Our PR department and the media

Blue Llama said:
According to the OS we have sold out our allocation for the semi final. Considering the publicity I would have thought that City would have made more of it than listing it in that silly City Now side strip.
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That citynow strip is so annoying.
Makes the site navigation so slow as it reloads every time you go 'back', and no option to hide.

I had to resort to manually blocking it with ABP as it was such a pain
 
cyberblue said:
I have not heard seen or read anything from the press dept to counter the slagging off we got
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How it probably worked is Keegan got on to City saying I've heard you've only sold 20k of tickets. Our Press Officer would have said we've sold 30k with four days to go and we expect to sell out as usual. They would have added that a Sunday fixture has resulted in sales being a bit slower than usual. Hence Keegan writes an article is a bit more reflective of the reality.

That's not to say we shouldn't be doing more but our people will be trying. I've run a Marketing and Communicatiions Team before on issues in the media spotlight.
 
Wreckless Alec said:
No. Propoganda may succeed but unopposed propaganda certainly will.

It's true that we're fighting against a tsunami of lies and bullshit but it's absolutely our duty to put up some resistance. If that means posting in the comments section or simply ridiculing them at work, then it has to be done as far as i'm concerned and it gladdens my heart to see posters like PB taking these people to task.

It's more important that people stop getting upset about it or, worse, becoming "Uncle Malcolms" and actually agreeing with it in an attempt to come across as reasonable.
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It's hard to tell if the comments sections are actually occupied by people that should indeed be sectioned. Any comments with any rationale are swamped under the masses of idiotic comments that have no bearing on real life.
 
willipp said:
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I wonder of they will sweep this under the carpet as well the disrespectful pricks. Deleted fairly quickly so cannot claim they didn't realise it would cause offense. They really are turning into a scumbag media outlet in line with the SUN.
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Hardly surprising given most of their prominent media jobs are being given to ex-fleet street 'journalists'.
 
Bert Trautmann's Parachute said:
Yesterday's BBC coverage of the semi-final was embarrassing. Pro-spurs bullshit for 90 mins. They lost.
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They are media darlings always have been as far as I remember, there is a certain 'romance' about them perpetuated by the media see also the 'ugly sisters' at either end of the East Lancs. The truth is they are no different than any of the other clubs in London despite what the media tell us.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
How it probably worked is Keegan got on to City saying I've heard you've only sold 20k of tickets. Our Press Officer would have said we've sold 30k with four days to go and we expect to sell out as usual. They would have added that a Sunday fixture has resulted in sales being a bit slower than usual. Hence Keegan writes an article is a bit more reflective of the reality.

That's not to say we shouldn't be doing more but our people will be trying. I've run a Marketing and Communicatiions Team before on issues in the media spotlight.
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Keegan used to post on here when working at the MUEN. He was a prick then and even more so now.

He used to work with a mate of mine for a few years before he went into the "media". Poxy-faced bullshitter back then, only saving grace is he ain't a RAG, Oldham fan.
 
It's bugging me that the BBC are focusing on the last time a Manc derby was on a Thursday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39698274 We get a Thursday every week, so what? Why not focus on the last time (only time!) the Manc derby was played on 27th April - 1974 when, well we all know what happened. That to me is a much better story and a much better anniversary/tie up. It's nothing to do with MCFC's PR but everything to do with how the BBC Sport website people behave.
 
Something to add to the list?

It's bugging me that the BBC are focusing on the last time a Manc derby was on a Thursday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39698274 We get a Thursday every week, so what? Why not focus on the last time (only time!) the Manc derby was played on 27th April - 1974 when, well we all know what happened. That to me is a much better story and a much better anniversary/tie up.
 
Gary James said:
Something to add to the list?

It's bugging me that the BBC are focusing on the last time a Manc derby was on a Thursday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39698274 We get a Thursday every week, so what? Why not focus on the last time (only time!) the Manc derby was played on 27th April - 1974 when, well we all know what happened. That to me is a much better story and a much better anniversary/tie up.
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It would be nice, but it doesn't fit their current agenda.
 
1) Any big win will only be because the opponent played badly.

2) Any decision which goes for City will be focused on x100 and they will only have won because of this decision.

3) Any decision which goes against City will be given minimum coverage without being highlighted as a possible reason for defeat.

4) Any decision which goes for City and is 'missed' by the referee will be headline news and the main back page story for the sport pages in order to get the player suspended.

5) If City win the title it will be only expected of them & any awards or credit will be directed to the highest performing British manager of that season.

6) City players will not be highlighted as potential player of the year candidates, even during title winning seasons.

7) Any English player who joins City will be labely as being greedy and having ruined their career. They will be the reason for any defeats or eliminations.
 
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7) Man city Manager can win the double in his first season and not get manager of the year because with our squad its expected so gave it Pardew.
 
I listened too yesterdays match simultaneously on 5live and GMR and watched the 'highlights' on motd.
I don't know who the 5l presenter is but what a fucking biased wanker he was. Slagged us off, took the piss and talked complete bollox.
One of his gems in the first half was, " City can still theoretically catch spurs although it's highly unlikely. I can't see spurs losing their last 3 games and City won't win all theirs."
Over on GMR, the excellent Jack Dearden was drooling over the one touch football we were playing and stated, "City are, and have been all season, a joy too watch at times."
As for motd's coverage, well you probably saw it and know what a negative, twisted pile of shite it was.
 
how about:

the media will pre write its own narrative way before looking at, or investigating any facts or looking for any actual insights to what does eventually happen, and then stick to its own narrative based on opinion of people who have the collective knowledge regarding football of an onion!
 
I watched TSN and believe me the commentary was appalling. I do not know who the commentator was but he was English and there was a deep desire from him for Leicester to get in to the game and he made that absolutely clear: talking up City's alleged nerves from the moment they scored; focussing on the impacting Raheem Sterling being offside and then interfering with play and referrring to Leicester being "Well in this," at every opportunity. It felt like City were not the better team for most off the game.
 
Seriously - we need to wise-up folks.

For the media, the rags are like sex and sex sells. That's why the media leeches the bastards - not because they like them necessarily, but because appearing to like them makes them money.

We are negatively represented by the media because a. we threaten the commercial viability of this relationship and b. we fucked-up the cosy cartel.

For those seeking "fairness" and "balanced representation" - it's a forlorn and naive hope that leads to continual disappointment. Fairness and balance does not sell newspapers and/or generate clicks. It's magnolia. So it's either having smoke blown up your arse by a bunch of sycophants which, in no time at all, becomes your distorted view of reality and you then become (and also attract) a bunch of arrogant, hateful fucking wankers a la our rag friends or alternatively you are represented as the devil incarnate, despised by all but your own.

With those 2 choices I take the latter every time. Know your enemies, see them for what they truly are, circle the wagons, and destroy them.

Sky, Talksport, the Sun - a media machine driving football opinion in this country and from the same despicable bastards responsible for "The Truth"
 
waspish said:
7) Man city Manager can win the double in his first season and not get manager of the year because with our squad its expected so gave it Pardew.
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In fact Pardew was awarded the PL Manager of the Season in 2012. Despite the award customarily being given to the title winning manger Pardew got it for getting Newcastle to 5th. At that time the only non-British managers to win the award were Mourinho and Wenger.

It was in 2013-14 that Pellegrini won the PL title and the League Cup in his first season in England but the 'only two foreigners' rule kicked in again and the award went to Pulis for making Palace slightly less shite than previous years. They finished in the bottom half of the table all of 12 points above the relegation places. Of course when Mourinho returned to Chelsea the following season and won the PL title and the League Cup the award was given to him for achieving the same feat as Pellegrini.
 
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