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Not entirely sure to what you referring. Is the "snippet" the safe standing story, or something else? Because the safe standing story is in today's MEN as well as online - I passed it on to our news desk yesterday, although I suspect they were already aware

It's also amazing how certain posters demand proof that there are United fans who think we are anti-United and pro-City, and when I provide it, with minimal effort, it gets ignored, as if it never happened. Yet more proof that the "MUEN" brigade only see what they want to see, and hear what they...

I agree over the Boateng picture - it was silly, and I have made my point to the person responsible. I still think that on the tourism story, you are agonising over something trivial. I have gone out on a limb to be supportive of City over the past three or four years, but it ius amazing how...

No it doesn't. Yet again you are completely wrong. If this happens "quite often" you won't have any difficulty finding a single instance, will you? Or are you just making stuff up now, as well as talking from a position of sheer ignorance?

Yet again, you talk utter bollocks, and libellous bollocks at that. You give me one instance where I have cut and pasted from another media outlet. You claimed earlier you are a journalist. I find that very hard to believe, given your level of ignorance about the way newspapers operate. I have...

You are describing the official website, not a newspaper. There are other fans who think we are too close to United/City and don't criticise enough. Criticism is healthy if it is valid and constructive, and we always try to do that. But the slant of the paper is definitely towards our local...

Yes you can, it's just at the back of the lower tier of Colin Bell stand

If you think that we don't carry positive articles about United and City, you must never look at the paper or the website, or you are just so one-eyed that you can only see the negatives (which are very much a minority) Did you say in an earlier post that you are a journalist?

"Simpletons" was a reference to one or two posters, earlier in this thread, who just talked utter nonsense. It was not a reference to the forum as a whole, by any means. If I thought that, I wouldn't bother coming on here in the first place. I wasn't referring to you, either, even though you...

Don't think this is true either, jrb. The MEN is these days, I reckon, closer to City than any national media. The strained times were due to the people in charge at both City and the MEN - since that changed, at both places, we have established a relationship more like the old days, when City...

Reasonably argued viewpoint, Matty, but still flawed. To be honest, you give us too much credit for being Machiavellian! We don't set out to alienate anyone, although sometimes our articles do upset both clubs, and the supporters of both clubs. The bottom line is that we simply set out to cover...

As others have said, I haven't really got the time, or the inclination, to trawl for examples, but a 5-minute google search threw these up immediately: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.afootballforum.com/forum/index.php?/topic/67401-manchester-evening-blues/"...

I have no idea why that picture was chosen - and this is the first I have seen of it. I am not trying to defend it, but I do refute the suggestion that it is evidence of some kind of anti-City agenda. I haven't got time to do it, but I suspect if you trawl through the Utd section, you could find...

I know the bounds of your ignorance because it shines through every line you have written - I don't need to know you to see that. I am employed to write articles, and if I spent my time running around making sure that every picture caption was perfect, that I approved of every headline, and...

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. I am saying that my opinion on the way the article was written, and the reasons behind it, holds more insight, because I know the person involved, and I know how newspapers operate. You don't, and that is not a reflection on you. Do you think...

Do they? I have never heard a single Red use that argument, and I have lived my whole life in and around them, including 95 per cent of my family. However, I have heard, on a million occasions, Utd fans berating us for being pro-City and anti-United. Have you ever considered the idea that...

Right, so how many people, do you think, went away from that article with the notion that United scored more than 3, or that City scored less than 7? Unless there are people out there with IQs in single figures, I would suggest there are none. So what do you think the headline writer's...

Well, I'm not quite sure what else I can do on that score, because I frequently fight City's corner on all kinds of issues. The trouble is that if I write a dozen positive articles, it barely makes a ripple. Then Dianne Bourne has a bit of fun with a diary story, and the vengeful hounds of Blue...

Of course you are entitled to your opinion, and I am entitled to mine, it is just that mine holds more weight because I actually understand the business in which I work, and you clearly don't. If I was to proffer an opinion on your profession, I am certain it would not be as knowledgeable or...

I'll ask you the same question - if your brief, as it was for the website person, to write an article which briefly covered the football events of BOTH Manchester clubs, what would your headline be. This was not on the City site, or the United site, but on the main football section, which people...