Fark Rebecca Wilson - Soccer in a sad, sad state

[Arabmariner]

Simon Hill didnt miss her did he

lol

"smell the fear"

 

[FFC Mariner]

I think slater called "the journalist" misinformed. Hill replied along the lines that he was being too kind.

 

[Paolo]

Who the f**ks Rebecca Wilson?
Who the f**ks Rebecca Wilson?
Who the f**ks Rebecca Wilson?
And the A league marches on on on

(feels unclean at singing a Manure chant but what the hell)

think of it as a city chant 'who the fark are man utd'...that or pretend you are supporting the biggest club in the world....glory glory tottenham hotspur

 

[Jorome Alexander Bennett]

She is obviously slow, in many ways. An agenda? Most certainly.

So, the blame must fall with the editor.

Just give it fifteen years and these backward views will be dead, with or without hosting WC.

The return of the titanic bandwagon come South Africa will surely make these semi-retarded writers understand, or at least their editors.

 

[Redline]

She is obviously slow, in many ways. An agenda? Most certainly.

So, the blame must fall with the editor.

Just give it fifteen years and these backward views will be dead, with or without hosting WC.

The return of the titanic bandwagon come South Africa will surely make these semi-retarded writers understand, or at least their editors.

I doubt it.

 

[Jorome Alexander Bennett]

David Koch was wearing the strip and going mental for the National Team last WC. In that climate Wilson can't write her unfounded and erroneous rubbish. Editors wouldn't allow it.

 

[Redline]

Kochie cracks me up when gets all excited.

 

[Paolo]

Add that to the fact that i am starting my own media company and plan to own the lions share of all media outlets within the next 15 years.....watch this space

 

[From the dug out]

She talks about the $45 million as wasted money and that she cannot see how it is justified!

As stated on SBS last night their are $4.5 BILLION reasons why Australia should embrace this bid.....for the better of our countries economy.

If they (RL) had any brains, they would also embrace this proposal, as this would also help their game be sold to many countries that have never seen or heard of (RL) before! The fact that people from all over the world would be here means that they would experience all of our Aussie lifestyles and pastimes.

Take your blinkers off Rebecca, it has a bigger audience than the Olympics FFS.

Think of the people that can play your pokies!

 

[Jorome Alexander Bennett]

Olympics is a joke!
There isn't even a Maori team. That's almsot racist.

 

[brett]

She is obviously slow, in many ways. An agenda? Most certainly.

So, the blame must fall with the editor.

Just give it fifteen years and these backward views will be dead, with or without hosting WC.

The return of the titanic bandwagon come South Africa will surely make these semi-retarded writers understand, or at least their editors.

Not the editor's fault - it's their readers. There are 10s of thousands of Tele readers who lap up this stuff. They are ignorant and one-eyed, veering away from the Rugby League pages only occasionally for articles like Wilson's, just to check up on that old Soccer to confirm for themselves that the buzz around Soccer is indeed only fleeting, and that the world game is indeed in a sorry state of health. The Tele readers that would get pissed off enough by this sort of thing to stop buying the paper are in the absolute minimum.

Expect the coverage to change for the better (if only slightly) when a western sydney A-League side comes in. That's the Tele's readership heartland. If the westies take to the new A-League side, the paper could be forced to embrace it.

It's about pure readers over truth or balance, now more than ever.

 

[clarence]

Ultimately though, Brett, the editor is the one deciding who gets the column space. Letting her write a thinly veiled opinion piece is gutter politics. (Kinda like running a political advert where anything BUT the political party being promoted gets mentioned.)

It is kinda stupid having one arm of the News Limited empire crap on the game, while at the same time, another part of the empire is paying a very sizable sum of money - and getting plaudits from Lowy - for exclusive Pay TV rights to A-League games.

I'm not saying Football shouldn't be immune from public scrutiny, far from that, the pressure should always be on our administration to be on their game.

But allowing Wilson let fly with emotive uneducated swipes at the game is only a cheap short term shot for some later long term isolation.

I can't see Buckley wanting to have to talk to any Terrorgraph people and if he wanted to play hard ball, the likes of Smithies and whoever else gets accreditation to FFA matches could be denied . Now that could be viewed as the FFA kicking themselves in the nuts, but if they align themselves with the SMH and say fark off to the Terrorgraph, they could at least get some better coverage of the A-League and other matters with the FFA better reported.

Surely the Terrorgraph wants to march with the times rather than be left behind? How embarrassing would it be for the Terrorgraph if the Socceroos qualified for the WC2010, and no one from the newspaper arm of News Limited got accredited from Australia (which means Rupert would have to syndicate the stories from his other papers and deny the local journos work)?

For the record, I haven't bought a Terrorgraph since Wilson's first shit swipe at Football, so they are losing $5 a week from me already.

I can understand their reluctance to embrace the opposition (in their eyes), but the management of that kitty litter should be looking at 5 - 10 years from now and the impact this bias is costing them.

 

[brett]

The various News Ltd arms are quite isolated operationally, more so than people think. One masthead's opinion columns are in no way influenced by the company's stake in pay TV or whatever.

Don't read into it any more than what I said: it's a paper pandering to the majority of its readers, who like to stick the boot into poor old soccer, to consolidate its audience. It's that, and it's tabloid journalism: for every football fan that boycotts the Tele, there'll probably be two that keep buying it to see what is said about their code next time, even if they won't like it or agree with it. When you're the most-read rag in town, you have that influence. You set the agenda to an extent.

Now I'm not saying I like it, and I'm not saying it's a good long-term strategy. But if you have been following the media, you'll know that 'newspapers' and 'long-term strategy' aren't finding themselves in the same sentence that often at the moment. There is a short-term strategy for survival, through cost-cutting and hoping for the best.

The new editor, Garry Linnell, was formerly with Channel 9 who don't give football much of a run, but we don't know whether he has even met Rebecca Wilson, let alone told her to produce a hatchet job. But effectively Linnell and his sports editor get judged on readership results, and if the editorials they choose to commission aren't in touch with the majority of their readership, the circulation will drop. These guys get paid the big bucks to be in touch with their audience.

As for the News Ltd black-out scenario, the media companies very much have the power in that relationship. FFA still needs them a lot more than News needs football. And even so, blocking out journalists is compromising press freedom, which is not cool. You can't go around denying reporters the right to cover newsworthy events. Cricket Australia is trying to do that at the moment for a whole raft of other reasons, but you just can't go down that path.

Yes, there are dramatic actions FFA could take. But why bother? Wilson has penned a couple of forgettable, poorly-written, poorly-researched columns that are infuriating to football fans, pleasing to a decreasing number of soccer-hating codgers, and irrelevant to most. We know this sort of press is on the decrease and the type of writers and readers who go for it are drifting into obscurity as our game grows. It's not nice, but it's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. I think we should have a giggle and pay it no more attention.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Rebecca Wilson and her ilk are the sporting equivalent of people who remained convinced that the earth was flat long after it was proven that it isnt.

Saw the back page today spunking on about the take over of some 2nd tier RL club (that doesnt even control the NRL side) like these buffoons had somehow solved the middle east crisis and the credit crunch in one go).

 

[brett]

Rebecca Wilson and her ilk are the sporting equivalent of people who remained convinced that the earth was flat long after it was proven that it isnt.

Saw the back page today spunking on about the take over of some 2nd tier RL club (that doesnt even control the NRL side) like these buffoons had somehow solved the middle east crisis and the credit crunch in one go).

Yep, and tucked about 8 pages in from the back was about 4.5 words about an Australian football club getting knocked out of a tournament that had them 3 games away from being the world's best team.

It doesn't take much to work out which event matters more, but the editor's job is to work out which matters more to the readers.