Christmas Tree 4003 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 All press have now been denied access to Newcastle United In between matches unless they pay. Letters have apparently gone out today offering bronze silver and gold packages to the Nationals, rack package offering bigger and better access. Full story in the Journal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6443 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Not content with free advertising for SD he now wants to profit from journalistic interest? Hopefully this will be reinvested in the squad. ZaZa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4003 Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Letters from Newcastle United have been sent to national newspaper editors as a new paid-for access package is proposed by the club The first letters on official Newcastle United notepaper have begun to land on the desks of national newspaper editors. A mooted plan to try to make papers pay for “exclusive” access – rumoured for a while now – has become reality with the offer of a series of packages offering interviews for a fee. The club, presumably, see it as the first shot in a revolution in the way the Premier League interacts with the print media, but others are looking on with a mixture of surprise and disdain. Little, though, should surprise us at St James’ Park these days. While the club are performing superbly on the pitch, they are continuing to cause ripples off it. Fresh from banning ncjMedia titles , Newcastle United have broken from the pack to move in a new direction in terms of their relationship with the rest of the print media. They have told reporters from national titles who are working in the North East that they will no longer be given access to their players between matches this season and will instead give those “privileges” to organisations that pay them. This has never happened before. They are the first Premier League football club to try to do this and it will be interesting to see what kind of reaction it garners. At least one national newspaper has delivered an unequivocal ‘no’ but the club seem determined to test the water on an unpopular plan. The club have rather optimistically graded the packages as bronze, silver and gold with the level of payment determining the level of access. They say they want a “media partner”, although what this would do for the independence of any organisation that signed up is an entirely different matter. Would a gold package insure you against one of Mike Ashley’s frequent banning orders , for example? Ashley is keen to monetise access but seems to miss the point. Yesterday, the club’s players visited children’s hospitals throughout the region to deliver presents. Having banned a fair chunk of the local media, the coverage was vastly reduced – taking away some of the shine that this good news story traditionally produces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6443 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 How much did he charge the hospitals though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 20149 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 no words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9232 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Football Genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Football Genius Or comical genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 39167 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 What a pack of unutterable cunts we have running our club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Any idea how much they're asking for these packages ? Also I wonder what level of access each package brings ? Bronze package = being able to speak to the groundsman & the tea lady? Gold package = being able to speak to the players & manager ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9232 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Gold = Cabaye, Silver = Krul, Bronze = Steven Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Gold = Cabaye, Silver = Krul, Bronze = Steven Taylor I laughed ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Its annoying while the team are trying their best on the pitch yet again that fucker seems to revel in causing shite off the pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneColdStephenIreland 74 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Theyve gotta pay for the upcoming transfer window and new training complex somehow.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14907 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I knew it was all going a tiny bit too well....wonder if the print media will tell the club to fuck off in general? i.e. stop turning up for press conferences etc? wouldn't blame them tbh. I don't have a lot of respect for individual journalists but the press are almost unpaid promoters of any club's brand and if you put that relationship in peril you'll stand to lose a lot more than you'll gain, which is fuck all in the first place. Wonder if Joe had any input? " I'd faackin charge the faackin caants if I were you Mike...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 39167 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 " Who's Simon Bird? You owe £4:36, you cunt" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 3612 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 We're doing to well on the pitch. Something was bound to happen. But its still unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 4968 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Absolutely appalling. No doubt will be used to exert control over press output as well. Who the fuck does Ashley think he is, the massive, massive bell-end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 35493 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Who is gonna pay to visit the platitude buffet that is the modern footballer interview ffs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 4968 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Separate issue - does the club actually control the press access rights to players? Are they not free to speak for themselves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Wonder what the players have been told they're allowed to do. Hope we don't lose Sammy's twitter/instagram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2188 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Stupid and greedy. Which is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Separate issue - does the club actually control the press access rights to players? Are they not free to speak for themselves?Aye was thinking the same thing, surely the club can only make these demands for the official interviews like pre and post match. They can't really block them having phone conversations with journalists and things like that surely? Who needs the post match comments and things like that anyway, the journalists could pretty much just make them up and they'd be canny accurate anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Don't the premier league require a post match media session too. I know they do for telly. Assumed for the papers too. Same with Thursday pre-match pressers and that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9232 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 So it'll just be the occasional interview not associated with one game or another? The kind of stuff that is fluff (in the now banned local press)we only read because it's there and we ingest everything and anything about our club? Well this will have no impact on anything what-so-ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondTUTU 0 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Gold = Cabaye, Silver = Krul, Bronze = Steven Taylor surely taylor is brass or aluminium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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