Media and punditry

[HanoiVillan]

2 hours ago, mikeyp102 said:

People are calling this racist as apparently Barkley has African heritage. 

Not sure it was intended that way myself 

I definitely don't think it was intended to be racist. I doubt many people knew that Barkley has African heritage - I know I certainly didn't. I think claiming it's racist is a bit of a reach, but it has to be said that if you write about people in the most derogatory way possible then you open yourself to the possibility that what you've said may be offensive on more levels than the one intended. 

It was just a really thick, moronic article written by an absolute cretin who just can't help slurring the city of Liverpool. What I found most noteworthy about it was that the Sun decided to run it. 

Edited April 14, 2017 by HanoiVillan

[villa4europe]

He's been suspended but at somewhere like the sun that article must have been read by 2-5 people before going to print, absolutely ridiculous article that there's absolutely no need for, it's a completely personal attack based on nothing 

[Chindie]

Mackenzie is the kind of person you could happily see strung by the neck from a lampost by manner of piano wire.

It's no surprise the Sun remains happy to print his bile and associate with him.

[a m ole]

absolute scum.

[PaulC]

5 hours ago, mikeyp102 said:

People are calling this racist as apparently Barkley has African heritage. 

Not sure it was intended that way myself 

I didn't know he had African heritage and  I doubt whether MacKenzie did either. having said that it was out of order what he wrote.

[chappy]

8 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

 

However, 23-year-old Mr Barkley will have learned a painful lesson. He is too rich and too famous to be spending his time in local hangouts where most of the customers have only just broken through the £7.50-an-hour barrier.'

Everything else aside, this shows he hasn't done any research (surprise surprise). It's a nice bar where it happened which rarely has any trouble at all, not the kind of backstreet boozer he is insinuating. I do realise that this isn't the most scandalous thing about the article btw!

[Dr_Pangloss]

I agree with the above, very difficult to tell that Barkley is in fact 'mixed race', so I don't think there were any racist intention behind the piece, but it was nevertheless an utterly disgrace piece of 'journalism'. The man is an absolute scumbag of the highest order.

[colhint]

I dunno maybe if your'e a journalist you could just google him first before you go to print. Just to check your bosses don't get into a libel case. Just a thought.

[theboyangel]

Regardless of the racial connotations I cannot fathom what the point and necessity of the piece was.

a pointless diatribe that was more akin with a football forum  post than a 'national newspaper' article. 

 

[Dr_Pangloss]

15 minutes ago, colhint said:

I dunno maybe if your'e a journalist you could just google him first before you go to print. Just to check your bosses don't get into a libel case. Just a thought.

'Research' and 'Kelvin Mackenzie' do not belong in the same sentence I'm afraid. 

[Mozzavfc]

Everton have banned the Sun after the article

Can't believe they allowed it in the 1st place 

[Zatman]

that "newspaper" writing an article about anything regarding the city of Liverpool was never going to end well

 

[Davkaus]

I'd never buy the Scum and think pretty poorly of anyone who buys it...But am I the only person that thinks the police investigating whether this Barkley outrage constitutes a race hate crime is a ludicrous waste of police time?

Edit: I should probably read earlier posts before chiming in on well-trodden ground  

Edited April 15, 2017 by Davkaus

[villa4europe]

I don't buy it but I will have a flick through one in the canteen at work every now and then, I actually feel myself getting stupider when I read it, it's utter garbage 

[TrentVilla]

The is a chap called Phil Williams presenting 606 this evening who is a self confessed Villa fan.

So far he has taken two pops at Coventry inviting their fans to call in and have a cry.

[maqroll]

I'm not sure how the Sun let the Kelvin Mackenzie article be published, he managed to insult almost everybody with that drivel. I think more clubs should join the Merseyside clubs in boycotting the Sun.

Edited April 22, 2017 by maqroll

[a m ole]

"The Sun would like to take this opportunity to apologise personally to Ross Barkley."

In a printed retraction 

[blandy]

17 minutes ago, a m ole said:

"The Sun would like to take this opportunity to apologise personally to Ross Barkley."

In a printed retraction 

Not only is it not "personally", it's not an apology. I'd "like to take the opportunity" to win the lottery. The sun is also lying when they say they didn't know his heritage. They've previously published an article covering his eligibility to play for Nigeria because of it.

[striker]

This works against the adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity and from a man several years ago who in his column alikened himself (looks wise) to Paul Newman. 

[Zatman]

Jeff Stelling using his media profile to get the Hartlepool manager sacked. Absolute disgraceful