media

Anyone else starting too get abit pissed off with the media coverage this club gets ? 3 sides in Europe last night from England. 2 of them get 2 page spreads whilst we get a column on a page squeezed in somewhere. It's not just the papers but on tele you hear Chelsea and spurs mentioned then its oh and Newcastle. Itv don't pick us on any of there channels and
When they do it's itv 4 ! It's embarrassing !

 

Hi.
Thought I'd stop lurking and say hello.
I get angry when we see this kind of media bias. It's so blatant.

 

Welcome on board and rep!

I agree with the whole media bias thing- it gets beyond a joke sometimes.

 

Her'es some green bars. Rep will kick in when you post 50 posts.

 

Thought it was nice to Ginola obviously stretching out the Newcastle bit on the ITV interview before the game

 

The media bias is so unapologetic and brazen I've lost all faith in UK professional sports journalism. And I'm a journalist myself.

It seems sport is exempt from impartiality these days and the smug idiots we get setting the agenda for newspaper, radio and TV seem oblivious.

This bizarre hard-on for Spurs that has emerged out of Redknapp's reign seems to make them the media darlings of the moment.
Last night on Five Live we had Tony Livesey's show AFTER the football coverage on special "Bale watch" monitoring his potential injury.

Apart from the show's producers who are clearly amongst spurs fans, who cares? He's not even an England player. Did we get the same kind of concern for Massadio Haidara?
No, because as Livesey put it Bale is "our Lionel Messi"... WTF??!!

Just remember that the Europa League is suddenly given some credence this year because two Laaaandon clubs are in the Quarter Finals. If it was only Newcastle left in it
or (god forbid) we actually won it the trophy would revert back to being a tinpot waste of time for Champions League rejects. I'm not falling for it.

The only consolation after last night is it seems they won't now get that satisfaction...

 

Atleast you have the local media all sewn up.

 

Unbelievable..The local TV stations even tried to put a positive slant on hundreds of your fans going on the rampage and terorising local league footballers and their supporters...You lot don't even begin to know what it's like to be on the receiving end of media bias...Just look at the ****e we have had to deal with over the Di Canio saga!

 

Good attempt RAW but we've had tons over the years, in more recent times they've had plenty of fuel but coverage we got over:

Keegan Episode 2 (the coming, the going, the aftermath)
Relegation
Stadium

are just a few examples of the press having a field day over 'those querky emotional idiots up in Newcastle'. The local media are biased but that's the same in most places (and Newcastle benefit from that much more than Sunderland) but the national press tear into us regularly.

 

Lets be honest, the press have an idea of what a typical fan is for each club and then whenever they want they go to the stadium and filter through the fans until they find one that fits what they want and put a microphone in front of them - cringeworthy for fans of most clubs i think.

 

I had to read the back pages of the metro twice today to even find any mention of the benfica match. Annoying.

 

We could go 1 down in the return leg, score 3 goals in the last 10 minutes and then win on penalties and we'd still get a single column, most likely saying how we were lucky and Benfica ran out of steam...

 

We could win 6-0, with Cabaye scoring 5 and setting the other up for Cisse, and the only reporting of it would be:

"Liver in for £10mill Cabaye after stellar Benfica performance"

 

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Ha well said ! Also I'm sick of the media portraying us as these blood thirsty over the top fans who demand success. Is it so much too ask for us too challenge for a trophy Every now and again ? It's been almost 50 years since our last trophy and it's embarrassing. You go through all the teams that have won one since then and you get teams like Coventry Etc. is it too much too ask really !?

 

Used to it by now, but that doesn't mean it's right. Sick to the core with the football media, it's an old-boys and sycophants club through and through.

I do agree that Sunderland have been given a raw deal in the last few days though. There was nothing like this sort of attention when Di Canio took the Swindon job, but then again, in the view of the media, if you aren't one of the old Big Four or City/Spurs, or at least play in the Premier League, you may as well not exist.

 

Your fans...


"So we get beaten by Wigan and my mum gets racially abused by a Sunderland fan," Bent wrote on his Twitter feed.



Sunderland fan Peter Copeland avoids jail for racist tweets about Newcastle United striker Demba Ba





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Police are investigating claims of racist abuse against a Newcastle United player during the team's Premier League derby clash with Sunderland.




And let's not forget these disgraceful scenes...





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Dateline: 16 March, 1983: Sunderland chairman: ‘I wish we had Newcastle’s fans’





"HE'S made a rod for his own back," said Mick Smith, secretary of the Jarrow branch of the Sunderland Supporters' Association, reacting to the latest outburst from then club chairman Tom Cowie.
In an interview with the Gazette’s Dick Kirkup, motor firm magnate Cowie delivered a shocking put-down of his team’s fans, saying: “I believe Newcastle supporters are more loyal than Sunderland’s.”
He compounded the insult by adding: “Right now, we have a better-than-average product.
“I would prefer to be in our position than Newcastle’s – but I would like to swap the fans.” The Sunderland chairman was speaking out over low attendances at Roker Park.

 

Never in the field of Association Football have so many fans been on so many pitches.

 

I put a similar thread up a couple of weeks ago,i don't listen to talk ****e anymore the station is based in London but they really are terrible!

 

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