Ok, so a lot of you are going nuts about this Vieira to Madrid bollocks. Crazy. Wild. I fear for some of your health.
So to make you feel better we're going to do a Media Studies 101 class.
Basically you're misreading the articles - which like every other big story this summer, are non-events. They're all waiting for the moment when Vieira is NOT going to Madrid, officially, not for him to go. Because he's staying at Arsenal.
And this is why:
1. The Vieira to Madrid story started in the Mirror and has now been hijacked by the Sun. The Mirror began the idea, because they need splashes on players who have contracts with the Sun/News of the World. As Myles Palmer said, Vieira has a contract with the NOTW, so any official statement by him will have to be an exclusive with them. Therefore any story about Vieira will always start in the Mirror, who want maximum impact on breaking news when they have no chance of getting an interview, but HAS to end in the Murdoch rags.
Today, for example, Vieira is relegated firmly to the inside pages of the Mirror, whilst still occupying pride of place in the Sun. That's a signal that this is all bullshit. Were he actually going it would be a big enough story to stay on the Mirror's back page. As it is, only the Sun and it's Tory tabloid competitors the Mail and Express, need to keep the story so prominent - because the NOTW will get the interview that says he's staying at Arsenal. Thus keeping the **** readers locked, whilst the Mirror can be satisfied at having broken the story.
This is the same process every other year - Alan Nixon, Martin Lipton and the other ****s at the Mirror do Vieira to Madrid stories every year which quickly disappear to the inside pages of that paper, because they're lies. The NOTW does the story that says he stays.
2. This is the ultimate case of Journalists feeding off scraps. For that reason alone it's evident bollocks.
When the Vieira-Madrid thing broke it was a speculation on one quote from Florentine Perez. There have been no more quotes of any value since. Look at the stories today. There's not a single quote in there, except for a blank response from Paddy's agent. Newspaper journalists absolutely depend on quotes, even made up ones. Any story without quotes is a direct signal that a story is a flat out lie. Because it's a journalists way of saying, "all you readers just wait, there's a rejection coming, but we can't do it today because the copy isn't written yet. But keep on buying the papers til it comes out."
3. The Spanish Press has lost interest in this.
The Spanish tabloids are crazy. AS and Marca are Perez's cocksuckers. But they think the midfielder for next year in Madrid is ..... Emerson. As does the coach, Camacho.
But the English press can't sell a story about that. So they'll carry on with this until the rejection comes out. Then move on to something else.
So to make you feel better we're going to do a Media Studies 101 class.
Basically you're misreading the articles - which like every other big story this summer, are non-events. They're all waiting for the moment when Vieira is NOT going to Madrid, officially, not for him to go. Because he's staying at Arsenal.
And this is why:
1. The Vieira to Madrid story started in the Mirror and has now been hijacked by the Sun. The Mirror began the idea, because they need splashes on players who have contracts with the Sun/News of the World. As Myles Palmer said, Vieira has a contract with the NOTW, so any official statement by him will have to be an exclusive with them. Therefore any story about Vieira will always start in the Mirror, who want maximum impact on breaking news when they have no chance of getting an interview, but HAS to end in the Murdoch rags.
Today, for example, Vieira is relegated firmly to the inside pages of the Mirror, whilst still occupying pride of place in the Sun. That's a signal that this is all bullshit. Were he actually going it would be a big enough story to stay on the Mirror's back page. As it is, only the Sun and it's Tory tabloid competitors the Mail and Express, need to keep the story so prominent - because the NOTW will get the interview that says he's staying at Arsenal. Thus keeping the **** readers locked, whilst the Mirror can be satisfied at having broken the story.
This is the same process every other year - Alan Nixon, Martin Lipton and the other ****s at the Mirror do Vieira to Madrid stories every year which quickly disappear to the inside pages of that paper, because they're lies. The NOTW does the story that says he stays.
2. This is the ultimate case of Journalists feeding off scraps. For that reason alone it's evident bollocks.
When the Vieira-Madrid thing broke it was a speculation on one quote from Florentine Perez. There have been no more quotes of any value since. Look at the stories today. There's not a single quote in there, except for a blank response from Paddy's agent. Newspaper journalists absolutely depend on quotes, even made up ones. Any story without quotes is a direct signal that a story is a flat out lie. Because it's a journalists way of saying, "all you readers just wait, there's a rejection coming, but we can't do it today because the copy isn't written yet. But keep on buying the papers til it comes out."
3. The Spanish Press has lost interest in this.
The Spanish tabloids are crazy. AS and Marca are Perez's cocksuckers. But they think the midfielder for next year in Madrid is ..... Emerson. As does the coach, Camacho.
But the English press can't sell a story about that. So they'll carry on with this until the rejection comes out. Then move on to something else.
