The Everton Board Thread

[canuckblue]

Plenty of blame to be shared by the club hierarchy, the PR department and the journalists who reported it solely based on a "club source." Using the anonymous source is a copout -- in my years in the business, many stories using that alone as the basis for the report would have been spiked before it saw the light of day or the reporter would have been told to "take another run at this," with the implied suggestion of getting balance. Of course, that was back when journalists actually took the time to get both sides of the story to allow the reader to make up his or her own mind. Today, sadly, they simply parrot what the club tells them in order to stay in the club's good graces.
I sincerely doubt any mainstream journalist immediately went to the police to inquire if any such incident had been reported. It was only after the much deserved fan backlash that they did what they should have done in the first place. It's just another example of why more and more people are losing their trust in mainstream media -- the sad part is that means people aren't getting accurate information, only what they hear or read in their own social media echo chambers.
The only people who have come out with any credit in this debacle are the fans who have peacefully protested and pointed out the very likely probability that the headlock incident was pure fiction. The board are dead to me.

 

[Lee Smith]

Journalism died when the Internet came to be instead its

Look at x model showing X

Or Who buying X

It’s all click bait crap padded out with no facts

Scroobius Pip said it best. Well worth a full listen through, very apt for what’s happened these last few days

 

[Efcjake]

Just listened to the echo pre match podcast and they've wheeled out Joe Thomas to sing from the same hymn sheet O'Keefe was.

"We took the club officials at their word"

" Very disappointed in the club. Can't make them answer questions"


"It's been a hard week for me"

Ffs lads just own up to the fact that you pushed a very disparaging headline with nothing more than the word of Dave Prentice.

Stop taking the abuse for the club and give it back to them.

Name the source who has just made you embarass yourself professionally in national media.

Grow a bloody back bone.

 

[Efcjake]

what i miss mate? is the red rag now backtracking?

They basically did as much to say "We were lied to buy the club/Prentice" as they could without saying the words.

 

[davek]

Just listened to the echo pre match podcast and they've wheeled out Joe Thomas to sing from the same hymn sheet O'Keefe was.

"We took the club officials at their word"

" Very disappointed in the club. Can't make them answer questions"


"It's been a hard work for me"

Ffs lads just own up to the fact that you pushed a very disparaging headline with nothing more than the word of Dave Prentice.

Stop taking the abuse for the club and give it back to them.

Name the source who has just made you embarass yourself professionally in national media.

Grow a bloody back bone.

I think they're hoping we put the pieces together for them.

O'Keeffe and Boyland gave us no respect when they 'liked' that hit-piece on the club by Simon Hughes in the autumn. They should get no favours from us.

 

[Nymzee]

Journos these days are pure wank to be honest.

 

[Efcjake]

That's the point. It wasn't reported that a source made claims. It was reported as fact. The BBC journo used the following words with the official statement.

EFC’s Board of Directors have been instructed not to attend today’s game against Southampton because of a “real and credible threat to their safety and security".

Understand CEO Denise-Barrett Baxendale was physically manhandled by a male fan after the Brighton game.

Both Greeg O'Keefe and Joe Thomas are trying to weasel out of it by saying they just reported what was said.

That's not what their headlines said.

They knew full well what they were up to.

They're refusing to apologize and are instead begging for sympathy and once again painting the fans who are questioning their journalistic integrity and process as nothing more than social media abuse.

I'm sure they've gotten some abuse, I don't have any sympathy for them.

They wouldn't be getting any if they had done their jobs.

 

[Efcjake]

I think they're hoping we put the pieces together for them.

O'Keeffe and Boyland gave us no respect when they 'liked' that hit-piece on the club by Simon Hughes in the autumn. They should get no favours from us.

Nah they need to come out and say it.

The club, whether Prentice or someone else, has spun a tale and told them to print it and now they're taking the flak for towing the company line.

 

[Efcjake]

Yeah, as I say - off the record but still part of the official comms strategy.

The club wanted to squirt something out that was vague and cast the fans in a bad light, so they used off the record channels.

That was the crime - that’s what deserves the vitriol, not the journalists who didn’t do much of anything wrong.

Outrage is understandable, but we shouldn’t lose focus: it was dark arts by the comms dept at EFC being weaponised against the fanbase.

Prentice needs to go, as the man in charge.

No mate, they made the decision to write and run the story without any further corroboration.

That's their failure as journalists and the part that they own 100%.

 

[Zeitgeist]

Journos these days are pure wank to be honest.

The worst, getting paid for link clicks destroyed news outlets

 

[davek]

Nah they need to come out and say it.

The club, whether Prentice or someone else, has spun a tale and told them to print it and now they're taking the flak for towing the company line.

Exactly.

O'Keeffe is giving a nod and a wink and not coming clean. He wants to have his cake and eat it.

 

[kenada_blue]

Journalism died when the Internet came to be instead its

Look at x model showing X

Or Who buying X

It’s all click bait crap padded out with no facts

Nothing to do with credentials but everything to do with followers.

 

[AndyC]

Bad headline.

Look, I won’t disagree when I see it reported as fact as I say - so save yourself the effort, it’s Friday evening.

But I think a lot of crap is being thrown in the wrong direction. The PR team at the club are the villains here!

Genuine question - are you suggesting that the PR/Media team concocted and issued the 'information' about threats and the headlock without advising the upper echelons ?

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Genuine question - are you suggesting that the PR/Media team concocted and issued the 'information' about threats and the headlock without advising the upper echelons ?

That statement concerning the board regarding board action doesn't go out without board approval.

 

[matty1878]

They basically did as much to say "We were lied to buy the club/Prentice" as they could without saying the words.

so now they’re not believing it