Media bias against City

[BlueAnorak]

Whilst I think there is plenty of lazy ill-considered, and often economically driven, bias out there, and whilst I happily acknowledge that there are a handful of c*nts like Jackson and Ogden, whose raggy bitterness is bottomless, the search for an agenda becomes comical when you start looking for it in red chairs or dodgy refereeing decisions and so forth. So too when you start looking for it not in words but in potential intent. The fact that a large number of hacks may support the rags or the dippers is of no consequence whatsoever, until they start portraying City in a deliberate and unnecessarily bleak light. In this instance, whatever you may speculate the motive to be, a perfectly reasonable prediction has been made by a journalist that City will finish 4th. There is nothing in that statement that constitutes an agenda

No consequence?
You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you really think that doesn't help shape what the journos write. Chasing clicks is the other motive for City bad press, but both clearly set out and define an agenda - ie they do it on purpose for specific reasons.
To say anything else is simply picking a gainsay argument of the sort: "a cloudless daytime sky on Earth is not sky blue"!

I said "no consequence..... until they start portraying City in a negative light". It's perfectly possible to be a rag and comment on City objectively. Gary Bumfluff manages it every week. Not saying he doesn't have a tiny bulge in his trousers when City have lost and he can put the boot in, but his analysis is invariably bang on the money and very fair.

Fair dos. He's one of the very few exceptions though.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

No consequence?
You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you really think that doesn't help shape what the journos write. Chasing clicks is the other motive for City bad press, but both clearly set out and define an agenda - ie they do it on purpose for specific reasons.
To say anything else is simply picking a gainsay argument of the sort: "a cloudless daytime sky on Earth is not sky blue"!

I said "no consequence..... until they start portraying City in a negative light". It's perfectly possible to be a rag and comment on City objectively. Gary Bumfluff manages it every week. Not saying he doesn't have a tiny bulge in his trousers when City have lost and he can put the boot in, but his analysis is invariably bang on the money and very fair.

Fair dos. He's one of the very few exceptions though.

True, although ikkle Mickey Owen seems to have toned down the stupidity and snickering down a bit this year as well!
Dwight Yorke though is still on my list for a violent death

 

[Bill]

I said "no consequence..... until they start portraying City in a negative light". It's perfectly possible to be a rag and comment on City objectively. Gary Bumfluff manages it every week. Not saying he doesn't have a tiny bulge in his trousers when City have lost and he can put the boot in, but his analysis is invariably bang on the money and very fair.

Fair dos. He's one of the very few exceptions though.

True, although ikkle Mickey Owen seems to have toned down the stupidity and snickering down a bit this year as well!
Dwight Yorke though is still on my list for a violent death

along with.

danny mills
crerand
hargreaves
burley.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Fair dos. He's one of the very few exceptions though.

True, although ikkle Mickey Owen seems to have toned down the stupidity and snickering down a bit this year as well!
Dwight Yorke though is still on my list for a violent death

along with.

danny mills
crerand
hargreaves
burley.

Burley's toned it down a bit the last couple of years as well, and I can't say as Hargreaves has ever bothered me. Ironic that the second biggest bell end on the list is the ex-City player. And I'd add Trevor Francis to the list too

 

[Blue Mooner]

True, although ikkle Mickey Owen seems to have toned down the stupidity and snickering down a bit this year as well!
Dwight Yorke though is still on my list for a violent death

along with.

danny mills
crerand
hargreaves
burley.

Burley's toned it down a bit the last couple of years as well, and I can't say as Hargreaves has ever bothered me. Ironic that the second biggest bell end on the list is the ex-City player. And I'd add Trevor Francis to the list too

The Ex-City player, mainly because he bled the club dry on sky high wages for a couple of seasons and City fans rightly hated him for it. Now he gives it us back in spades.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Lee Dixon too. He says he's a blue, but you'd swear to god he's a rag after the shit he constantly spouts about us.

I agree Yorke is the worst though, Him and Scholes, utter wankers the pair of them.

 

[cibaman]

Lee Dixon too. He says he's a blue, but you'd swear to god he's a rag after the shit he constantly spouts about us.

I agree Yorke is the worst though, Him and Scholes, utter wankers the pair of them.

I hadnt picked that up about Dixon. He can be critical but its seemed to me to be fairly benovelent, the criticism you might expect from a grumpy fan. Whereas with Mills he clearly does have an agenda against the club based on his history and "relationship" with the fans. He dosesnt bother to dispute it, once when a fellow commentator said to him "City fans think you dont like them" he replied "They dont like me, either"

 

[SilverFox2]

Lee Dixon too. He says he's a blue, but you'd swear to god he's a rag after the shit he constantly spouts about us.

I agree Yorke is the worst though, Him and Scholes, utter wankers the pair of them.

I hadnt picked that up about Dixon. He can be critical but its seemed to me to be fairly benovelent, the criticism you might expect from a grumpy fan. Whereas with Mills he clearly does have an agenda against the club based on his history and "relationship" with the fans. He dosesnt bother to dispute it, once when a fellow commentator said to him "City fans think you dont like them" he replied "They dont like me, either"

As an ex footballer surely this is now Lee's day job ?

Not sure how long his career would last if he consistently expressed a pro City point of view.

Ex United and Liverpool players are prominent as pundits because they appeal to more people rather than because they are actually good at the job, otherwise why select ex players to pontificate via the media ?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

From the ever reliable Nick Harris in his survey of PL clubs' finances in The Mail.

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MAN CITY: Still losing money despite the new TV deal and commercial income from the Middle East. Buys like £42.5m flop Eliawuim Mangala won't help

MAN UTD: Debt still lingers from Glazer takeover but huge income still allows marquee signings like £59.7m Angel Di Maria

 

[Manchester_lalala]

From the ever reliable Nick Harris in his survey of PL clubs' finances in The Mail.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3016432/Club-club-guide-Premier-League-s-financial-health.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ealth.html</a>

MAN CITY: Still losing money despite the new TV deal and commercial income from the Middle East. Buys like £42.5m flop Eliawuim Mangala won't help

MAN UTD: Debt still lingers from Glazer takeover but huge income still allows marquee signings like £59.7m Angel Di Maria

Chelsea's is the best one.