Media bias against City

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I find it funny when you hear pundits say a player has only joined us for the money but for example when Stoke sign a player like Shaqiri he is going there because of the lure of playing for Mark Hughes. No you fucking retards, he is going there because Premier League clubs pay the biggest wages in world football.
 
I can't argue against a bias against the club from the print media, some of the bitter stuff I read is incredible. I also tend to find that it's mainly the pundits who have an allegiance with Liverpool are the most disparaging towards us, this is because we have made it a lot harder form to get into the top four, something they this they are entitled to.

However one thing I will argue against is that Sky as a company has some kind of vendetta against us. Every premier league advert they make makes a reference to the AGUEROOO moment, it's played on Sky Sports News every day whenever Aguero is mentioned. I do not believe there pundits are told to not praise us at all, they loved our first title win.
 
reptileegg said:
who goes around accusing City fans of being a United fan? I thought my story was quite funny, I may have exaggerated - I can't remember if all those teams were on the poster (maybe Liverpool or Tottenham were not or something, I think Norwich were) but in scanning it I did not see the City badge and thought it was funny as it's the media (Sky) and they always put Rooney's face ahead of Aguero on posters and stuff. The poster is in the underground bit at Stockport train station.
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I'm just surprised you haven't mentioned floodlights or Curly Watts.
 
Ric said:
Guess what point one of The Telegraph's things we learnt from Stoke City vs Liverpool was?

That "Coutinho is far more important than Sterling ever was", of course.

"His goal here came from nowhere, and there are sure to be a fair few more of them this season. Sterling might not have supplied such magic."

He hasn't even kicked a ball competitively for City yet, but remains the focal point for criticism in games involving other teams. Incredible.
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At some point you would think the clubs press/media relations might step in and tell them to fuck off.

It's getting so blatant ATM I would genuinely consider a block of the British media on our premises until they sort themselves out.

It's gone into overdrive since we signed Sterling.
 
reptileegg said:
who goes around accusing City fans of being a United fan? I thought my story was quite funny, I may have exaggerated - I can't remember if all those teams were on the poster (maybe Liverpool or Tottenham were not or something, I think Norwich were) but in scanning it I did not see the City badge and thought it was funny as it's the media (Sky) and they always put Rooney's face ahead of Aguero on posters and stuff. The poster is in the underground bit at Stockport train station.
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Hmmmm.... getting the train back to London perhaps?
 
reptileegg said:
saw a poster for Sky Sports at Stockport train station and I stopped to look in amusement as it had a few club badges floating around, I am pretty sure it had United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Totenham and a couple of others like Norwich and Newcastle but no City badge :(
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Did it have pictures of Daley Blind and Phil Jones?
 
Benarbia_is_god said:
I can't argue against a bias against the club from the print media, some of the bitter stuff I read is incredible. I also tend to find that it's mainly the pundits who have an allegiance with Liverpool are the most disparaging towards us, this is because we have made it a lot harder form to get into the top four, something they this they are entitled to.

However one thing I will argue against is that Sky as a company has some kind of vendetta against us. Every premier league advert they make makes a reference to the AGUEROOO moment, it's played on Sky Sports News every day whenever Aguero is mentioned. I do not believe there pundits are told to not praise us at all, they loved our first title win.
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Fair enough Sky do still harp back to the Aguerooo moment occasionally (I don't think quite as much as you're suggesting though) but just imagine for a second if it was their pet club the rags that had won the title in such a dramatic fashion and it was, instead, a Rooneeeey moment... I'm sure Sky would now be beaming a constant loop of it on to the surface of the moon for the whole world to gaze in awe at.
 
A classic example, the BBC website leads with:

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini believes £49m summer signing Raheem Sterling, 20, could be worth £100m in the future. (Manchester Evening News)

But the MEN article quoted correctly describes Sterling as a £44m summer signing.

Why doesn't the press office ask them to explain this.
 
dark 'n stormy said:
A classic example, the BBC website leads with:

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini believes £49m summer signing Raheem Sterling, 20, could be worth £100m in the future. (Manchester Evening News)

But the MEN article quoted correctly describes Sterling as a £44m summer signing.

Why doesn't the press office ask them to explain this.
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We've got a press office?
 
dark 'n stormy said:
A classic example, the BBC website leads with:

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini believes £49m summer signing Raheem Sterling, 20, could be worth £100m in the future. (Manchester Evening News)

But the MEN article quoted correctly describes Sterling as a £44m summer signing.

Why doesn't the press office ask them to explain this.
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Perhaps BBC see it as a 'correction' for a provincial mistake ?

Perhaps a comparison between the values printed by the various newspapers owned by Mirror Group would make this more incriminating. MEN compared with others in that Group would be interesting.
 
reptileegg said:
who goes around accusing City fans of being a United fan? I thought my story was quite funny, I may have exaggerated - I can't remember if all those teams were on the poster (maybe Liverpool or Tottenham were not or something, I think Norwich were) but in scanning it I did not see the City badge and thought it was funny as it's the media (Sky) and they always put Rooney's face ahead of Aguero on posters and stuff. The poster is in the underground bit at Stockport train station.
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I'm stood next to a Sky Sports poster covered in badges at Twickenham station. Clubs represented are City (largest and most central), Villa, Bournemouth, West Ham, Palace, Spurs, Everton, Swansea, Watford and Southampton. Sounds like it's luck of the draw.
 
CityStu said:
I'm stood next to a Sky Sports poster covered in badges at Twickenham station. Clubs represented are City (largest and most central), Villa, Bournemouth, West Ham, Palace, Spurs, Everton, Swansea, Watford and Southampton. Sounds like it's luck of the draw.
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haha,sounds like an also rans poster to me :)
 
SilverFox2 said:
Perhaps BBC see it as a 'correction' for a provincial mistake ?

Perhaps a comparison between the values printed by the various newspapers owned by Mirror Group would make this more incriminating. MEN compared with others in that Group would be interesting.
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You may be right and the BBC is just performing a public duty but this was taken from their 'rumours' section where they refer out to other sources. Why refer to a source but then 'correct' one of the figures quoted.
 
peace frog said:
this isn't media bias ,but it is media related.

ssn have just done a comparison on benzema ,Walcott and that big donkey of arsenals ,using football manager stats .W.T.F.
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I think it will be a little more accurate than the skewed views of their pre selected pundits.
Maybe their way of giving an ''Authentic'' look to what even they realise is polarised to interest their main subscribers.

MEN has a prediction for the next 1000 years of results for City cf United based on game play.
 
Just watched a film about Robert Maxwell, who used to insist he was name-checked copiously in The Mirror. However, their circulation went down when he was prominent on the front page. So their analysts obviously had a keen eye for what sold papers and what didn't.

Analysis is even more sophisticated now so it's clear that the media outlets know that negative stories about us, or even negative comments in stories not directly relating to us, have a positive impact on hits and circulation.

Talking about banning people or getting more aggressive with the media simply misses the point. In fact it actually gives them an excuse to be even more negative about us as well as reflecting badly on our owners.

Until we get to the point that we can generate more hits for a positive agenda than we can for a negative one, this is going to be the pattern.
 
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