Media bias against City

[Rolee]

Yes I do agree that we're often being overlooked by the media but this time I don't think that we're being treated unfair. Which City player(s) do you think deserves to be in this team?

Edit: Didn't Kompany win POTS 2011/12?

It may well be fair but what's annoying is they'd be just as quick to call us a one man team despite that one man not being in their best XI, then you consider we're top of the league and it starts to become absurd.

 

[George Hannah]

But the thread is called Media Bias against City. If we turn it into media bias pro United the server will crash....
Maybe I don't have the same attachment to the club as you? That must be it, well done. What I do know, is that if I see an article about the rags in a paper or online, I wouldn't even read it, let alone copy it and paste into a City forum.

it pains me to see blues feuding

 

[Clercqs]

As has Kolorov. He's actually been in a couple of teams of the year I've seen so far from various journalists/media.

I might be biased though...

I think he started the season brilliantly but has been poor since september really. Maybe because of fatigue, but he has been to bad defensive to deserve to be in a team like this imo.

 

[KenTheLandlord]

Yes I do agree that we're often being overlooked by the media but this time I don't think that we're being treated unfair. Which City player(s) do you think deserves to be in this team?

Edit: Didn't Kompany win POTS 2011/12?

No van Persie won the PFA and FWA awards.
Pardew won Manager of the Season
Kyle Walker was considered better than Kun Aguero for the young player.

City did actually win the league.

 

[George Hannah]

I think he started the season brilliantly but has been poor since september really. Maybe because of fatigue, but he has been to bad defensive to deserve to be in a team like this imo.

True, his rockets need refuelling

 

[Phil1]

He had a fantastic start, fell away for a couple of weeks then returned to form the last couple of games. Overall he's been superb.
I doubt Montreal has been flawless from day one.
Anyway, it's neither here nor there in the grand scheme of things.
Kompany missing out is the biggest head scratcher in that team. He'd have a perfect record had Hart not dropped that clanger against Norwich.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

What you're doing here is taking a "pro United" story, of which there are many, and conflating it into meaning it's anti City. This is one of the more fundamental nonsenses of this thread. It's surely time for City fans to stop playing the victims and embrace the fact that we're the relatively new kids on the block (in terms of the Premier League) and the lazy journalists, who've been on easy street for years, don't like it. They've cultivated their relationships for years, with no sustained challenge to the status quo, and they're on the defensive. Most of them don't have either the wit or imagination to embrace change (and, to be fair to them, change is not a concept that plays easily to many people) so they spout what they know and what is received wisdom about what the proper order of things is. People can either rail against the media or do what I, and lots of others, do and not give a shit about what 'they' say. This has always worked for me.

It is a perfectly natural human reaction to robustly respond to criticism, especially when it is grossly unfair and inequitable, to something people deeply care about. I'm not saying that's how everyone does or should react, but it cannot be said to be an unusual or unreasonable way to respond. I'm not saying it makes you less of a blue for it not affecting you like that, but to expect others, with entirely different dispositions to you, to react in the same way as you, is wholly unrealistic and unfair.

 

[Why Always Ste]

I don't see much of this on BlueMoon and I'm putting it down to possibly our core match attending fan base predominantly being White, Middle-aged Men, and I'm referring to the Media Bias being down to hatred of our owners Nationality/Ethnicity and how in general English Football has had Racial issues for many years.... The same could be said about many other westernised sports to be fair.
NFL having to implement that "Rooney Rule" because of the lack of non-whites being selected for coaching roles.
The same occurs here.... You could count on one hand the amount of non-white football managers in the English Leagues.
I personally don't think our club would be treated as badly in the media if it was owned by The Rothschild Family.

Constant references to our owners Ethnicity in the press is a clear indication.
When talking about Liverpool's owners or Rags, Arsenal, it's rarely ever mentioned as the main emphasis on the story.
They'll show teatowel wearing parodies and so on when mentioning Mansour.

In fairness they do go on about Abramovich being Russian more often than not.
I see this down to our countries issues with Russia politically.

If Mansour was white And Christian they'd be wanking over City constantly like the rags.

 

[The perfect fumble]

I don't see much of this on BlueMoon and I'm putting it down to possibly our core match attending fan base predominantly being White, Middle-aged Men, and I'm referring to the Media Bias being down to hatred of our owners Nationality/Ethnicity and how in general English Football has had Racial issues for many years.... The same could be said about many other westernised sports to be fair.
NFL having to implement that "Rooney Rule" because of the lack of non-whites being selected for coaching roles.
The same occurs here.... You could count on one hand the amount of non-white football managers in the English Leagues.
I personally don't think our club would be treated as badly in the media if it was owned by The Rothschild Family.

Constant references to our owners Ethnicity in the press is a clear indication.
When talking about Liverpool's owners or Rags, Arsenal, it's rarely ever mentioned as the main emphasis on the story.
They'll show teatowel wearing parodies and so on when mentioning Mansour.

In fairness they do go on about Abramovich being Russian more often than not.
I see this down to our countries issues with Russia politically.

If Mansour was white And Christian they'd be wanking over City constantly like the rags.

"In fairness they do go on about Abramovich being Russian more often than not."

Fairness? Not really, there's a diference.

While agreeing with the core of your post, if not all of it, you're right on the ethnicity tag in relation to our owner, but there is a not so subtle difference. When Abramovich is referred to it is always as Russian....Russian billionaire, Russian oligarch etc that's his nationality. When Sheik Mansour is referenced, it's always to his ethnicity as in "Arab owned Man City".

So while Liverpool and Utd are American owned, City is not Emirati owned, but Arab owned.

With Arab owned it invites all sorts prejudices that we know exist below the surface with a lot of people.

Imagine how incongruous it would be if a club were described as African American owned? People would say....what's his ethnicity got to do with it?

Russia has, believe it or not 185 ethnic group! Russians are often described as an ethnic group in their own right, but Abramovich is most likely of Slavic origin, he was born in Saratov on the banks of the Volga River. When he is referred to as Russian it is to denote his nationality, from whence he came, not his ethnic grouping, but like who cares? it shouldn't matter right? Well it seems to with our owner.

PS: Just found out Abramovich is Jewish. He's Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Russia, interesting, but inconsequential to his ownership, or anything else for that matter.

Jewishness is considered an ethnic grouping in many parts of the world, Russia included, though here in the UK we take a more nuanced view, but could you imagine if the media referred to Chelsea as "Jewish owned"!.....Kaboom!

PPS: And of course Levy at Spurs is Jewish, is that a religion or an ethnicity? His nationality is British...Waffle, Dither and Fudge!!......Why should anyone care?! It doesn't matter, at least it shouldn't.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

It is a perfectly natural human reaction to robustly respond to criticism, especially when it is grossly unfair and inequitable, to something people deeply care about. I'm not saying that's how everyone does or should react, but it cannot be said to be an unusual or unreasonable way to respond. I'm not saying it makes you less of a blue for it not affecting you like that, but to expect others, with entirely different dispositions to you, to react in the same way as you, is wholly unrealistic and unfair.

I couldn't agree more and people should react to criticism, whether real or perceived, however they see fit. Where I take issue is when people actively seek out that criticism in order to then be affronted by it. Personally, I can't see the point of worrying about things I am powerless to change.
Let's assume there is a media plan to slight City at every turn, does it matter? To assume that any journalists (but especially red tops) are "reporters of truth" is fanciful, at best. They are almost all, "purveyors of opinion" and therefore, facts seldom get in the way. The media do this on every subject under the sun, always have and always will. Journalists? Fuck 'em all,I say.