Media bias against City

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I recall an interview with Dan Taylor a while back where he inferred that City will only do PR articles if the journalist promotes a worthy cause that City want to push, usually a charitable foundation or community project. Taylor seemed to note that some papers didn't like that & wouldn't play along - so maybe another reason we see mostly negative shit about us being peddled relentlessly
 
Marvin said:
Naively I thought that once City had won a trophy and established ourselves as a top 4 club the media profile would improve.

Some of the ridicule has stopped, i.e. when we are linked to top players, there's no longer the same guffaws, but the hostility is there. The reason has got nothing to do with City, and everything to do with the sense of panic in clubs like Liverpool and Man Utd and the media play on that.

Give it 5 more years, but it doesn't bother me so much now. The papers are losing business and influence as the media changes. If you follow football now, the way you do it has changed. It's no longer the Pink at 6pm after the game, it's go to the game, then talk about it online, you don't wait for what Peter Gardner and David Lacey think. And you can talk back. Technology is marginalising our critics and their bias just accelerates their demise.

If you want to see how it should be done, watch Man Utd's Fulltimedevils or ArsenalFanTV. They had a guy called Clyde who was just compulsive viewing. Fans are much more knowledgeable than they are give credit for by "professionals."
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I think that was a really good post Marvin.

I must admit that I had noticed the change in media but not connected it to the panic this will cause to traditional media as they struggle to update. A little akin to the way hot press was replaced by early digital methods of producing newspapers but much more radical.

Looking at Fulltimedevils for the first time was a revelation (many thanks for your suggestion). The presentation is slick and informative. I really think that our owners would do well to fund something like that still keeping our own official CityTV of course.

The latest video regarding United's pursuit of Valencia's Otamendi makes a virtue out of the fact that the player may go on strike to force his departure to United but that only becomes a deadly sin if a player goes to City of course.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Thick cunts, most sports journalists.
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Yup. Two minutes of watching Shaun Cuntis on Sunday Supplement is all the evidence you'll ever need. The ones I hate more though are those that pass themselves off as elder statesmen, all mock gravitas and peering over the rims of their half moon glasses, harrumphing their approval of whatever cretinous point has just been made by one of their brain dead colleagues. That **** Barclay springs to mind.........
 
Mikejl said:
I recall an interview with Dan Taylor a while back where he inferred that City will only do PR articles if the journalist promotes a worthy cause that City want to push, usually a charitable foundation or community project. Taylor seemed to note that some papers didn't like that & wouldn't play along - so maybe another reason we see mostly negative shit about us being peddled relentlessly
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I went to a supporter's club function earlier this year and Alex Williams was lamenting that very point. Invited the press along to a City in the Community function aimed at (if memory serves) getting senior citizens involved in 'walk' football, and all the cockroaches wanted to do (and did, much to Alex's despair) was focus on the fact that two of the old boys had to be asked to change out of the rag tops they'd turned up in. Something of that ilk. Anyway, as a measure of the types of people they are, they'd rather score cheap snickering points at City's expense than properly cover a charitable good news story
 
SilverFox2 said:
I think that was a really good post Marvin.

I must admit that I had noticed the change in media but not connected it to the panic this will cause to traditional media as they struggle to update. A little akin to the way hot press was replaced by early digital methods of producing newspapers but much more radical.

Looking at Fulltimedevils for the first time was a revelation (many thanks for your suggestion). The presentation is slick and informative. I really think that our owners would do well to fund something like that still keeping our own official CityTV of course.

The latest video regarding United's pursuit of Valencia's Otamendi makes a virtue out of the fact that the player may go on strike to force his departure to United but that only becomes a deadly sin if a player goes to City of course.
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Fulltimedevils is the best fan produced content I have found. Arsenalfantv is hilarious after an Arsenal defeat. There's this guy called Claude who gets totally irate. But I really rate the people involved. They car passionately about their clubs, and know a lot about their teams. There's some poor stuff to. The worst I have found is redmentv (Liverpool fans Youtube channel).

There's a place for traditional journalism too, but I don't think we have to worry about ever dot and comma.
 
A couple of years ago Jeff Powell was criticising us for buying Navas and Fernandinho:

Yet in the midst of all this activity, whither the promising young English footballer?
And what price the England team?

Then when we buy the most promising of the lot, he still slags us off. Just a ****, it's that simple!
 
invisibleboy said:
our club simply couldn't care less about the media, gary cook brought the philosophy in when he realised the media was of no benefit financially to the club. this is why we don't have endless stories about our players on tour and how our new star play has used a training bike. city just keeps them all at arms length and gets on with it. case in point being sterling all the news was generated by the grievers not a word from city.

personally prefer it that way the constent laughable stories from manu on tour are hilarious I'm sure you have all seen todays big news that they use exercise bikes.
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If this is the case why don't we just get rid of our PR Dept, we might as well for all the 'work' they do
 
Some people are scum because they choose scummy jobs. They can pretend that they are loving fathers etc but deep down they know they are not just in it to feed the kids, they know they enjoy causing misery.

I put almost all football journalists firmly in this category, all of the paparazzi, most people who raise rents to make others homeless, most people who kick them out, many taxmen, many policemen, many security guys, most politicians, most bankers, etc, etc.

Effin scum!
 
warspite said:
If this is the case why don't we just get rid of our PR Dept, we might as well for all the 'work' they do
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i would argue the PR Dept spend there time on city fans rather than the media. middle of the last season my dad contacted city about adding his mates name, a city fan all his life who had never missed a home game until his death, to the end of season roll call of fans who have passed away. the club arranged for a large floral tribute to arrive at the funeral (clubs crest in flowers) no request was made it was a surprise to everyone.
 
I must admit that the back page of the sun made me laugh. SAS!!!, was the headline,referring to Silva, Aguero and Sterling.
It then named Liverpool 's strikers, which made the abbreviation, LMFAO.
(although I think they've finally given up on scousers ever forgiving them now)
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Yup. Two minutes of watching Shaun Cuntis on Sunday Supplement is all the evidence you'll ever need. The ones I hate more though are those that pass themselves off as elder statesmen, all mock gravitas and peering over the rims of their half moon glasses, harrumphing their approval of whatever cretinous point has just been made by one of their brain dead colleagues. That **** Barclay springs to mind.........
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Hugh McIlvanney comes to my mind. Most Sundays you can find him slagging us lot off and harking back to a better time when the Rags won everything and spent nothing! Horrible turd of a man.
 
The only thing that would get them on our side (sky in particular) would be if we hired twitcher or bfs as manager.
 
The culture of our owner is surely reflected by the way our PR presents City ?
If he is happy then maybe we should accept that we are not the ones who funded the investment in our great club.

As Marvin said we are witnessing a radical change in the way we discuss football and the papers together with the dedicated sports TV channels are having to desperately fight for their lives and come to terms with the fact that the customer is king so forget all this fairness crap we need circulation in whatever form it takes so give our customers what they want and forget trying to educate them with balanced reporting.

Our owner may actually be laughing at their antics because he more than anyone may be at the forefront of this change funding University projects and maybe threatening the media with change in much the way as he threatened the G14 by entering the football sector.
 
TonyM said:
Some people are scum because they choose scummy jobs. They can pretend that they are loving fathers etc but deep down they know they are not just in it to feed the kids, they know they enjoy causing misery.

I put almost all football journalists firmly in this category, all of the paparazzi, most people who raise rents to make others homeless, most people who kick them out, many taxmen, many policemen, many security guys, most politicians, most bankers, etc, etc.

Effin scum!
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This is the post of the year.... Well said bud
 
Just doing my daily catch up of this thread, and noticed the Guardian article copied on page 251.

Apparently we bought Sterling for £49m, but Candlepool bought Firmino "for a price that could rise to £29m".

Mind you, I suppose Candlepool will receive the full amount from us in due course, whereas the initial amount paid for Firmino will be it!
 
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