Media Bias

[FlamingLip]

I don't really have a problem with Radio Sheffield, just the Stir.

The only gripe I have with RS currently is why they feel the need to let Carloss drawl on for 2 or 3 times longer than other local managers on a Saturday when...
1/ Most of what he says is illegible
and
2/ Most of South Yorkshire don't give a feck and are bored witless.

Stick him online after 3-4 minutes like the other managers. He's the most boring, even Ferguson at Donny sound exciting compared to him.

"Carlos" would've made a great Little Britain character.

I find it funny how the mumbled shit he spouts effectively motivates the following week's callers/presenters in the game of 'what did Carlos really mean?'

 

[GrayBlade]

"Carlos" would've made a great Little Britain character.

I find it funny how the mumbled shit he spouts effectively motivates the following week's callers/presenters in the game of 'what did Carlos really mean?'

It actually means that he can only speak in repetitive pigeon English, but to some that makes sound a bit like José Mourinho, so his every word needs to be hung upon.

The extra 's' is intentional by the way, wishful thinking l.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Did anyone watch last Saturday nites CH5 football show,i missed it.............were we on first ? just wondering seeing as we got a pasting at Walsall.

 

[Grappler]

"Carlos" would've made a great Little Britain character.

I find it funny how the mumbled shit he spouts effectively motivates the following week's callers/presenters in the game of 'what did Carlos really mean?'

Funniest one I remember, after about his second or third game in charge, after the game

Radio Sheffield: Well, Carlos, your thoughts on the game please

Carlos: Well, if you are asking if I am happy with the draw or not happy with the draw, I say I am not happy with the draw......

The pigs had just won the game????

 

[blade67]

In the last few weeks on here alone, I've seen all of these mooted as media organisations that are biased against United:

• Radio Sheffield
• Sheffield Star
• Sheffield Telegraph
• Goal Rush on Channel 5 (!)

In the past apparently the Football League Show on the BBC ALSO hated United. Which begs the question: do you seriously think local newspapers, radio stations and national TV shows are all going to be biased against us? I don't know if you're all suffering from collective paranoia or what, but it seems extremely unlikely to me.

now you've said it.

Don't forget the FA, the council and that Jeremy Corbin is always wearing blue isn't he?

 

[FlamingLip]

Funniest one I remember, after about his second or third game in charge, after the game

Radio Sheffield: Well, Carlos, your thoughts on the game please

Carlos: Well, if you are asking if I am happy with the draw or not happy with the draw, I say I am not happy with the draw......

The pigs had just won the game????

There have been some quality momentary awkward silences when Staton is obviously scratching his head for an ejector button topic, when all he really wants to say is:

"excuse me Carlos, I don't understand a single word you're saying"

To which Mr Carlos would probably respond,

"yes, a game of how you say? two semis"

 

[GrayBlade]

Did anyone watch last Saturday nites CH5 football show,i missed it.............were we on first ? just wondering seeing as we got a pasting at Walsall.

They broke with tradition due to several managers being sacked, and we were squeezed on at the back end Chippy so they did us a favour mate.

 

[GrayBlade]

Apparently Donald Trump can't stand us either.

Dunna worry. I've got it on good authority that Donald will push Scarborough Holdings to the front of the queue for his big new Whitehouse extension next week.

Sure we've got to loan DC United Sharp and Fleck for the rest of the season but HEY, it's a small price to pay for such a good relationship.

 

[VEGASBLADE]

With not getting to many away game I do enjoy the radio Sheffield commentary but it's seem that every 5 minutes it's right let's go round the grounds ffs Noooooo

 

[snootyfenooty]

In the last few weeks on here alone, I've seen all of these mooted as media organisations that are biased against United:

• Radio Sheffield
• Sheffield Star
• Sheffield Telegraph
• Goal Rush on Channel 5 (!)

You forgot about the Daily Mail.

 

[sothall blade]

The Star and RS definitely. We didn't make no friends in the national press due to the "Carlos Tevez affair". That particular incident wasn't reported objectively by many in the national press and we seemed to somehow come out of it as the villains.

Quite right mate, this twat took great delight in writing is crap about us

 

[blade67]

He was defending Blackwell for quite some time.

He did. I remember him losing his cool with fans over Cotterill. They were all calling for Cotterill to play and I think walker called some out as morons. Very funny

 

[snootyfenooty]

I've long held a theory as to why certain clubs cop it in the media (national media that is) and not others. At the top end you have a dozen or so clubs who the media would be terrified of offending for fear of being cut off from the club. Instead you have the media grovelling all over them.

At the other end of the scale you have about 50 clubs who are in reality a bunch of non-entities who the media really doesn't give a shiny shit about.

Then, you have a core of clubs somewhere in the middle who are not big enough to be wary of but are big enough to create a headline. Conveniently for the media that includes the likes of us. Lets be fair, we've been at the centre of enough controversies over the past 20 years or so to give them something to write about.

 

[Top Cat]

"Carlos" would've made a great Little Britain character.

I find it funny how the mumbled shit he spouts effectively motivates the following week's callers/presenters in the game of 'what did Carlos really mean?'

 

[I should coco]

Don Valley stadium wouldn't have been needed.So all Sheffield people can thank the council ( pig council) for a debt that is still not paid up.

And we'd be watching the pitch across an athletics track.....

Careful what you wish for.

 

[lawlessdan]

Funniest one I remember, after about his second or third game in charge, after the game

Radio Sheffield: Well, Carlos, your thoughts on the game please

Carlos: Well, if you are asking if I am happy with the draw or not happy with the draw, I say I am not happy with the draw......

The pigs had just won the game????

Slightly off topic but my favourite interview was with Chris Turner and he said "it's not my job to motivate these players, who comes to motivate me every morning"

 

[Pierre's PC]

On all honesty and this may be a radical thought but if you don't think much about Wednesday then you don't notice the media bias and end up thinking about more important things in your limited waking hours.

Don't follow their supporters on twatter
Ignore Facebook posts
Don't Google for images
Don't count the number of stories that they are mentioned.
Don't follow their results.
Don't listen to radio Sheffield during football heaven
Don't read the star.

Love life instead and your world will be free of their influence.

 

[blade too long]

proper journalism
https://footballpink.net/2013/12/19/the-men-who-sold-the-dream/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ough-inquest-sheffield-wednesday-safety-rules

 

[Living In a Fantasy World]

The Star and RS definitely. We didn't make no friends in the national press due to the "Carlos Tevez affair". That particular incident wasn't reported objectively by many in the national press and we seemed to somehow come out of it as the villains.

"West ham are playing a player illegally!!, SUE them SUE them mawhahahahaha!!!!" damn how could we be so evil

 

[SB_90]

I was at work & in the 1st yr they did a behavioural thing with laminated a4 sheets. I dont know probally to understand us better it was strangly interesting & pointless at the same time But Weirdly it might help here as to why some people think that every media outlets has it in for us without trying to go all philosopical

there was about 7 categories with pros & cons. apparently a trait of competitive people (which as football fans we are) is they can think that world's against them

 

[Tezza1889]

In the last few weeks on here alone, I've seen all of these mooted as media organisations that are biased against United:

• Radio Sheffield
• Sheffield Star
• Sheffield Telegraph
• Goal Rush on Channel 5 (!)

In the past apparently the Football League Show on the BBC ALSO hated United. Which begs the question: do you seriously think local newspapers, radio stations and national TV shows are all going to be biased against us? I don't know if you're all suffering from collective paranoia or what, but it seems extremely unlikely to me.

I'm not reading the whole thread...

But unless it's not been mentioned before I'll bring this up.. years ago that West Brom knobcheese frank skinner pissed on us as often as possible when on tv, he had an agenda, and so do I, I'm not a violent man, but if he ever rolls up in Sheffield filming whatever crap he's arselicked his way into and I catch sight of him, we'll be heading for the Argos car park..

 

[Tezza1889]

There have been some quality momentary awkward silences when Staton is obviously scratching his head for an ejector button topic, when all he really wants to say is:

"excuse me Carlos, I don't understand a single word you're saying"

To which Mr Carlos would probably respond,

"yes, a game of how you say? two semis"

To be honest you're right, I tweet them quite often just to let them know they're inadequate and the whole Red side can spot it a mile off, the other day some pig suggested that if Carlos didn't get them up he'd be fired at the end of the season, the presenter was clearly choked to the point he couldn't reply...

I tweeted him to say he could have just cried on air instead of choking up, we'd have understood..... to be honest it's like the bird saying she's got somebody else when the pigs moan about Carlos, you can be met with anger or tears from the resident sympathiser behind the mike.....

 

[mattbianco1]

I think part of is the fact that only we may slag us off. There can be a thread on here saying how garbage we played in a game, but if the media or someone not affiliated to United says it, we think they're being biased and picking on us.

I have a mate like that.

 

[I should coco]

From that Gruniad piece (my bold):
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ough-inquest-sheffield-wednesday-safety-rules

Chester said that when he took over from the previous secretary, Eric England, he was aware that "radial" fences, built in the 1980s to divide the Leppings Lane terrace, had reduced its capacity to less than the maximum 10,100 stated on the safety certificate, drawn up in 1979. Despite that, the certificate and plans attached to it of the ground were never updated.

Questioned by Christina Lambert QC, Chester acknowledged that Sheffield Wednesday was in breach of the terms and conditions of its safety certificate because the club had no system for counting the number of supporters entering each part of the ground.

The certificate stated that 7,200 was the maximum capacity on the west terrace, Leppings Lane, and 2,900 on the north-west terrace in the corner. However, the club's turnstile counting system could not track which part of the ground fans entered after coming through the turnstiles numbered 7 to 23, and therefore could not count how many were in those areas.

Explaining the purpose of a football club safety certificate, Chester said: "It is to ensure that the paying public are catered for and are hosted in a ground safe in the knowledge that the ground is safe for them."

Genuine question, has the Stir covered the above in detail?

 

[cahill]

Not overly bothered about Media bias whether actual or perceived. If you're programmed ( in your thinking) to look for it then you'll find it, hypervigilance, selective abstraction, to use psychological terms.

That said , Rob Staton doesn't work too hard to hide his porcine preferences.

I honestly think it would work if RS presenters were open about their allegiances instead of being all coy and pissing themselves laughing at threads like these

 

[The Crab]

Dunna worry. I've got it on good authority that Donald will push Scarborough Holdings to the front of the queue for his big new Whitehouse extension next week.

Sure we've got to loan DC United Sharp and Fleck for the rest of the season but HEY, it's a small price to pay for such a good relationship.

I'd heard we'd sent them someone who was a bit down on his luck to do some unseen work on the Mexican Wall.

 

[Bladesman]

From that Gruniad piece (my bold):
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ough-inquest-sheffield-wednesday-safety-rules

Chester said that when he took over from the previous secretary, Eric England, he was aware that "radial" fences, built in the 1980s to divide the Leppings Lane terrace, had reduced its capacity to less than the maximum 10,100 stated on the safety certificate, drawn up in 1979. Despite that, the certificate and plans attached to it of the ground were never updated.

Questioned by Christina Lambert QC, Chester acknowledged that Sheffield Wednesday was in breach of the terms and conditions of its safety certificate because the club had no system for counting the number of supporters entering each part of the ground.

The certificate stated that 7,200 was the maximum capacity on the west terrace, Leppings Lane, and 2,900 on the north-west terrace in the corner. However, the club's turnstile counting system could not track which part of the ground fans entered after coming through the turnstiles numbered 7 to 23, and therefore could not count how many were in those areas.

Explaining the purpose of a football club safety certificate, Chester said: "It is to ensure that the paying public are catered for and are hosted in a ground safe in the knowledge that the ground is safe for them."

Genuine question, has the Stir covered the above in detail?

Not in great detail from what I have found. They elbowed in a paragraph or so in the middle of an article about Duckenfield last year but I have searched and seen little else from The Star about it.

There are more than enough articles about the safety certificate elsewhere in the media. Odd that The Star should be so quiet about it yet the BBC and other media outlets have been running articles on the matter for years.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Some people just feel the need to make themselves feel important by taking the position that everybody is against them.

It's a form of attention seeking and the same mentality a lot of conspiracy theorists have in a sort of 'I know something you don't know' kind of way.

Easy for you to say, when The Star and Radio Sheffield can't wait to big up your club every change they get.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Easy for you to say, when The Star and Radio Sheffield can't wait to big up your club every change they get.

I thought they were anti United?

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

I thought they were anti United?

I wasn't being serious.