Time for the local rags to join ashley out campaign

Since our beloved club won't let the local journalists into the ground anymore for covering the protest march, is it about time they joined the campaign to rid us of these buffoons once and for all. They could help organise and publicise demonstrations etc.

#timeforchange

 

I just have this feeling that we need to get used to fatty for quite a while yet mate.

 

Here's the article. Talk about censorship.

http://www.thejournal.co.uk/sport/f...wcastle-united-refuse-take-questions-6246275?

 

Coming to something when the local press are shut out by this Wendy Taylor, never heard of her before.

How many people in the region that can't get to the games rely on the coverage by the Ronnie?

Plus the fact that the club get a lot of free publicity from it.

 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/

 

I have just read the letter from Wendy Taylor, NUFC Press Officer ? It is one of the most disjointed and poorly written responses l have ever seen. It is woeful, especially when you consider it is written by the clubs Press Officer.
Just about sums it up really. Unprofessional and shoddy.

Well l for one hope that the gloves come off and these three newspapers take Ashley and his pathetic regime on full force.
Who said he was immune to criticism, he obviously isn't. Maybe this is a catalyst for change, banning our local press from covering an issue that was of real concern to most supporters is just laughable.

Ashley and his cronies really do add credence to the old saying don't they...... It's my ball and your not playing with it....... Comes to mind, yet another huge error of judgement on their part. Totally laughable.

 

I think it shows quite clearly how little regard Ashley has for how the club and he is viewed outwardly. If anyone was under any illusion about who's club it is, this should make it quite clear. Typical response of a petty billionaire doing as he pleases and ruling in a dictator type fashion. Born out of the school "there can be only one" business mantra bollocks.

 

I hope that the local paper just have blank spaces where the match reports would normally be.

 

Have the Local radio stations been banned as well ???
I'm sure that I heard reports on the radio regarding this march every hour on the day of the march

 

Check the Mirror lads, i know it's the Mirror and all but this has gone national. A national paper on your side could turn the screw on Ashley if you wanted to. They've laid into Port Vale too.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/clubs-like-newcastle-port-vale-2649302

Clubs like Newcastle and Port Vale who ban local papers are guilty of petty, shameful bullying
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Big-time football clubs who ban their local papers for asking relevant questions are not just scoring own goals.

They are loading both barrels of a shotgun, taking careful aim and shooting themselves in each foot.

Except in Newcastle owner Mike Ashley and Port Vale chairman Norman Smurthwaite's cases, they would probably miss.

For Newcastle manager Alan Pardew to blank questions from local paper scribes after Sunday's derby defeat by Sunderland was a masterpiece of bad timing.

Apparently the club took exception to balanced, unhysterical coverage of a protest march against Ashley's regime before the 2-2 draw with Liverpool earlier this month.

How odd. Pardew's first game in charge, following the brutal sacking of Chris Hughton in December 2010, was also against Liverpool - and before kick-off there was a voluble delegation of Toon foot soldiers camped outside the main entrance, making their feelings known about the changing of the guard.

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Every paper, every radio station, every TV channel referred to it. But nobody was banned, possibly because Pardew's reign began with a 3-1 win. Trebles all round!

To ban representatives of the Evening Chronicle, Journal and Sunday Sun from joining the inquest into a damaging defeat against struggling local rivals is petty, small-minded, jumped-up, self-important, fat-faced arrogance.

Even in an age of 24-hour rolling tickertape on Sky Sports, social media and Radio Knee-Jerk phone-in drivel, local newspapers are an umbilical cord between clubs and their fanbases.

They are also pillars of local democracy who hold politicians, judges and, yes, football clubs to account. They are indispensable allies of fans ripped off by ticket prices, fobbed off by useless signings or, say, wrestling with their consciences over sponsorship deals with payday sharks.

Losing against rock-bottom Sunderland was bad enough for civic pride on Tyneside. But, hey, Newcastle have been there before - in 2007-8, when they were the only team to lose against Derby, the worst Premier League side in history.

But shame on you, Newcastle United, for bullying local papers who cover your patch brilliantly. If you don't like what they write, put your case to the Gallowgate end through your in-house TV channel or official Pravda website.

And as for the ludicrous Mr Smurthwaite at Vale Park... Are you sure it's a good idea to charge the Sentinel £10,000 a year to cover League One football at a ground where there are more seats empty than occupied every week?

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Norman Smurthwaite: HIs press policy could do with a re-think
Is it really, honestly, truly worth going to war with your biggest asset in the Potteries over the late delivery of the club's limited edition third strip?

Have a lie down in a darkened room for half an hour and reconsider, there's a good chap.

Because if you really want to know the value of the Sentinel's excellent coverage, they could always send you an invoice for the acres of free publicity they provide every week on their sports pages, and charge you the going rate for display advertisements.

They can always forget - purely by accident, of course - to publish pictures of Vale players and staff in branded sponsors' kit. That would go down well with your commercial partners, wouldn't it?

And next time Port Vale is insolvent, don't go running to the nasty local paper and ask for help in saving the club - because they might tell you to get stuffed.

Fans like to read about their clubs. And newsprint is still easier on the eye than squinting at some smart phone, or trying to fire up a laptop on a crowded bus or train.

So the message to clubs - great and small, Toon and Vale - is simple. Don't go bullying your local papers. Nobody likes bullies.

And remember: Comment is free, facts are sacred.

 

Fat Mike has thick skin mind but it's good that the press are sticking together. I can see them digging some big time dirt on him now. We'll probably find out that he's a cross dressing albino ginger lover.

 

It's also another stain on our club. Cheers fatty.

 

I think in a long line of bad mistakes this could be Fatboy's worst. The press boys do not take kindly to attempts at censorship and do not make good enemies.

 

I just lol at what people think they can achieve by doing these marches.

 

Well, if you read the other posts and think about it for a while, you may come to the conclusion that,

They cared enough to get off their arses and do something pro-active
They got plenty of good productive and supportive coverage of the issue
They got, if inadvertently, a local press ban
That got national press coverage and support from other papers/journalists against censorship
That's getting Ashley and his cronies more neg rep
That's got people thinking about what they might be prepared to do to push to bet this idiot out of our club
That's got to be better than poking fun and deriding those who are at least prepared to try and stand up to him, don't you think.

 

The problem is though GITF is a number of those turning up turned up for the sake of it, and far too many were there for self publicity in my opinion. These sorted of half arsed stampedes are not only ineffective, I agree with Tash, they are kind of laughable. Did you see the sum total of their efforts? It was pretty pathetic stuff.

 

Sorry Pouchy, cannot agree with you on this one. I really don't care what the motivation was for turning up, nd yes for some it is in the hope of publicity and selfish reasons, sadly some may be looking for confrontation. But the point is that they made a stand, and inadvertently the sum total of their efforts was to elicit a reaction out of Fatty by way of an over-reaction to the press coverage, that has ultimately led him and his drones into making one of the worst decisions of his tenure. If the national press really wants to take this on, then he has shot himself in the foot big time. Awl said in my response to Tash, protest marches don't do much for me either, but it has had an effect. A small pebble in the sea maybe, but the ripples are there to see.

 

It is farsical that Ashley and co. ever believed this was the way to go! I mean is he going to ban the fans that joined in with the march? I am not a fan of marches or demonstrations against the club but people have the right to if they want in the same way the the papers have the right to cover these stories. Anyone who has even give smallest idea about the goings on at our club will have known there was a march taking place before the derby and all the powers than be have done is give more publicity to the cause. It's almost like they enjoy portraying a negative image of themselves.

 

I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Pardew. Did you see the look on his face when Wendy Taylor told him to shut up at the press conference?

How the hell can he work under these circumstances?

Anway, Ashley has sown the wind. He will reap the whirlwind. Come on journos! Give it to the borderline fascist with both barrels.

 

What is interesting is that he has shareholders in SD. Negative press could potentially adversely affect value. If the fans want to stick it to him, this is the way. If he has things to hide and Trinity Mirror group inclined to find them.....