Liverpool Players & The 'Newspaper' That Shall Not Be Named

[meredithmathieson]

On the Sky Sports web page, they are quoting Pepe Reina having a go at Robben over his theatricals at Stamford Bridge.

 

They also write his quotes as having been told by Reina to The S*n.

 

Now, is it the case that Reina has passed his quotes to all and sundry, and that Sky have for whatever reason just chosen to quote that newspaper as their source, or has Reina indeed only spoken to that rag?

 

If it is the latter, do the club not at the very least have a word with players about local sensitivities?

 

(Apologies for those expecting one of those 'clicky' links, but I have turned 40 and all this hi-tec computer nonsense is beyond me. I've tried writing in 'click', but sadly nothing happens!)

[Chili Palmer]

On the Sky Sports web page, they are quoting Pepe Reina having a go at Robben over his theatricals at Stamford Bridge.

 

They also write his quotes as having been told by Reina to The S*n.

 

Now, is it the case that Reina has passed his quotes to all and sundry, and that Sky have for whatever reason just chosen to quote that newspaper as their source, or has Reina indeed only spoken to that rag?

 

If it is the latter, do the club not at the very least have a word with players about local sensitivities?

 

(Apologies for those expecting one of those 'clicky' links, but I have turned 40 and all this hi-tec computer nonsense is beyond me. I've tried writing in 'click', but sadly nothing happens!)

 

Attributing the quotes to the s*n means nothing, either they took them from another piece or Pepe said them in an open press conference.

[Guest L4 Lad]

there was something about gerrard being quoted by that rag before the tns game. it was probably in a press conference and a few papers asked questions and that rag was quoted.

[meredithmathieson]

Fair enough, is it because they are all under the News International umbrella that Sky quotes that rag then?

[Leo No.8]

On the Sky Sports web page, they are quoting Pepe Reina having a go at Robben over his theatricals at Stamford Bridge.

 

They also write his quotes as having been told by Reina to The S*n.

 

Now, is it the case that Reina has passed his quotes to all and sundry, and that Sky have for whatever reason just chosen to quote that newspaper as their source, or has Reina indeed only spoken to that rag?

 

If it is the latter, do the club not at the very least have a word with players about local sensitivities?

 

(Apologies for those expecting one of those 'clicky' links, but I have turned 40 and all this hi-tec computer nonsense is beyond me. I've tried writing in 'click', but sadly nothing happens!)

 

This comes up a lot mate, even people like Fowler have had 'he told The Sun' after their quotes.

 

He won't have been speaking exclusively to that rag. They give comments to the general press, and if a writer from The S*n happens to be there, he attributes the quotes as having been directly to them...

[Lee W]

Fair enough, is it because they are all under the News International umbrella that Sky quotes that rag then?

 

Nah - the BBC site are always doing it aswell.

[Kahnee]

It's how the BBC and Sky attribute the source for their story, without actually saying they were too lazy to write it themselves

[Earl Hafler]

Try 8 million

 

Really ?!

[Gerry]

8 million read it. 3 million buy it.

 

In case you wondered what the discrepancy was.

[Bald Devil]

Scum sports writers are always re-hashing quotes from programme notes and the Echo and claiming them as their own exclusives. The otherwise s**** football365's mediawatch page is always exposing them. But when I contacted the Press Complaints Commission about the scum repeatedly 'publishing deliberately misleading information' I was told I had to send them a paper copy even though the articles were available online, and the d****eads must have archives of every newspaper themselves. Obviously me buying the piece of s*** is out of the question, so what do you do?

[XabisBadFoot]

Scum sports writers are always re-hashing quotes from programme notes and the Echo and claiming them as their own exclusives. The otherwise s**** football365's mediawatch page is always exposing them. But when I contacted the Press Complaints Commission about the scum repeatedly 'publishing deliberately misleading information' I was told I had to send them a paper copy even though the articles were available online, and the d****eads must have archives of every newspaper themselves. Obviously me buying the piece of s*** is out of the question, so what do you do?

 

Nick one off a tramp and give him a broadsheet to keep warm with instead.

 

[R A Softlad]

It's how the BBC and Sky attribute the source for their story, without actually saying they were too lazy to write it themselves

 

Is correct and more often than not the interview is with the Official site...

[wacko]

I'm surprised their journalists can read well enough to find the entrance to the press conference - the thick sh*tes..!

Sad thing is, tabloid journalists in the main are incredibly intelligent people. The articles are very cleverly written. Whenever I pick up a tabloid, it scares me how cunningly the articles are written to shock/scare/appal/outrage the less cynical reader.