Edinburgh Evening News

[SkintHibby]

By pure chance I came across the Edinburgh Evening News facebook page.

Hearts player in front of Hibs player shocker!

Reminds me of the Scotland flag being insignificant behind England flag in the butchers apron.

Everything Evening News has HEARTS before HIBS and always has been. ALWAYS.


Do any of my fellow Hibees actually have anything to do with this excuse for a newspaper, or even worse, buy it?

[Mcpakeisgod]

Cmon man chill out, you sound like a Celtic fan with Ll the conspiracy nonsense

[Pete]

It's alphabetical.

[Kato]

Cmon man chill out, you sound like a Celtic fan with Ll the conspiracy nonsense



Nah, he's bang on and actually if anything is being restrained.



For example.

Hearts share issues - free advertising and endless articles about "bravehearts".



Hibs share issue - interviews with doubters and lies about Hibs ownership.



I for one will never buy it again and rarely give them clickroom..

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Talk of the town column as well, just saying likes! ;-)

[SkintHibby]

Nah, he's bang on and actually if anything is being restrained.



For example.

Hearts share issues - free advertising and endless articles about "bravehearts".



Hibs share issue - interviews with doubters and lies about Hibs ownership.



I for one will never buy it again and rarely give them clickroom..

Well done mate.

[Onceinawhile]

Yet funnily enough the hearts fans think it's a his rag. The reality is it reports generally positively about both Edinburgh teams as that's their market.

The foundation of hearts got good press as it was life or death for them. This isn't for us. In addition I don't think their scheme had any detractors?

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Hearts don't have any detractors whatever they do (apart from us) as can be seen from their conduct over the last few years.

[lord bunberry]

Yet funnily enough the hearts fans think it's a his rag. The reality is it reports generally positively about both Edinburgh teams as that's their market.

The foundation of hearts got good press as it was life or death for them. This isn't for us. In addition I don't think their scheme had any detractors?

I'm sure the busineses and charities who were being bumped wouldn't have been keen on the foh plan. Why didn't the Evening News speak to them?
It's a shockingly bad newspaper infested with jambos, especially the sports department.

[Hibs Class]

I'm sure the busineses and charities who were being bumped wouldn't have been keen on the foh plan. Why didn't the Evening News speak to them?
It's a shockingly bad newspaper infested with jambos, especially the sports department.

i agree it's become a poorly run, poorly written paper. It's incompetence goes way beyond the sports pages though, headlines are hyperbolic and misleading, articles are badly written, and their online presence is more akin to an ill-educated facebook friend than an objective media presence.

For all its weaknesses though, it's still less offensive than trolls who make reference to the butchers apron. Both my family and my wife's family have many ancestors who fought tyranny and made the sacrifice under the flag, and when I see statements like those of the OP, I feel genuinely thankful that the only thing we have in common is the football team we support.

[Peevemor]

Yet funnily enough the hearts fans think it's a his rag. The reality is it reports generally positively about both Edinburgh teams as that's their market.

The foundation of hearts got good press as it was life or death for them. This isn't for us. In addition I don't think their scheme had any detractors?

Their scheme didn't have any detractors because they didn't have a choice. The Hibs scheme's detractors were so pathetic any decent paper would have simply ignored them.

I have no problem with how Hearts are doing things under Budge, but they definitely got an easy ride re. the number of people that were (deliberately and fraudulently) bumped when they went down the tubes.

[heretoday]

The Evening News is a dull affair these days to be sure. Acres and acres of newsprint signifying nothing.

I wouldn't say they had a Hearts bias at all. The Hibs correspondent - David Hardie - is as big a Hibs fan as you'll find and he gets plenty of space. His problem is filling it with anything meaningful or interesting.

It's all so turgid and lacking in humour above all.

[Jim44]

The Evening News is a dull affair these days to be sure. Acres and acres of newsprint signifying nothing.

I wouldn't say they had a Hearts bias at all. The Hibs correspondent - David Hardie - is as big a Hibs fan as you'll find and he gets plenty of space. His problem is filling it with anything meaningful or interesting.

It's all so turgid and lacking in humour above all.

I tend to agree. According to comments on KB that I've seen, they seem to think the EEN has a Hibs bias.:dunno:

[steakbake]

EEN is a *****y parochial rag. It's not a serious effort at being a capital city's newspaper but more of a newsletter for the sake of its own readership. If it had any real competition worth reading, it'd be relegated to being a free advertising newspaper with a couple of human interest stories.

Zero investigative value, zero genuine political insight and little or no interesting, fresh news about sports. If it went, I wouldn't even blink to miss it.

[snooky]

In my day, Hearts man John Ayres was the sports editor of the EEN and (as I've said on Hibsnet before) it had a back page headline of "Townsend Doubtful For Saturday" the morning after Hibs beat Napoli 5-0 at Easter Road.
Stuart Brown took over from JA and IIRC his lean was more orientated to the green side. :greengrin