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Positive exposure

 

Including when it's not earned? Including when it's not the view of the paper?

 

I think there's generally a balanced view, if not a slightly positive spin. I don't think it' borders on the sycophantic personally but i can so why many think it does given the Teesside mentality of playing everything down.

 

The Gazette is not a PR machine for the club, i think thats become pretty clear over the last few months.

 

Yeah, those past few months when the club started slapping their hands too. Going from what we've heard, this isn't something that started recently. This is something that started at the very least 2 months ago with the Orta article.

 

Don't get me wrong. This is the Gazette I want. The paper that pulls the club up on *** that they try to pull. But I'm not convinced that the club is wrong to feel so aggrieved given, it seems to me, that the paper made a deal with the devil and are now feeling that hellish touch on their shoulder.

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Must admit I agree that this will probably result in more objectivity from the Gazette in future. At least I hope so, or they might just go maniacal like they did with the Karanka/Orta pieces. Maybe they'll actually start doing some real journalism again, and *** what the club thinks.

 

I certainly won't miss them stringing out every sentence in the manager's press conference into separate, long-winded, uninteresting articles. I've been watching the press conference on the club website/YouTube since before this all kicked off, as you just get what the manager says verbatim.

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I think the current situation is not an all together unhealthy one, given that there should be some tension between the club and the paper, otherwise the latters reporting of all thing Boro becomes less objective and less challenging. I think the Gazette would want to protect and promote journalistic integrity and the club would want to maximise positive PR and an opportunity to promote their brand. Both can be achieved.

 

The relationship should be respectful and mutually beneficial, but that requires some tact and comprimise from both parties.

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I don't read the Gazette, just this forum. Plenty of info and opinion.

 

Which of KM's persons do you find the most informative :D

 

All of them. :P

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I don't read the Gazette, just this forum. Plenty of info and opinion.

 

Which of KM's persons do you find the most informative :D

 

All of them. :P

 

Think we've found third personality.......one that reads the other twos replies :)

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Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I've got a theory that the whole Gazette vs Boro debacle might be down to the Gazette revealing the price Girona paid for Bernardo.

 

Boro posted this on their site, and it states the fee is undisclosed: http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/bernardo-moves-on

 

The Gazette, via Dominic Shaw, posted that the fee was 4m: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bernardo-espinosa-several-offers-before-13314201

 

Now, with Stuani also moving to Girona, Boro have said that the fee can't be disclosed due to a privacy clause: http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/cristhian-stuani-makes-move-to-la-liga

 

Maybe Boro don't want Dominic Shaw to be involved with match day interviews due to his breaking of the privacy clause on the Bernardo transfer? Admittedly, you'd also have to hold accountable the person that told Shaw about the fee, so Boro aren't wholly clean, but the links seem to add up.

 

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it :)

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Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I've got a theory that the whole Gazette vs Boro debacle might be down to the Gazette revealing the price Girona paid for Bernardo.

 

Boro posted this on their site, and it states the fee is undisclosed: http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/bernardo-moves-on

 

The Gazette, via Dominic Shaw, posted that the fee was 4m: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bernardo-espinosa-several-offers-before-13314201

 

Now, with Stuani also moving to Girona, Boro have said that the fee can't be disclosed due to a privacy clause: http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/cristhian-stuani-makes-move-to-la-liga

 

Maybe Boro don't want Dominic Shaw to be involved with match day interviews due to his breaking of the privacy clause on the Bernardo transfer? Admittedly, you'd also have to hold accountable the person that told Shaw about the fee, so Boro aren't wholly clean, but the links seem to add up.

 

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it :)

 

The Gazette only published that fee after it was widely reported in Spain IIRC.

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Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I've got a theory that the whole Gazette vs Boro debacle might be down to the Gazette revealing the price Girona paid for Bernardo.

 

Boro posted this on their site, and it states the fee is undisclosed: http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/bernardo-moves-on

 

The Gazette, via Dominic Shaw, posted that the fee was 4m: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bernardo-espinosa-several-offers-before-13314201

 

Now, with Stuani also moving to Girona, Boro have said that the fee can't be disclosed due to a privacy clause: http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/cristhian-stuani-makes-move-to-la-liga

 

Maybe Boro don't want  Dominic Shaw to be involved with match day interviews due to his breaking of the privacy clause on the Bernardo transfer? Admittedly, you'd also have to hold accountable the person that told Shaw about the fee, so Boro aren't wholly clean, but the links seem to add up.

 

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it :)

 

The Gazette only published that fee after it was widely reported in Spain IIRC.

 

If that's the case then there goes my theory! Oh well lol

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Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I've got a theory that the whole Gazette vs Boro debacle might be down to the Gazette revealing the price Girona paid for Bernardo.

 

Boro posted this on their site, and it states the fee is undisclosed: http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/bernardo-moves-on

 

The Gazette, via Dominic Shaw, posted that the fee was 4m: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bernardo-espinosa-several-offers-before-13314201

 

Now, with Stuani also moving to Girona, Boro have said that the fee can't be disclosed due to a privacy clause: http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/cristhian-stuani-makes-move-to-la-liga

 

Maybe Boro don't want  Dominic Shaw to be involved with match day interviews due to his breaking of the privacy clause on the Bernardo transfer? Admittedly, you'd also have to hold accountable the person that told Shaw about the fee, so Boro aren't wholly clean, but the links seem to add up.

 

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it :)

 

The Gazette only published that fee after it was widely reported in Spain IIRC.

 

If that's the case then there goes my theory! Oh well lol

 

Also Shaw hasn't been allowed near interviews since Monks appointment.

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