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Post by steviegas on Jan 5, 2018 12:22:45 GMT
I have noticed this for a long time but has everybody noticed how smug Ali Durden & David Garmston are on Points West it's clear they are City fans. Obviously not now but even when we have been successful there is little coverage of us and more often than not more attention is put on Swindon, Cheltenham, Yeovil and Forest Green as well. Is seems Points West are anti-rovers!
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Post by harrybuckle on Jan 5, 2018 12:33:08 GMT
same as BBC Radio Bristol since the 82ers started winning they are getting an unbalanced amount of coverage this season.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 12:33:16 GMT
Every football supporter says this about every media outlet. It's not the case. Move on.
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Post by bloogas on Jan 5, 2018 15:18:38 GMT
I doubt David Garmston is even a football fan. City are doing well,they got the bigger following. So they're news.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 5, 2018 16:22:05 GMT
There is def media bias and has been for years in favour of Sh*t.
All the build up to any festive event, the subtle jingles on radio bristolc*ty and put together of sports action rarely feature us. And if it does it feels like an after thought at the end.
I'm not complaining, just saying it how it appears to come across.
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Post by keygas on Jan 5, 2018 16:54:14 GMT
I doubt David Garmston is even a football fan. City are doing well,they got the bigger following. So they're news. I am pretty sure David Garmston dad is a rovers season ticket holder & I have seen David there myself on a couple of occasions.
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Post by pirate49 on Jan 5, 2018 18:14:00 GMT
I don't get these accusations of bias. City fans often complain about local media bias towards us! As bloogas says, City are near the top of the Championship and have just defeated Manchester United. As the top (ie highest placed) West Country team perhaps it's natural that they get more coverage. Geoff Twentyman tries very hard to hide his Rovers' leanings, Steve Yabsley has a soft spot for Rovers and wrote 'Turning On The Gas' (not a lot of people know that! ), Alex Lovell is a great friend of the Dunford family and read a moving self-penned poem at Geoff's funeral. In the Bristol Post both City and Rovers have allocated journalists. Now the actual quality of the coverage is another matter!!
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Post by PessimistGas on Jan 5, 2018 18:15:24 GMT
There is def media bias and has been for years in favour of Sh*t. All the build up to any festive event, the subtle jingles on radio bristolc*ty and put together of sports action rarely feature us. And if it does it feels like an after thought at the end. I'm not complaining, just saying it how it appears to come across. Appears to doesn't make it true. You're paranoid.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 5, 2018 18:28:25 GMT
There is def media bias and has been for years in favour of Sh*t. All the build up to any festive event, the subtle jingles on radio bristolc*ty and put together of sports action rarely feature us. And if it does it feels like an after thought at the end. I'm not complaining, just saying it how it appears to come across. Appears to doesn't make it true. You're paranoid. Haha! Stop complimenting me, you flirt.. Can't say exactly because tbh life is just too busy to be listening to radio bristolcity, or watching points west 24hours. So, to me it does appear, yes. All build ups of sporting weekends, we are hardly ever there on radio. It's subtle, but there. Really don't care, tbh. This has been going on years.....anyone whom can remember what we thought about Roger Malone kinda sums it up.
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Post by PessimistGas on Jan 5, 2018 18:37:18 GMT
Appears to doesn't make it true. You're paranoid. Haha! Stop complimenting me, you flirt.. Can't say exactly because tbh life is just too busy to be listening to radio bristolcity, or watching points west 24hours. So, to me it does appear, yes. All build ups of sporting weekends, we are hardly ever there on radio. It's subtle, but there. Really don't care, tbh. This has been going on years.....anyone whom can remember what we thought about Roger Malone kinda sums it up. Roger Malone is a different story....:-) Everyone hates that tw@t . The abuse Jet Pitman used to get wasn't justified.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 21:32:07 GMT
I'm sorry to say that the present reason the 1982 section of Bristol Sport are getting all the press and airtime is that while we are in the bottom half of the third division and not chasing cup-ties, they are challenging for playoff promotion to the first, premier division, and chasing premier division giants in a major cup. I disagree with the differential of coverage, but it seems clearly due to their relative success and positions right now, not to any conspiracy against us. BRFC should get its own house in order before we can complain too much about the BBC.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 5, 2018 21:46:49 GMT
Haha! Stop complimenting me, you flirt.. Can't say exactly because tbh life is just too busy to be listening to radio bristolcity, or watching points west 24hours. So, to me it does appear, yes. All build ups of sporting weekends, we are hardly ever there on radio. It's subtle, but there. Really don't care, tbh. This has been going on years.....anyone whom can remember what we thought about Roger Malone kinda sums it up. Roger Malone is a different story....:-) Everyone hates that tw@t . The abuse Jet Pitman used to get wasn't justified. Do you refer to Jay Emanuel Thomas and/or Brett Pitman?! What an ugly combination!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 22:07:14 GMT
I don't get these accusations of bias. City fans often complain about local media bias towards us! As bloogas says, City are near the top of the Championship and have just defeated Manchester United. As the top (ie highest placed) West Country team perhaps it's natural that they get more coverage. Geoff Twentyman tries very hard to hide his Rovers' leanings, Steve Yabsley has a soft spot for Rovers and wrote ' Turning On The Gas' (not a lot of people know that! ), Alex Lovell is a great friend of the Dunford family and read a moving self-penned poem at Geoff's funeral. In the Bristol Post both City and Rovers have allocated journalists. Now the actual quality of the coverage is another matter!! Well I must admit that is my favourite Rovers song and I never knew that, so thank you.
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Post by Angas on Jan 5, 2018 22:45:36 GMT
I'm sorry to say that the present reason the 1982 section of Bristol Sport are getting all the press and airtime is that while we are in the bottom half of the third division and not chasing cup-ties, they are challenging for playoff promotion to the first, premier division, and chasing premier division giants in a major cup. I disagree with the differential of coverage, but it seems clearly due to their relative success and positions right now, not to any conspiracy against us. BRFC should get its own house in order before we can complain too much about the BBC. Agreed. Plus, we got some coverage last night and apparently the majority on here turned it off after just a few minutes. No pleasing some folks it seems
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Post by Cosmic Pasty on Jan 6, 2018 2:49:51 GMT
I don't watch Points West, but I've noticed a City Bias on Radio Bristol. Or at least, we seem to get equal coverage when we're doing well and they're not, but City coverage goes through the roof when the positions are reversed. However, the silence from our club has been pretty much deafening most of the time since the Al Qadis took over, to the point where the Facebook and the forums are alive with fans just speculating and making stuff up, and the Bristol Post is trawling the web spinning 'news' from it all. With that and our recent 'move along, there's nothing to see here' form, I'm not too surprised that the media can't find much to say about us at the moment.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 6, 2018 5:45:40 GMT
Absolutely this ^^^^^^^^
Maybe we are masters of our own media destiny.
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Post by Rex on Jan 6, 2018 6:23:15 GMT
I don't get these accusations of bias. City fans often complain about local media bias towards us! As bloogas says, City are near the top of the Championship and have just defeated Manchester United. As the top (ie highest placed) West Country team perhaps it's natural that they get more coverage. Geoff Twentyman tries very hard to hide his Rovers' leanings, Steve Yabsley has a soft spot for Roversand wrote 'Turning On The Gas' (not a lot of people know that! ), Alex Lovell is a great friend of the Dunford family and read a moving self-penned poem at Geoff's funeral. In the Bristol Post both City and Rovers have allocated journalists. Now the actual quality of the coverage is another matter!! I was good mates with Steve at school (and he was even weirder back then) and his interest in football was pretty much zero as I recall, me and another of our group were at Eastville every week and I can't ever remember him even saying he had gone to a game or expressing an interest in a game, but writing songs was definitely his thing. Mind you, he's a Fishponds lad and back then if you didn't express a preference for Rovers you'd be in trouble!
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jan 6, 2018 10:52:06 GMT
I have noticed this for a long time but has everybody noticed how smug Ali Durden & David Garmston are on Points West it's clear they are City fans. Obviously not now but even when we have been successful there is little coverage of us and more often than not more attention is put on Swindon, Cheltenham, Yeovil and Forest Green as well. Is seems Points West are anti-rovers! Alex Lovell and David Garmston are closet gas. Alex was at GD funeral. I don’t agree they show bias but they do talk more about the higher up team is all. If you ever read or browse the other lots forum, they say they are biased but to us !
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Post by The Concept on Jan 10, 2018 20:32:39 GMT
Oh man, not this tripe again!
It reminds me of politics on the BBC: on social media I see an equal amount of left and right wing supporters accusing the BBC of showing favour to the other party. This tells me the BBC aren't politically biased.
Likewise, I see both Rovers and City supporters saying local media are biased to the other. Again that tells me they aren't.
Neither Points West, Radio Bristol, Evening Post, Western Daily Press, or Sunday Independent are biased in favour of one team. What we do have, though, is a good number of paranoid football fans.
p.s. David Garmston's father-in-law is David Foot. p.p.s. One of the cameramen on Points West is an ardent Rovers fan.
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Post by syg on Jan 10, 2018 20:59:31 GMT
I never considered the local media bias, until last night. They just need to do, what they need to for viewing figs/circulación and offending any group of fans wont help that. But the BBC bristol sport tweets before and after the match were ridiculous,like an excited 12 year old with no perspective. So much so that it annoyed the hell out of me and i tweeted back something really abusive. It never got like that when we were at chelse.
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