Media bias against City

[MillionMilesAway]

The guardian champs league review......we are mentioned twice. Once in regards to Negredo as a former player of Manchester City in a piece about Gary Neville and once in they're listing of who finished first/second in their groups. Other than that you would never know we even played. No mention in their list of "for further reading" articles, nothing.

We're like the fans of the invisible team...

 

[CelesteItis]

Try reading the Guardian write up by Jamie Jackson. It ends at the 65 th minute.

Aye, the **** can't even tell the goals. Scum roach was suffering that got lost fer feckin werds with the blues results doblegating Munched Gladback and the pain in his red arse at Wolfsborough.

BTW, would like those wolfiegerms in the r16.

 

[Feed the Elk]

i enjoy listening to the Guardian podcast for it's witty banter and broad, unbiased analysis of all Premier teams - they tend to focus more on the bigger teams but in tonight's podcast, in their review of the Champs league games, Arsenal and Chelsea dominated the early exchanges and discussion followed by a lengthy review of the rags failure (including how van gal is basically clueless and has been for a while), then onto City. Possibly given 30 seconds of praise but they also highlighted, fairly, how poor we were for the first 60 minutes before quickly moving on to Swansea who we have next and a lengthy discussion of the sacking of the Monk and how it will be a difficult game for us at the weekend after the Stoke debacle.
Whist this is all fair comment, i thought it disappointing that they didn't even pass comment on how much of an achievement it is for us to finish top in light of the injuries we have, the drama, or how we could now go further in the competition.
Right, i'll go and try and get that chip removed from my shoulder

 

[Shirley]

Surely its not all down to click bait, I reckon the media are blanking us because of the old theory "any publicity is good publicity".
In my cynical opinion!

 

[HelloCity]

The media agenda has evolved in recent times.

Whereas previously it was to bombard the readers with negativity about the club, it has now moved towards trying to ignore us and keep us out of the limelight.

 

[ROCKET80]

i enjoy listening to the Guardian podcast for it's witty banter and broad, unbiased analysis of all Premier teams - they tend to focus more on the bigger teams

You get less bias out of the Football Ramble than the Guardian Football Podcast (more insightful comments about the recent games too). The Guardian Podcast is a bag of shite, Barry Glendenning annoys the living piss out of me and constantly refers to City's spending, they all admit to having seen none of a game then proceed to give their opinions on it anyway.

They heavily focus on the old Sky 4 and don't give a shit about anyone else and mock listeners who have the audacity to complain/ask them to talk about any other club.

I listen to podcasts about other sports and football is so far behind them in terms of being all teams being covered with unbiased and proper analysis its laughable.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Fucking shameful thing for a football journalist to write. Someone paid money to report on the game penning such a thing could only do so if his mind was utterly warped towards the game, completely beyond redemption.

He is basically mocking Rag fans whilst he gets paid to laugh at them. It must be a sad time to be a Rag when some of us 'bitters' are in some way feeling sorry for their seemingly endless misery. Patronising them is becoming a strangely satisfying habit. Oh the Karma...

Ex-bitters feeling sorry for apprentice bitters, mate ;-)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The Guardian Podcast is a bag of shite, Barry Glendenning annoys the living piss out of me and constantly refers to City's spending.

The frequency with which someone refers to our spending is in direct correlation with the pain they're feeling at our rise. It's a beautiful sound.

 

[andyhinch]

The frequency with which someone refers to our spending is in direct correlation with the pain they're feeling at our rise. It's a beautiful sound.

Drink it in :-) you going tomorrow mate

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Drink it in :-) you going tomorrow mate

Yes, but I'm straight in and out. Got an insane amount of work to do this weekend.

 

[andyhinch]

Yes, but I'm straight in and out. Got an insane amount of work to do this weekend.

Straight in and out you say, sounds like my sex life :-)

 

[Plain Speaking]

The BBC sports feed newspaper reviewers let their allegiances show saying "this is more like it..." At reports in The Times that the rags are trying to bring in the likes of Ronaldo, Bale, Neymar, Lewandowski etc...Yawn...

 

[eversince 76]

The BBC sports feed newspaper reviewers let their allegiances show saying "this is more like it..." At reports in The Times that the rags are trying to bring in the likes of Ronaldo, Bale, Neymar, Lewandowski etc...Yawn...

Just the usual way of keeping the clickers on the internet happy. It happens after every disappointment and they have had quite a few lately. For them lot it's all about getting the clicks in. And tbh, I prefer they (rags and media) focus on the clicks and stories to provides this, rather than try and hold the slide. To me that lot still seems asleep while we have overtaken them in so many areas and keep moving foreward quicker by the minute.

 

[cibaman]

The BBC sports feed newspaper reviewers let their allegiances show saying "this is more like it..." At reports in The Times that the rags are trying to bring in the likes of Ronaldo, Bale, Neymar, Lewandowski etc...Yawn...

I think it also demonstrates that United are on a media offensive. Since they were knocked out of the CL there have been a glut of stories similar to this that have clearly been put out by the club to try to placate their fans.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I've always been very unwilling to subscribe to the agenda theory — I just don't believe in that kind of thing — but this, from the BBC website, really burns me:

"Of the Premier League's four contenders, only Manchester United failed to make it through, suffering a heartbreaking exit against Wolfsburg on Tuesday night."

Now why the fuck is it "heartbreaking"? Would they have written that about City? Or even Arsenal or Chelsea?

 

[ballinio]

I think it also demonstrates that United are on a media offensive. Since they were knocked out of the CL there have been a glut of stories similar to this that have clearly been put out by the club to try to placate their fans.

Remember when we beat them 6.1 the day after the MUEN ran a feature " ten things that Utd fans should be happy about" or something similar, they're like a political party trying to bury bad news so their delicate fans don't have to deal with realities, every time they get beaten the media set about building their damaged egos with fantasies & bullshit. It's pathetic.

 

[Aytoun]

Invisible City reading another fawning article today about the rags, pushing for giggs to be made manager - yes please - saying he has had to watch on whilst Real Madrid, Bayern, Barca & even PSG have pulled away from the rags.
Very often, it is what is not said that gives the game away.

 

[domalino]

i enjoy listening to the Guardian podcast for it's witty banter and broad, unbiased analysis of all Premier teams - they tend to focus more on the bigger teams but in tonight's podcast, in their review of the Champs league games, Arsenal and Chelsea dominated the early exchanges and discussion followed by a lengthy review of the rags failure (including how van gal is basically clueless and has been for a while), then onto City. Possibly given 30 seconds of praise but they also highlighted, fairly, how poor we were for the first 60 minutes before quickly moving on to Swansea who we have next and a lengthy discussion of the sacking of the Monk and how it will be a difficult game for us at the weekend after the Stoke debacle.
Whist this is all fair comment, i thought it disappointing that they didn't even pass comment on how much of an achievement it is for us to finish top in light of the injuries we have, the drama, or how we could now go further in the competition.
Right, i'll go and try and get that chip removed from my shoulder

Until about a month a go I used to really like the football weekly podcast but I went to one of their live shows in London and it ruined it for me. The panel was Sean Ingles, Richardson, Ronay, Steinburg. It was the day of the china deal and it was clear from their discussion on the topic that they have nothing but sheer contempt for our club.

They make a big deal of how they can say more than they are allowed to on the podcast and it became apparent that without an editor they can speak what they actually think, not what they have to write in order to come across as not biased.

Lots of talk about how we're ruining football and Barney Ronay openly said he hoped everything failed and it collapsed. It was in London so I expected a certain amount of pandering but - and it's hard to express this without sounding soft - the tone was really quite mean and not at all banter-y like I'd expected and am used to from being a City fan moved down south.

It was like when your idiot rag friend starts mouthing off bullshit about the Etihad deal or oil money at the pub, but instead of being able to put him in his place, you're stuck in an audience with 500 idiots lapping it up and even worse, you fucking paid to go!

On top of that I actually thought it was actually an awful event. Like a very boring episode of the podcast with an hour of them patting themselves on the back for making such a popular podcast and Richardson telling stories about all the footballers he's friends with - usually ending with a promise to tell the rest of the panel the juicier bits backstage.

If I had to describe the whole thing in one word it would be...smug. They're all really smug and the following of the podcast seems to have gone to their heads, and now they think they are pundits giving out insight instead of reporters.

I've been listening still, but it's ruined for me. They made a joke about not talking us up yesterday, the "You might expect us to talk about City now, but we're not.." one. Before I'd have taken it as a joke, but having seen their attitudes in person, it's hard to take it as a harmless transition into talking about Gent.

A real shame because I've enjoyed the pod for about 2 years and I also can't really trust anything I read on their website anymore, knowing the opinions of the people writing them.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I met Jonathan Wilson at an event in Manchester back in September and he had a real nasty go at Pellegrini (can't recall off the top of my head what it was about but someone else in the media had said something similar a few days earlier) and we had a heated but polite discussion about this afterwards. I said it was completely out of order to say something like that and he claimed MP asked for it, having supposedly made a sarky comment about the press. My response was "Well you never give him any credit, always have a go at him personally, speculating about his job constantly and generally not applying the same standards to other managers (Mourinho & LVG being prime examples). Mayvbe he occasionally gets a bit fed up of that and decided to have a pop back at people he thinks are constantly sabotaging him and his club.

The Guardian have a real downer on us generally, as proven by the fact that they continue to let Jamie Jack-off write about us.

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

Until about a month a go I used to really like the football weekly podcast but I went to one of their live shows in London and it ruined it for me. The panel was Sean Ingles, Richardson, Ronay, Steinburg. It was the day of the china deal and it was clear from their discussion on the topic that they have nothing but sheer contempt for our club.

They make a big deal of how they can say more than they are allowed to on the podcast and it became apparent that without an editor they can speak what they actually think, not what they have to write in order to come across as not biased.

Lots of talk about how we're ruining football and Barney Ronay openly said he hoped everything failed and it collapsed. It was in London so I expected a certain amount of pandering but - and it's hard to express this without sounding soft - the tone was really quite mean and not at all banter-y like I'd expected and am used to from being a City fan moved down south.

It was like when your idiot rag friend starts mouthing off bullshit about the Etihad deal or oil money at the pub, but instead of being able to put him in his place, you're stuck in an audience with 500 idiots lapping it up and even worse, you fucking paid to go!

On top of that I actually thought it was actually an awful event. Like a very boring episode of the podcast with an hour of them patting themselves on the back for making such a popular podcast and Richardson telling stories about all the footballers he's friends with - usually ending with a promise to tell the rest of the panel the juicier bits backstage.

If I had to describe the whole thing in one word it would be...smug. They're all really smug and the following of the podcast seems to have gone to their heads, and now they think they are pundits giving out insight instead of reporters.

I've been listening still, but it's ruined for me. They made a joke about not talking us up yesterday, the "You might expect us to talk about City now, but we're not.." one. Before I'd have taken it as a joke, but having seen their attitudes in person, it's hard to take it as a harmless transition into talking about Gent.

A real shame because I've enjoyed the pod for about 2 years and I also can't really trust anything I read on their website anymore, knowing the opinions of the people writing them.

Did you manage to throw a challenge in mate? Suppose it's difficult when you're surrounded by people who are lapping it up.