Echo editor pledges content review following complaints from Everton fans

Probably very easy for the Echo to focus on the big spenders but the BBC, with about 25 to 30% of its total Premier League coverage focussed on Liverpool which always strikes me as strange? Where is their interest to be promoting Liverpool FC at the expense of the other 17 Premier League clubs. . . . .

I suppose something similar has happened with the sports coverage as the BBC outsources much of its content and therefore private companies will have to obey their paymasters who could be major sponsors of Football Clubs and of course it all helps with the UKÂ’s balance of payments if overseas supporters buy merchandise or it helps to attract tourists to the UK.

Also if you look at the link I posted on "A Mission of Disengagement...." You can see in which direction modern media is going.

One of the first shops you come to is full of their shit merchandise at the front, with our stuff tucked away in the corner.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/insidethebbc/whatwedo/commercialbusiness

They have advertising on the website in foreign countries which explains why they would concentrate on Liverpool.

Â’Profits are then returned to the BBC in order to keep the licence fee as low as possible.Â’ My ex-flatmate worked for BBC World Wide and says only 10% of profits are returned to the BBC as we know it. The rest is very much spent in all the fabulous ways in which the private sector just love!

I can't remember who said it but the twat on the radio said, "Good news coming from Oxford, Oxford are leading one-nil." Media bias, you bet.

Where was his article about Everton last winter when we were in the midst of a horrific run of form and shocking fall from grace from the previous season?!

Unfortunately as long as Liverpool have so many Â’fansÂ’ in the south who have never been to the city but who make lots of noise, the BBC will continue to give them too much airtime.

"Andy Burnham is a working class lad who lives in Manchester and goes to watch football in Liverpool and is, therefore, not a member of the Westminster elite."

Now, who would any neutral reader assume Burnham supports?

Shameful.

A large proportion of the "experts" the BBC have, on any of there football shows, thereÂ’s almost always an ex-LFC player. Newspapers are worse.

I wonÂ’t buy a Daily Mirror, as the Sports pages are like an issue of the Kop magazine and King Bloody Kenny has is article, Brian Reade writes regularly about them... Dave Maddocks must be married to one of them!

When we bought Lukaku for a massive fee for us, the headlines were nothing to scream about us almost doubling our record transfer – just a snidey remark about Lukaku supposedly leaving Chelsea under a cloud. When LFC got James Milner, the "wow" Mirror went into ecstasy. We get Cleverley... nowt!

I turned to the Independent and that has Ian Herbert, the IndependentÂ’s leading footy man, drooling all over them.

The Mail... Jamie Carragher; Sky... Jamie Carragher – and on it goes. Even if the Mail isn’t writing about LFC then a fat git like Samuels writes a massive big headlined article about how we cheated our way to 5th by using the loan system! So I won’t buy that rag either.

I think there is more than just the success that LFC enjoyed, I think a lot of the National; Press treat LFC as some kind of shrine. and they mustnÂ’t do or say anything other than in adoration.

IÂ’ve got a particular sense of injustice about the so called Liverpool Echo (whereÂ’s it printed... Salford or somewhere out in the sticks). I know we have a Liverpool office but that was a sad day when it moved the printing up there.

I only have to look at the EchoÂ’s front page and itÂ’s another just like the Kop magazine. Bloody big red banner (with a tiny blue stripe) on it.

I can remember when we drew at Anfield a couple of years back how the correspondent recapped the match from the LFC perspective. Utterly denigrating to our club and our fans; and how the Echo allowed that bitter load of bile to be printed says it all. So I wonÂ’t buy that either. I get the Beano, same as the Echo but the gags are intended.

Trouble is, one poster on here was saying how LFC have more fans nationally "and locally" – I don’t think that’s right at all. We have as many fans, or more, locally but a lot now won’t bother buying the Echo because of the bias. Even when it is reporting about Everton. I don’t see them asking the questions or commenting on the issues that I want to see.

Kings Dock, Destination Kirkby, Kenwright's sad search 24/7 for "investment", the shenanigans over "Fortress Sports Fund"... and this board's antics about our commercial and football strategy.

Maybe the reporters canÂ’t ask the questions, but they could certainly report how a growing proportion of the fans are getting more and more angry over the inertia in our club.

Everton FC fans hurting at a decline in fortunes

Sounds great, yeah? ... But, despite the headline, itÂ’s one of those horrible Â’balancedÂ’ pieces that manages to mention the Red twats more than it does Everton, ending with this biting indictment:

"In truth both our big two should probably have done a bit better than they have over the past two decades..."

ThatÂ’s it. Pathetic.