Media bias against City

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Prestwich_Blue said:
I have to support @The perfect fumble here as I've heard it first hand. The club will take action where it's warranted but you might not see that action, as most of the time it ends with a sum paid to charity. I think the only time we took legal action was over a story in that filthy rag The Sun, which stated the the Sheikh had given all the players very expensive watches. This was agreed to be factually incorrect and an apology issued:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2665078/Manchester-City-FC-and-Sheikh-Mansour.html


But the instruction from the top is to take a softly-softly approach, rather than do a Baconface and ban everyone in sight. Our approach now is that if someone wants an exclusive interview, then they also have to write something positive about the club, such as the re-development of East Manchester or our community involvement. They've taken great trouble to get some influential journalists on-side but people like Jackson and Herbert, who act as though they're in the pay of the rag PR team, are clearly not interested. We also can't fight the fact that a story about the rags will get 6 or 7 times the hits that an identical story about us would get.

Let's remember that our owners are used to a local media which is respectful and generally uncritical. Getting used to a press corps that seemingly goes out of its way to distort stuff for its own purposes has taken some adjustment but that's their strategy.
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If this situation is absolutely fine with the owners and is part of their business as usual commercial / media strategy then, as fans - let's close this thread because it is pointless. If this is what our owners wish for us fans to accept and tolerate for the long term club gain then, who are we to complain. We merely buy their merchandise and cheer the team on as required.

I am lost for more words on this matter...
 
manimanc said:
I emailed Steven Howard a few years ago after he written some tripe about us, I told him he was a clueless bitter prick who knew nothing about my club and should check his facts before he has a hissy fit about us.
To be fair he got back to me going on how he'd seen many sporting events over the years and that us winning the league wasn't that big a deal after all the money we'd spent. I just emailed him back with a picture of stan laurel crying with the words 'you....bitter crap journalist. ....'
He came back with all the usual bought the league, where was you when you was shit, utd are streets ahead of you...etc etc etc.....
I didn't respond ....he didn't deserve a reply.
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He's got loads of previous. The rag's charity shield win against us was, without any actual clarification, described by him in one of his c*nt editorials as "a victory for the good guys, a victory for football", and I seem to remember another sneering tirade back in 2011 or 2012 describing Ya Ya and Spanish Dave as "B listers".....right before we went and won the league. He really is a spectacular bellend and it speaks volumes for the industry that a man so phenomenally untalented and downright thick could rise to the position of sports editor of the nation's biggest selling paper. Unbelievable Jeff
 
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