BoysInBlue
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These people writing these articles are greatly influenced by who they personally support. They're all either Mancs, Kopites or London club fans.
Look at the Echo and how often their Red correspondents leave to go on to the nationals and compare it to the Blue correspondents:
Tony Barrett - Times
Chris Bascombe - Murdoch media, now Telegraph.
Dom King - Daily Mail
James Pearce - current one, but from the South & will almost surely move on to the Nationals at some point.
Look at the EFC correspondents and where they are/ended up. They rarely if at all reach the Nationals:
Ken Rogers - Retired, wrote EFC books.
Dave Prentice - promoted within the Echo.
Scott McLeod - took an inhouse job with EFC.
Gregg OKeeffe - promoted within the Echo.
Phil Kirkbride - current one, Scouser.
The point is, the people with Red leanings end up in the National press, whilst the Blue journos don't and remain locally. Thus, national agendas regarding Everton are never challenged.
The only Blue journos in the Nationals I can think of are Paul Joyce at the Express (formerly of the Daily Post) and Andy Hunter of the Guardian (again formerly of the Daily Post). Neither of these two engage in the rumour spreadspreading.
Look at the Echo and how often their Red correspondents leave to go on to the nationals and compare it to the Blue correspondents:
Tony Barrett - Times
Chris Bascombe - Murdoch media, now Telegraph.
Dom King - Daily Mail
James Pearce - current one, but from the South & will almost surely move on to the Nationals at some point.
Look at the EFC correspondents and where they are/ended up. They rarely if at all reach the Nationals:
Ken Rogers - Retired, wrote EFC books.
Dave Prentice - promoted within the Echo.
Scott McLeod - took an inhouse job with EFC.
Gregg OKeeffe - promoted within the Echo.
Phil Kirkbride - current one, Scouser.
The point is, the people with Red leanings end up in the National press, whilst the Blue journos don't and remain locally. Thus, national agendas regarding Everton are never challenged.
The only Blue journos in the Nationals I can think of are Paul Joyce at the Express (formerly of the Daily Post) and Andy Hunter of the Guardian (again formerly of the Daily Post). Neither of these two engage in the rumour spreadspreading.
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