The ECHO

Does the Liverpool Echo show bias in it's coverage?

  • Bias towards the Reds

    Votes: 48 85.7%

  • Bias towards the Blues

    Votes: 3 5.4%

  • No Bias and I'm perfectly happy with their coverage of Everton

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • Bias Towards the Reds and I can prove it (with evidence and links below)

    Votes: 9 16.1%
  • Total voters
    56
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Is that Danny popcorning them? Fantastic work.

Do me a favour someone and link them this, with regards from azul.

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Ten pages of coverage and thankfully they acknowledge that a little girl was starving herself to death in the top corner.

Oh, and they were dead wrong. Shithouse of a paper.
 

The thing with the Echo is the alarming less and less quality that they showing, its like they have become lazy due to the lack of competition in terms of a local paper. It's now mostly alarmist stories directed with the spirit of Pete Price to show it's dead local.

It's easy for us as a group to say there's bias towards Liverpool, as do it with other things like MOTD and that. Two points here though, we sort of accept that the national media will always bum Liverpool but our local media needs to reflect the city, of which there is as much demand for Everton as there is Liverpool, the Echo doesn't do this. On their feed there try and find the last Everton story they tweeted.

My second point on the bias is find me a number of Liverpool fans who complains about bias towards Everton in the Echo.

Exactly.
 
Overall, Liverpool bias, especially in off-the-field matters. But our sports coverage is still decent, and we have two very good journos in O'Keeffe and Prentice on our side.
 
chicoazul said:
Is that Danny popcorning them? Fantastic work.

Do me a favour someone and link them this, with regards from azul.

Ten pages of coverage and thankfully they acknowledge that a little girl was starving herself to death in the top corner.

Oh, and they were dead wrong. Shithouse of a paper.
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They regularly have "specials" with like 15 pages dedicated to them too. The more they (The Echo) claim there isn't a bias the more you see there is.

They just won't admit it.

No wonder among Blues the ECHO's reputation's poor and declining.
 

Not lived in Liverpool for years, so only occasionally read it when I visit.

The thing is, even with a possibly understandable increase in LFC stories (we have to admit they are at a pivotal period in there history) at the moment, it would be easy to provide coverage of both clubs. It just takes clever journalism.

For example what is happening to LFC isn't happening in a vacuum but as part of a larger culture of commercialism in football and of money impinging sports to the detriment of the fans -who despite sponsorship consistently end up paying more for sports via television or sales tickets. That's one angle.
Another is that both clubs are not dissimilar in needs. LFC and EFC both need new stadiums to ensure growth. One has gambled on new ownership, the other is mired in a relationship that has proven divisive to the fan base.

There are so many opportunities and perspectives for decent journalism here, that could engage what is quintessentially a football loving city and readership. Its a shame if they are pandering solely to the red side, if only by column inches and not by explicit bias (although that may be there I don't know).

*can someone put me forward for a sports journalism job there, I know I could do it with my eyes closed.
 
It's like anything though. Unless you tell them you're not happy with it and their coverage - they'll continue to do it.


Read some of the responses on the Twitter feed. The Echo's obviously in a state of denial. Which is why they need telling.
 
I was bemused by that twitter feed too. Whoever done it went totally the wrong way about it and only really validated the expressed opinion, very naive.

If they're constantly feeding story after story of the Liverpool takeover thing without any Everton stories then what more evidence do they need? I can almost guarantee the person writing that story is a red.

And in case they haven't forgotten, it's derby week. Which involves the two clubs from the city. Shouldn't they be building up derby day?
 

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