Stifler Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Is there an email address for Wendy Taylor? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Quadruple Face Palm after reading that piss take of a letter by Wendy Taylor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanSkÃrare Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Hopefully this will have the media turn on him and Pardew for real. That'll sway the last cliques of supporters as well and they'd be in for an almighty shitstorm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/10409369/Were-sports-reporters-Mr-Ashley-not-media-partners-and-were-worth-more-than-you-think.html The followig is from an article from Luke Edwards about this: "Ashley, though, is one of the Premier League chairmen who want to make newspapers pay to cover games. Thankfully, his calls have been rejected by the Premier League who realise they need newspaper coverage. It provides the widest exposure and gives the game its largest audience figures." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 She mentioned 300 supporters.... Why don't we just take a poll on here? I'd be curious to know the exact number who agree with Time 4 a Change based on the 2200ish members we have.... Dave, of the 2200, would probably 1/2 be still around as active members of this board? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/10409369/Were-sports-reporters-Mr-Ashley-not-media-partners-and-were-worth-more-than-you-think.html The followig is from an article from Luke Edwards about this: "Ashley, though, is one of the Premier League chairmen who want to make newspapers pay to cover games. Thankfully, his calls have been rejected by the Premier League who realise they need newspaper coverage. It provides the widest exposure and gives the game its largest audience figures." Ashley is a nutjob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Jonathan Wilson's view. http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/sport-comment/newcastle-uniteds-mike-ashley-has-pressed-the-wrong-buttons Newcastle United’s Mike Ashley has pressed the wrong buttons Jonathan Wilson October 28, 2013 Updated: October 28, 2013 16:14:00 The relationship between England’s regional reporters and the clubs they cover is never simple. There must always be compromise. The club provides regular access and a drip of stories and, in return, the newspapers keep things relatively civil. For local papers that remain, even in the days of blogs, the prime conduit between a club and its fans, that relationship is even more delicate. A national paper can fill its sports pages with other clubs; the Newcastle Journal has to talk about Newcastle United. The paper needs the club, but the club also needs the paper as a way of explaining itself through a channel that is not so obviously subjective as the club website. Which is what makes the recent behaviour of Mike Ashley, the Newcastle United owner, so baffling. Last season it banned the Telegraph, a national paper, from matches and news conferences for a story that spoke of a rift between the French players and the others in the dressing-room. Most shrugged, thought the club had overreacted and moved on. But it turns out that was just the beginning. On Sunday, after Newcastle’s defeat to Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, the reporter from the Journal, the main local morning paper, tried to ask Alan Pardew, the Newcastle manager, a question in the post-match news conference. The press officer intervened to prevent him doing so. The man from the Chronicle, the main evening paper, then tried and was also rebuffed. It subsequently turned out the Sunday Sun, the main local Sunday paper (which has nothing to do with the Sun on Sunday, a national), had also been banned from Newcastle home matches and press activities. All three had decided not to reveal the ban so as not to disrupt preparations for the derby, which says much for their sense of decorum. Their crime? They had reported on a march organised by the Time 4 Change group that was attended by hundreds of fans protesting against, inter alia, the appointment of Joe Kinnear as director of football, the lack of a major signing in the summer and having Wonga, a payday loans company whose ethical approach has been questioned, as a club sponsor. This happened. It is not an unnamed player sounding off or an extrapolation from a couple of rumours. Many thousands saw it. Reporters reported on it and for doing so they are now being prevented from doing their jobs. But this is not just Ashley acting like a petty dictator and infringing on the basic freedom of the press: it is also a spectacularly stupid move. The pressure on Pardew is certain to increase after he became the first Newcastle manager in almost half a century to lose successive league derbies, and it is safe to assume the local papers will do little to calm angry fans. Negative titbits those journalists may previously have suppressed will be given free rein: the papers have nothing to lose in terms of their relationship with the club and a crisis will sell copies. Ashley’s posturing means it is now in their interests to destabilise the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 NCJ rely heavily on Newcastle United stories to keep interest in their papers and to keep themselves afloat. Seeing as they won't have access to any NUFC sources, their choice will be to either meaningful cease coverage entirely and lose readership, or go on the offensive and become the flag-bearer for the discgruntled. First and foremost, they have to fill the pages. Daft of the club not to think this through. Edit: The Journal beat me to it in the post above.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 The fat, prontonising cunt is upset. Guess we can expect him to lash out with another stupid decision soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 They have to go on the offesnive...Make Ashley unhappy. Do some digging. They can still comment on games...and AShley cant stop them at away games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Naughty Newspaper,No more players for Naughty City. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-421 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Have to admit, I was one who thought any pre-match protests were a waste of time, given the lack of effect similar things have had in the past. However, the fact he has taken this action against local press simply for reporting the event, shows he's 'Rattled, Marra'... and I hope there is now another protest, with just as much (or more) publicity. Maybe, just maybe, its started getting to him? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/10409369/Were-sports-reporters-Mr-Ashley-not-media-partners-and-were-worth-more-than-you-think.html The followig is from an article from Luke Edwards about this: "Ashley, though, is one of the Premier League chairmen who want to make newspapers pay to cover games. Thankfully, his calls have been rejected by the Premier League who realise they need newspaper coverage. It provides the widest exposure and gives the game its largest audience figures." Do they? They have world wide exposure as it is without the Newspapers and people won't suddenly forget that the Premier League exists without the mighty newspapers reminding us they exist. Frankly I'd say its rather the other way around Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Newspapers PAYING clubs to report on things? What next? The government should make this a fat stream of revenue charging journalist to report any politics -- and since we pay for the gov't, that's good money for all of us! Ashley, the business genius. F--k the press. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I still find myself remarkably unconcerned about this and more annoyed that the media industry is more offended by the very prospect of being banned than any of the actual issues with the club. It's not who it is, it's the childish reaction to some news that's at question here. my point is though all this coverage none of it is discussing the merits and otherwise of Mike Ashleys Newcastle, theres no analysis about what he is doing appointing JFK with the sports direct sponsorship etc theres not even much discussion about the game yesterday or how we could lose that game, instead its all people offended by the idea of any newspaper being banned and meaningless platitudes about freedom of the press blah blah blah. Frankly were it not a total fluke I'd call it genius misdirection by the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Well Ashley has thrown down a Gauntlet to them then. They can either comply with him, keep quiet for a bit, kiss his hoop and be allowed back in to be his Bitches in Future. Or, they can stand up for the City against Ashley and mount a campaign that will gather the support of all of the disillusioned fans. An approach that could see increased sales? Wasnt the Chronicle quite active During the Magpie groups Take over in the late 80s? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Meanwhile Ashley makes nufc look like shit again. the man is a fckin moron. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Icke - Son of God Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Well Ashley has thrown down a Gauntlet to them then. They can either comply with him, keep quiet for a bit, kiss his hoop and be allowed back in to be his Bitches in Future. Or, they can stand up for the City against this Tyrant and mount a campaign that will gather the support of all of the disillusioned fans. An approach that could see increased sales? Wasnt the Chronicle quite active During the Magpie groups Take over in the late 80s? The fact they've published the letter etc. suggests they're up for the fight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 The local rags will maintain their readership, if they start asking the right questions and also become a 'flag bearer' (as stated above) for the anti-Ashley campaign. They did it in 1988 and whilst it took a year or two and for the club to tumble out of the First Division - it worked. It can happen again, but the apathetic have to get off their arses and get involved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 That letter is outrageous. Absolute wankers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weezertron Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 This is the revolution Brand was talking about. I hope they put the boot in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Ironically Ashley has handed the supporters the biggest boost to their cause they could have hoped for. The local rags are the ones who can really stoke the fire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Ironically Ashley has handed the supporters the biggest boost to their cause they could have hoped for. The local rags are the ones who can really stoke the fire. or it could just be for a few weeks nothing happens status quo resumes. And forgive me for not pinning hopes of ousting ashley on an organization that willingly employs lee ryder as their chief nufc reporter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 If people really don't think protests or marches won't do anything after this then there's really no hope. It's gotten a reaction out of them, ride that wave as long as possible and see if you can get more. It's most likely not going to drive Ashley out, but why not at least try? If a few hundred people can cause local papers to get banned, maybe a few thousand can do more. There's a real chance here, I'll be really disappointed if we don't at least try and take it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 If people really don't think protests or marches won't do anything after this then there's really no hope. It's gotten a reaction out of them, ride that wave as long as possible and see if you can get more. It's most likely not going to drive Ashley out, but why not at least try? If a few hundred people can cause local papers to get banned, maybe a few thousand can do more. There's a real chance here, I'll be really disappointed if we don't at least try and take it. the only thing that could have chance of affecting him is a complete 100% boycott of St James which being realistic is never going to happen. And frankly I'm not sure even that would have any affect not with the huge premier league cash on offer it dilutes the impact of gates on the income and the more likely impact would simply be further costs cuts and he waiting until he finds someone to meet his asking price and not budging an inch til then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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