Media bias against City

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

I don't personally believe in an organised agenda, I just think the UK media in general hate the Muslim owned Manchester City for some reason I can't put my finger on.

Mark my words, this season will see the beginning of a "sterling isn't good enough for England and should be dropped" campaign which will not stop until he has been dropped.

Hopefully you're right.

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

I don't personally believe in an organised agenda, I just think the UK media in general hate the Muslim owned Manchester City for some reason I can't put my finger on.

Mark my words, this season will see the beginning of a "sterling isn't good enough for England and should be dropped" campaign which will not stop until he has been dropped.

In that case he will be fresher when he plays for City and won't have his flare coached out of him by an owl with eight chins.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

In that case he will be fresher when he plays for City and won't have his flare coached out of him by an owl with eight chins.

I agree and personally wouldn't mind seeing him not being picked for England, but the wider context is if this happened what would it do to the lads confidence amd what would it do to our pursuit of players in the future? (Ie: "sign for city and your international career is fucked")

 

[Eds]

@Didsbury Dave do you think there is a media bias or agenda against City? Yes or no will suffice

 

[SilverFox2]

Raheem's difficulty now is that he does not have the same quality of player around him at International level.
This allows the opposition to concentrate on stopping him rather than at City where all defenders are stretched to stop any direction of attack.

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

I agree and personally wouldn't mind seeing him not being picked for England, but the wider context is if this happened what would it do to the lads confidence amd what would it do to our pursuit of players in the future? (Ie: "sign for city and your international career is fucked")

It's up to them, if they want to win titles they will join us if not then they obviously don't have a desire to reach the top which is something that our player recruitment strategy clearly deems necessary.

 

[mad4city]

I've no idea what Collymore did or didn't do, but... whatever he says or didn't say has it's roots in bellendedness and not a bias against Manchester City.

Did you read the passage on Selective Perception in that Wikipedia article that you keep quoting? Because the above attitude might well be offered as a perfect example of it.

I'm not suggesting that the article as a whole isn't relevant to this thread but merely quoting it ad nauseum is not proof of relevance but suggestion.
Of course, we're all biased in our interpretation of the media. That's a given. Equally, every instrument of the media will be biased to a greater or lesser extent in their presentation of the facts (or "facts", is some prefer). That's human nature.
What I'm interested in is how you perceive the very existence of the phenomenon of Hostile Media Effect to be in and of itself conclusive proof that there simply cannot possibly be any bias against City.
Of course it doesn't and it's extremely patronising to suggest that all those who perceive of such bias do so purely because of their blue-tinted specs.
Perhaps some do (in fact, undoubtedly so, I'd suspect) but there are a number of sound commercial reasons that strongly suggest that such a bias exists (demographics, long-standing associations and access to sources (an interview with a dickhead like Dwight Yorke will 'catch more flies' than one with a gent like Paul Lake)).

And if people want to have a moan and a whinge about that bias (perceived or real) what harm?

Still, the Wiki article is worth reading and thanks for sharing it.

 

[The blue phantom]

You ever know a media person laugh at an injury to an England player like Collymore did, for any other club ?

They hate Collymore even more on ragcafe for the grief he has given Ashley Young
I'm pretty sure he's said Karma quite a lot of times when he got injured, which didn't go down to well

Collymore is a ****, but he isn't biased against city...

 

[waspish]

Fatty Shaw was only able to do anything in the game because Sterling covered his arse every time he was stranded too late to get back into position defensively, & kept making runs inside taking defenders away from him so he could get balls in. Then it was Sterling who won the pen which allowed Deadman's Hair to break Baldy Charton's record.

They acknowledged that Sterling put a shift in, but criticised his general play pretty much non stop & still went on about the rags plus Milner as having good games, including giving Smalling motm!

Agree with you about Shaw if you watch the scums game against Swansea when they scored the 2nd goal he was just trotting back from the halfway line when they scored! A decent player at best

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

They hate Collymore even more on ragcafe for the grief he has given Ashley Young
I'm pretty sure he's said Karma quite a lot of times when he got injured, which didn't go down to well

Collymore is a ****, but he isn't biased against city...

You haven't listened to him with Mark Saggers on a Monday then. He takes digs at us at every opportunity and it's basically a pre-requisite that he mentions Sheikh Mansour at least once a show. The last time we won the title he did everything he could to ruin our moment by constantly slagging us off. I think it comes from the fact that he is secretly a united fan. If you follow him on twitter you will know he is always talking about them, every column he writes includes something about them, he sucks off fergie at every opportunity and is always banging on about their history, the class of 92, the record of academy graduates in the first team, how he wishes he could have played for united and every time he is at the swamp seems to be in awe of the "theater of dreams" Maybe he is bitter because we have taken a few of his clubs players: Barry, Milner, Delph to name a few, or maybe he is just bitter about the fact that when Villa were trying to buy success, the Europa League was as far as they got.