Hi all,
I use Bloomberg for work which has a news function. I obviously have a news feed for Liverpool news!!
I often use it to spot patterns across different media sources and the one name that often pops up is the Daily Fail. 7 articles and only one half decent spin on one article!! In light of yesterday's strong performance, a couple of good goals, some great fluid play and a good European atmosphere these are the stories that are highlighted...
Daily Mail (GB) : Will Suarez face fresh ban after 'stamping' on Zenit defender...
Daily Mail (GB) : Jamie Carragher's 150th and final European appearance hows [sic] how far Liverpool have fallen
Daily Mail (GB) : Luis Suarez - will Liverpool's striker join Bayern Munich in the summer?
Daily Mail (GB) : Brave Reds so near and yet so far [A HALF POSITIVE ONE!! ]
Daily Mail (GB) : Raheem Sterling's common assault case adjourned, hearing rescheduled
Daily Mail (GB) : Steven Gerrard: My Liverpool and England teammates are always ribbing me for my dress sense
Daily Mail (GB) : Luis Suarez could face European ban after appearing to stamp on Zenit defender
This paper is such a joke. While they are free to obviously report what they wish there is clearly an agenda here! Literally not one headline about the game itself!!
FYI
When I filter for Tottenham news - 3 articles
When I filter for Newcastle news - 3 articles
When I filter for Chelsea news - 5 articles (2 of which mention Hazard 'bailing out' Rafa, not Chelsea)
Pathetic
Daily Fail
posted on 22/2/13
TOOR.
This is the best link I could find.
http://www.anitaroddick.com/readmore.php?sid=556
Russell Brand has regularly commented on their Hitler links. Thanks one of the reasons they were gunning for him so vehemently after sachsgate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/27/russell-brand-daily-mail-fawlty-towers
posted on 22/2/13
Give the Fail some credit, they were the paper that revealed 'Exclusively' that Mancini was going to be the new Russia manger and Pep was going to replace him at City.
posted on 23/2/13
comment by ReincarnatedRed (U1176)
posted 10 hours, 17 minutes ago
People say the BBC has got worse since its move to Salford but at least the majority of what they do is unbiased, realistic and good. Given that the alternatives are Talksport, Sky and the newspapers, we should be grateful that we have the BBC.
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I hope that's sarcasm, the change in the BBC has nothing to do with the move to salford, the rot had already set in years ago, Blair saw to that, after the dr. david kelly/wmd stuff, the bbc haven't been the same since they had their teeth removed.
However, it's the same everywhere, the media is either agenda or money driven or both and they are all more than happy to make up the news rather than just report it.
As for the daily fail itself, I don't care that it exists, that's what happens when you have freedom of speech, sometimes you have to listen to stuff you don't want to hear and don't agree with.
If you want to see the media at work, try watching the next big 'incident' that happens, oscar pistorious case has been the most recent one.
I said right from the start that he won't get a fair trial, ever. The media's mind was made up immediately, press speculation was rife, based upon the evidence that the police had put forward, so before the man has even made it to trial, they've got him hung, drawn and quartered as a roid-raging guy with a gun and a handful of syringes.
Roll forwards a few days and we find out that the police are being headed up by a guy on 7 attempted murder charges, who wouldn't know how to protect the chain of evidence, couldn't collect it properly and changed accounts of what happened.
Meanwhile, across the planet, most people have already polarised around their particular interpretation of the events, as fed to them by their favourite media outlet.
posted on 23/2/13
REGGIE's spot on. No media outlet in the world tells you 'the news'. They tell you the version of the news they want you to hear as dictated to them by whichever political or corporate monolith is surreptitiously running them. The great unwashed then process the information as undisputed fact and form their opinion based on it, regardless of how far from the truth it has travelled.
As Malcolm X said:
“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
posted on 23/2/13
Whilst I am very hesitant to defend the Daily Mail surely this headline does refer to the game?
Daily Mail (GB) : Brave Reds so near and yet so far [A HALF POSITIVE ONE!! ]
I prefer the Sun or the Daily Star or any other paper that doesn't dress up its ignorance and hatred with good writing and big words....
I prefer my racists stupid basically, it is the articulate sounding ones you have to watch out for...
posted on 23/2/13
Exactly. Malcolm X says it. However when I say it, I'm ridiculed. People don't like to be called sheep.
posted on 23/2/13
To be fair, TOOR, Malcolm X probably has a wider global appeal than you.
posted on 23/2/13
What else do you expect from the Mail? They'll take any sort of negativity and spin it harder than Alastair Campbell could ever dream of doing.
posted on 23/2/13
comment by shortlightandugly. "You can't put fo... (U13938)
posted 26 minutes ago
To be fair, TOOR, Malcolm X probably has a wider global appeal than you.
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Obviously but some people argue the person and not the comment.
posted on 23/2/13
Toor, that's because malcolm X managed to say it without sounding like he was calling them sheep.
Don't get me wrong, I like you Toor, nothing you say annoys me, or get's my back up, in fact, I prefer what you've got to say than most of the twaddle that's posted, for one thing, I know whatever you've posted, it's what YOU think.