Update from Vicky Kloss on The Sunday Supplement Attack

[fbloke]

I find the Beasley situation very interesting as it is indicative of the problem we have in sports journalism in the UK.

Beasley heard a 'rumour' on Sky and carried on believing that to be the truth for close to 12 months until A FAN emailed him and corrected him.

Only then does his natural investigative journalism kick in and he finds, hey presto! that he had predicated his dislike and therefore inaccurate reporting from the previous 12 months on a simple falsehood.

He never checked with his FRIEND Mark Hughes - however he openly able to talk about his close relationship with Hughes and the Tafia.

Also, all the other celebrity sports journos that he knows failed to point this out to him?

So next time we get an email from a journo, editor or even proprietor of a newspaper that tells us that their sources are checked, double checked and triple checked for accuracy should we all assume that that means they turn on SSN at 1pm, 2pm and sometimes 3pm?

 

[ifiwasarichfan]

Before anyone forgets; their was more than just Beesley on the Show. The Smith Character( the one who looked like Ray Reardon) threw out to the General Public another popular misconception; Yaya's astronimical wages of 220K a week?.

Another example of a stupid Newspaper comment becoming "Fact".

 

[Damocles]

This was sent by Rob Beasley to the club, before they contacted him.

Dear Vicky

On Sunday I made some very strong comments on television about the behaviour of Manchester City and Roberto Mancini at the time of the departure of Mark Hughes.

I was expressing my sincerely-held personal views based on the belief that Mr Mancini was at the game on the day that Mr Hughes was relieved of his duties.

I gained this information from a widely respected and reputable news organisation so I had no reason to doubt them.

Since Sunday morning's show, though, City fans have been in touch to say that the news report of Mr Mancini's presence at the game was later retracted.

Unfortunately I was not aware of this as I was not at the game that day or involved in covering the story and how events actually unfolded.

Now that I am aware of this development it is clear that my comments were inappropriate.

So I would like to make a full and unreserved apology to Manchester City Football Club, to Mr Roberto Mancini and to City fans.

I do so freely and under no duress.

My view is that if I want football clubs to act with "class and dignity" then I must try and do the same.

So please can you pass on my apology to all concerned. Thanks.

Best Wishes

Rob Beasley

 

[nijinskybell]

This was sent by Rob Beasley to the club, before they contacted him.

Dear Vicky

On Sunday I made some very strong comments on television about the behaviour of Manchester City and Roberto Mancini at the time of the departure of Mark Hughes.

I was expressing my sincerely-held personal views based on the belief that Mr Mancini was at the game on the day that Mr Hughes was relieved of his duties.

I gained this information from a widely respected and reputable news organisation so I had no reason to doubt them.

Since Sunday morning's show, though, City fans have been in touch to say that the news report of Mr Mancini's presence at the game was later retracted.

Unfortunately I was not aware of this as I was not at the game that day or involved in covering the story and how events actually unfolded.

Now that I am aware of this development it is clear that my comments were inappropriate.

So I would like to make a full and unreserved apology to Manchester City Football Club, to Mr Roberto Mancini and to City fans.

I do so freely and under no duress.

My view is that if I want football clubs to act with "class and dignity" then I must try and do the same.

So please can you pass on my apology to all concerned. Thanks.

Best Wishes

Rob Beasley

I find it quite incredible that he could have believed this scenario for nearly a year without having discussed it with colleagues, whether at his own 'publication', other journos and/or TV equivalents and not one of them knew about the Sky retraction and attempted to correct his jaundiced views. He actually works for Sky aswell. He went way OTT and is simply, desperately trying to avoid the fallout and limit the personal damage.

Following emails from some random City fans he then took it upon himself to check his sources and facts? Sorry, that just beggars belief.

When he writes a full and prominent apology in his 'news'paper and broadcasts a full apology I might think he is being genuine.

 

[cheekybids]

This was sent by Rob Beasley to the club, before they contacted him.

Dear Vicky

On Sunday I made some very strong comments on television about the behaviour of Manchester City and Roberto Mancini at the time of the departure of Mark Hughes.

I was expressing my sincerely-held personal views based on the belief that Mr Mancini was at the game on the day that Mr Hughes was relieved of his duties.

I gained this information from a widely respected and reputable news organisation so I had no reason to doubt them.

Since Sunday morning's show, though, City fans have been in touch to say that the news report of Mr Mancini's presence at the game was later retracted.

Unfortunately I was not aware of this as I was not at the game that day or involved in covering the story and how events actually unfolded.

Now that I am aware of this development it is clear that my comments were inappropriate.

So I would like to make a full and unreserved apology to Manchester City Football Club, to Mr Roberto Mancini and to City fans.

I do so freely and under no duress.

My view is that if I want football clubs to act with "class and dignity" then I must try and do the same.

So please can you pass on my apology to all concerned. Thanks.

Best Wishes

Rob Beasley

nice private letter that will not be seen by most of the people who witnessed his tirade. The guys a prick and a liar as he knew full well that Mancini was not at the game cos City made such an issue about it - released statements and got the lawyers involved so any hack would have known it.

 

[mancunial]

i would tell him to stick his apology up his wideload, if anyone believes that it will stop him from sticking the boot in, in the future then they are naive,it was not the statement of mancini being in the stands it was the way he and smith put their views over,it was with venom and very poisonous,i would not hesitate to drag these puppets through the a court of law if i owned man city, it all stank of hypocrisy and agenda, my view of it is that it goes a lot further than football and in any other walk of life would be called industrial espionage?

 

[lloydie]

Still not buying it, insincere "look at me, I'm classy" after he's done the damage. Bit like the Sun with their miniscule apologies/retractions.

 

[johnny crossan]

No sackcloth and ashes yet - it's the Bad, Silly, Sugar Daddy theme today

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