the Daily Mail. probably one of the few people of your despicable profession worthy reading, at least he tells what he thinks and why he`s come to those conclusions rather than a patchwork of tacked together bollox that most journalist spew.

 

[Bill]

Anyone who knows me will tell you i don't dance to anyone's tune.
I'd expand on it, but as you are a known WUM, and Wummery is the preserve of people who were damaged as children, or have unusually shallow lives, I shan't bother.

good answer. I was teasing you a little :)

Give SB his due Bill, not many jurnos would have the sand to come on here, I find not reading it, doesn't detract from my life mind:)

-- Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:52 pm --

Anyone who knows me will tell you i don't dance to anyone's tune.
I'd expand on it, but as you are a known WUM, and Wummery is the preserve of people who were damaged as children, or have unusually shallow lives, I shan't bother.

good answer. I was teasing you a little :)

Give SB his due Bill, not many jurnos would have the sand to come on here, I find not reading it, doesn't detract from my life mind:)

absolutely mate. he should find a better employer.

 

[andyhinch]

good answer. I was teasing you a little :)

Give SB his due Bill, not many jurnos would have the sand to come on here, I find not reading it, doesn't detract from my life mind:)

-- Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:52 pm --

good answer. I was teasing you a little :)

Give SB his due Bill, not many jurnos would have the sand to come on here, I find not reading it, doesn't detract from my life mind:)

absolutely mate. he should find a better employer.

I might be in need of a technical author, the pays not bad and I'm not a complete **** to work for, he'd have to sort the typo's out mind:)

 

[stuart brennan]

Excuse my anger?, but why the f*** is She writing about a football related story then, tucked away in the Diary? What's wrong with one of the City or United reporters writing it? Or doesn't it work like that at the MEN?(I'm all ears)

Once again. Why did the said article suddenly appear on the online front page when I highlighted it on here? Coincidence? Up to that point it was in the Diary(cudos to Oakie), and floating about in cyberspace, lost to the Mancunian population.

At a guess, I would suggest Dianne wrote the story because she was at the awards ceremony. Only a guess, like.
That might also make a mockery your rather self-congratulatory idea that it was you who forced the MEN into writing something, by some bizarre mechanism using Oakie who, I believe, does not work for, or have any contact with, the MEN.
Or maybe Dianne fell asleep during the event, and hastily wrote the story the next day, when she anxiously checked out your posts on Bluemoon, as we all do, every day.

The website people do not put all stories up immediately, they often stagger them to keep the website fresh.
You really need to think a bit more, and not just leap to your strange conclusions, based on wrong facts, and paranoid fantasy.

 

[squirtyflower]

Just had a quick look at that story online. It was written by Dianne Bourne who, as far as I am aware, is not really interested in football at all. She, no doubt, just saw it as a story given the rivalry between the clubs.
You view it as a City fan and get annoyed, and I am sure there are Utd fans out there who saw it through Red specs and got some satisfaction, but Dianne, and whichever wrote the headline, just saw it as a bit of fun.
Which, of course, it is, unless you are unable to lighten up.
You can be absolutely sure that if there had been awards which had offered the chance to poke fun at United's expense, which might give City fans a laugh, it would have got exactly the same treatment.
There are far more important things in this world to get upset about, surely?

I rarely get involved in these petty arguments as they serve little purpose

However the article from your colleague Dianne was not 'a bit of fun'. It was a two bit piece written in a churlish and amateurish manner. It was uncalled for and if she feels that it was a pice of journalism, and that includes you in this matter too, then it's the pair of you that really needs to get a life.
Unfortunately you all seem to have lost the perspective of being reporters. Instead you seem to think its ok to defend opinion as news, which it isn't, in fact one could consider it to be the thoughts of some star struck thicko blonde bimbo. Network news anyone?

 

[stuart brennan]

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...al-bonanza-manchester-city-manchester-6266243
Manchester City and Manchester United racked up ten goals between them to record convincing wins in the Premier League.

The rivals were both 3-0 up within thirty minutes to blitz their opponents and secure the three points.

United did not add to their tally but held on comfortably to defeat Fulham 3-1 to move onto seventeen points for the season.

But Manchester City did not stop there, scoring four more times to finish up 7-0 winners over a beleaguered Norwich side; Chris Hughton's men have now conceded eleven goals in two games this week in Manchester, while City have moved into the top four.

Urban myth my fucking arse.
Fair for defending the MEN, and yourself, stoutly and I'm sure correctly in places but sorry not in this case.

No, no, no ,no.
Where does it say "ten-goal thriller"? The urban myth I am referring to you was the story that City beat United heavily, and the MEN headline was "United in ten-goal thriller".
That article does not use the phrase "ten-goal thriller" at all - it says ten-goal bonanza, and it was a story just outlining the day's happenings, on the main football site. A headline saying "ten-goal thriller" on that article would have made no sense.
If that is seen as proof of some kind of bias, it is ridiculous.

-- Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:04 pm --

I rarely get involved in these petty arguments as they serve little purpose

However the article from your colleague Dianne was not 'a bit of fun'. It was a two bit piece written in a churlish and amateurish manner. It was uncalled for and if she feels that it was a pice of journalism, and that includes you in this matter too, then it's the pair of you that really needs to get a life.
Unfortunately you all seem to have lost the perspective of being reporters. Instead you seem to think its ok to defend opinion as news, which it isn't, in fact one could consider it to be the thoughts of some star struck thicko blonde bimbo. Network news anyone?

I don't have a view on the article at all - the subject of it holds no interest for me, and the manner in which it is written does not bother me one way or the other.
My honest view is that anyone who is bothered by something as trivial and transient as that, when there are terrible things going on in the world, and in this city, needs to take a look at themselves.

 

[Shirley]

Excuse my anger?, but why the f*** is She writing about a football related story then, tucked away in the Diary? What's wrong with one of the City or United reporters writing it? Or doesn't it work like that at the MEN?(I'm all ears)

Once again. Why did the said article suddenly appear on the online front page when I highlighted it on here? Coincidence? Up to that point it was in the Diary(cudos to Oakie), and floating about in cyberspace, lost to the Mancunian population.

At a guess, I would suggest Dianne wrote the story because she was at the awards ceremony. Only a guess, like.
That might also make a mockery your rather self-congratulatory idea that it was you who forced the MEN into writing something, by some bizarre mechanism using Oakie who, I believe, does not work for, or have any contact with, the MEN.
Or maybe Dianne fell asleep during the event, and hastily wrote the story the next day, when she anxiously checked out your posts on Bluemoon, as we all do, every day.

The website people do not put all stories up immediately, they often stagger them to keep the website fresh.
You really need to think a bit more, and not just leap to your strange conclusions, based on wrong facts, and paranoid fantasy.

SB,
Politics, religion and football, you should know better.

 

[Rammy Blue]

That article does not use the phrase "ten-goal thriller" at all - it says ten-goal bonanza, and it was a story just outlining the day's happenings, on the main football site. A headline saying "ten-goal thriller" on that article would have made no sense.
If that is seen as proof of some kind of bias, it is ridiculous.

You have to be taking the piss?

You defend that headline as being a story outlining the day's happenings, that really is unreal.

We scored 7 and the scum scored 3 and you think "Ten-goal bonanza" is an un-biased headline....

You really couldn't make it up.

 

[squirtyflower]

My honest view is that anyone who is bothered by something as trivial and transient as that, when there are terrible things going on in the world, and in this city, needs to take a look at themselves.

why bother with any of the inane drivel that frequents 90% of newspapers, including what you write, and let's all of us concentrate on making the world a better place

PS, something i have made a career out of for about 33 years, but by all means you go ahead and belittle me but in turn belittle your job and what you are paid for

next time you get your hands dirty with actually improving the lives of people in our fair city give me a call and we'll compare notes

 

[r.soleofsalford]

My honest view is that anyone who is bothered by something as trivial and transient as that, when there are terrible things going on in the world, and in this city, needs to take a look at themselves.

why bother with any of the inane drivel that frequents 90% of newspapers, including what you write, and let's all of us concentrate on making the world a better place

PS, something i have made a career out of for about 33 years, but by all means you go ahead and belittle me but in turn belittle your job and what you are paid for

next time you get your hands dirty with actually improving the lives of people in our fair city give me a call and we'll compare notes

OUCH!!!