The Echo reporters - banned from Finch Farm

[zed]

whats all this about anyway, maybe i should get the echo and find out. yours truly, maybe not

 

[turner]

This is a bad move really. It's not really a blow to the echo, they barely report on us anyway, and the board will now be seen as fair game to them. I can't really think what the board thought they could gain from this: "no, we're not letting you have exclusive pictures of our new bratislavan trialist for the under 16s"

 

[thebluefox]

Incredible.

In effect, what Kenwright has done is to slap supporters backdown. The Echo couldn't fail to have registered the mood and fears of Evertonians in the run up to - and just after - the club accounts being published. They responded to that. So the message Kenwright and Elstone are now sending out by banning the Echo is that any new upsurge in the criticism of the club's board (and it'll defo come again in the summer) the Echo better not reflect it or they'll be punished again.

100 per cent correct

 

[Neiler]

Be intresting to see the change of tone in reporting, i wonder will they pander more to the board or be increseingly scathing - will tell us an awfull lot about the echos credibility and standard of reporting.

 

[kenada_blue]

Boss neg rep for nothing by some clown.

Anyway...im guessing any reporters that give us a bad write are going to get banned too...

Of course not.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

People are going to have their point of view. Actions like banning them is unlikely to change that. Not a particularly wise move in my opinion by the club.

 

[msb]

When will you all learn? Your opinion does not matter, only your money.

 

[BlackToffee]

You know something, this is one of the reasons why some people believe that the internet is evil. Because someone says something doesn't actually make it true. On the blueroom forum, the rumour (I won't dignify this as a fact) was that Everton had banned players from giving interviews to the local papers. Now we have it that reporters have been banned from Finch Farm.

And the proof? An infrequent poster says "I spoke to him and he confirmed it". So, Bluetack didn't Prentice say what action the paper would be taking? Are you telling me that a reporter gets stopped from doing his job and he just shrugs his shoulder and his paper lies down dead? And people swallow "proof" within posing the most obvious of questions around who, what, where, when how? If I was on first name terms with Prentice, I'd want the full SP, not just a simple confirmation.

I realise that there are people on this forum who would always think ill of the current board, but let's have some proper evidence that we can examine, eh. Until you do, great bit of urban myth, or is that mischief making?

 

[davek]

You know something, this is one of the reasons why some people believe that the internet is evil. Because someone says something doesn't actually make it true. On the blueroom forum, the rumour (I won't dignify this as a fact) was that Everton had banned players from giving interviews to the local papers. Now we have it that reporters have been banned from Finch Farm.

And the proof? An infrequent poster says "I spoke to him and he confirmed it". So, Bluetack didn't Prentice say what action the paper would be taking? Are you telling me that a reporter gets stopped from doing his job and he just shrugs his shoulder and his paper lies down dead? And people swallow "proof" within posing the most obvious of questions around who, what, where, when how? If I was on first name terms with Prentice, I'd want the full SP, not just a simple confirmation.

I realise that there are people on this forum who would always think ill of the current board, but let's have some proper evidence that we can examine, eh. Until you do, great bit of urban myth, or is that mischief making?

It's not just bluefox, plenty more have reported this...and Greg O'Keefe of the Echo used his twitter account to broadly hint the problem is there.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Those questions are all very leading. A survey should always phrase the question in a neutral way, and "Have you given up hope of Everton getting a new stadium in the foreseeable future?" is not neutral!

 

[Chang Elephant]

You know something, this is one of the reasons why some people believe that the internet is evil. Because someone says something doesn't actually make it true. On the blueroom forum, the rumour (I won't dignify this as a fact) was that Everton had banned players from giving interviews to the local papers. Now we have it that reporters have been banned from Finch Farm.

And the proof? An infrequent poster says "I spoke to him and he confirmed it". So, Bluetack didn't Prentice say what action the paper would be taking? Are you telling me that a reporter gets stopped from doing his job and he just shrugs his shoulder and his paper lies down dead? And people swallow "proof" within posing the most obvious of questions around who, what, where, when how? If I was on first name terms with Prentice, I'd want the full SP, not just a simple confirmation.

I realise that there are people on this forum who would always think ill of the current board, but let's have some proper evidence that we can examine, eh. Until you do, great bit of urban myth, or is that mischief making?

Correct, i'm still wondering why the Fortress Sports Fund didn't buy in.

 

[NickEFC]

I don't buy the Post or Echo, on the basis of it being heavily ****e based, but my colleagues do and since this "ban" was rumoured, plenty of quotes from players have appeared in there and no one's ever given me a link to O'Keefe's tweet (and I don't have a twitter account nor do i want one) so, i'll be honest, I don't feel I've seen enough evidence to suggest it's true.

But if it is, it's a bit petty, but no different than has happened in the past with Everton. Still don't know how it "contributed" to Royle's down fall. The last I checked, Peter Johnson was Everton's chairman at the time, not Dave Prentice.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

I don't buy the Post or Echo, on the basis of it being heavily ****e based, but my colleagues do and since this "ban" was rumoured, plenty of quotes from players have appeared in there and no one's ever given me a link to O'Keefe's tweet (and I don't have a twitter account nor do i want one) so, i'll be honest, I don't feel I've seen enough evidence to suggest it's true.

But if it is, it's a bit petty, but no different than has happened in the past with Everton. Still don't know how it "contributed" to Royle's down fall. The last I checked, Peter Johnson was Everton's chairman at the time, not Dave Prentice.

Gregs reply to a query loosely based around the alleged ban was " cant get into that sorry".

 

[jceverton]

Gregs reply to a query loosely based around the alleged ban was " cant get into that sorry".

If that is correct then to have no response from The Echo about it being banned is pretty spineless on their behalf. The Echo has for the past ten years simply followed the party line from the club. Their coverage of Destination Kirkby was laughably one sided and their refusal to ask any questions until the last few weeks has frankly been a complete failure of journalism.

But if it is true that they have been banned then it really doesn't reflect well on the club at all.

 

[sharron]

speaking to the other half apparently there was a fall out with the other side and all last week?? echo aint doing well is it! Cant stand it meself so not that arsed!