The England football bid and why I fucking hate newspapers.

[Kev]

So now Treisman has had to resign and our World Cup bid is possibly scuppered.

But why is nobody blaming the newspapers for this?

I mean this guy has a private conversation with a former aide, who secretly records it then takes it to the newspaper and THEY report it, to cash in on a story and fuck up our bid chances.

Seriously fuck them! Grrrrrr!

[HattonTheHammer]

No more than a dent in the track

The same people that uncovered this story are now claiming its all but ended our hopes of getting the world cup


Sensationalism my good man, come voting time FIFA will be looking out for much more important things than what happened to a senior FA member a few years ago

[Kev]

No more than a dent in the track

The same people that uncovered this story are now claiming its all but ended our hopes of getting the world cup


Sensationalism my good man, come voting time FIFA will be looking out for much more important things than what happened to a senior FA member a few years ago

haha I know, so much for patriotism amongst our newspapers.

[ono]

The do it all the time. They undercover stories about our star players just before the world cup and then wonder why we don't get past the quarter finals. This is no different.

[Gandalf]

What did he do exactly? Just made some allegations that some countries might have bribed referees?

I don't see the big deal in this one. I'm convinced that the Koreans had referees in their pockets in the 2002 World Cup.

[AdamGB]

The media are a bunch of cunts... they are partly responsible for the scope of the recession "PANIC RE SCION! DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY WITHDRAW EVERYTHING FROM THE BANKS! IT'S GOING TO BE THE WORST FINANCIAL DISASTER EVER! ANARCHY LOOMS!"

Scared half of the fucking country into doing just that and made sure that Northern Rock folded as catastrophically as possible. Every bastard is too scared to put money back into the economy and a lot of that is down to these twats.

over the following months all we here though is how it's all Gordon Brown's fault. Bunch of fucking scare mongers.

[Gandalf]

The media are a bunch of cunts... they are partly responsible for the scope of the recession "PANIC RE SCION! DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY WITHDRAW EVERYTHING FROM THE BANKS! IT'S GOING TO BE THE WORST FINANCIAL DISASTER EVER! ANARCHY LOOMS!"

Scared half of the fucking country into doing just that and made sure that Northern Rock folded as catastrophically as possible. Every bastard is too scared to put money back into the economy and a lot of that is down to these twats.

over the following months all we here though is how it's all Gordon Brown's fault. Bunch of fucking scare mongers.

Well, to be fair Brown was chancellor and prime minister during a period in which the financial markets continued to be deregulated and who followed the whims of the financial players. And wasn't he the very man that promised that "the days of boom and bust were over"?. Too damn right that Brown should take his share of the responsibility for all that. All these austerity measure are not going to be pretty and as ever the working man pays for something he never did. The media sucks, but in this instance they were right to attack him. He shouldn't have bailed out the banks either, I see they are back to giving themselves bonuses on a par with that prior to the crash whilst the rest of the economy continues to suffer, not from media scares, but the downright irresponsibility of absolving a huge sector from any worries about having any checks or balances placed upon them.

I know it's not really related to this thread, but Brown and the banks are all a bunch of class A cunts. They should all be in jail for what THEY did.

[Kev]

The media are a bunch of cunts... they are partly responsible for the scope of the recession "PANIC RE SCION! DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY WITHDRAW EVERYTHING FROM THE BANKS! IT'S GOING TO BE THE WORST FINANCIAL DISASTER EVER! ANARCHY LOOMS!"

Scared half of the fucking country into doing just that and made sure that Northern Rock folded as catastrophically as possible. Every bastard is too scared to put money back into the economy and a lot of that is down to these twats.

over the following months all we here though is how it's all Gordon Brown's fault. Bunch of fucking scare mongers.

Yeah I agree 100% Adam. All they do is build people up so they can then tear them down and cash in on the scandalous stories that THEY create.

I don't even see how posing as fake investors, or fake sheik's, secretyl recording conversations etc is even legal. They are not the CIA or MI5 yet are not only allowed to impersonate other people, phone tap, follow people etc but can then report and publish their findings.

To me it's unbelievable. I think going undercover and trying to get John Higgins to take bribes is a criminal offence too. If it's a crime to prentend to accept a bribe, surely it's an even worse crime to pretend to offer it?

If I was in control of policing newspapers I would bring them to account for any news stories they uncovered through deceptive means.

So the Calzaghe cocaine scandal, imprison that douche who exposed him for impersonating somebody else.
The whistle blowers on the Treisman scandal, imprison them illegal phonetapping and for subservise antipatriotec publications.

The world would be so much better if these great scandals and expose's weren't made all the time. Fuck the media, the tabloid press are the worst thing about the world in my opinion and probably do more to damage the world than Albanian prostitute smuggling gangs, drug deals, people traffickers and even terrorists.

Get rid of them and there would be no more global recession as, like you say they wouldn't be there to report and create blind panic.

I say again, fuck them all. Cunts.