Media bias for FourFourTwo

Lucky Toma said:
Mods please merge if you feel its warranted (and sorry for the mither if so)

I've been asked by FourFourTwo to write about the media bias against City. Got the BT Sport and BBC angle nailed down but opening it up for newspaper bias.

Won't be able to name individual journalists but any stories that have particularly stood out in recent times? Any newspapers that are worst offenders than others?

All contributions welcome. Promised them it wont be 'ranty' but have free reign apart from that and really want to put together a persuasive case to illustrate the snidey crap we have to put up with.
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Excellent article. Perfect balance.
 
Shaelumstash said:
Please, please mention the guy off Sunday Supplement a few years ago that was exasperated that we were psying 24m for Yaya Toure. I'm sure the video is called "hate filled bile" or something similar.

There was an excellent Mark Ogden peice on here a few weeks ago about the "diabolical" decision to sack Mark Hughes.

The worst thing I've personally seen was the guy in the Mirror, think he was called McDonnell, before the Everton semi at home who absolutely slaughtered us for not selling out, having players "beg" for fans to come, only for us to sell out a few hours later.

There was numerous examples before The Shite played Leicester where the price of Leicester's squad was compared with City's, despite the Shite's costing more.

There was the fact most of the nationals didn't bother to carry any story about City prior to the Real Madrid semi, but then all absolutely slaughtered us the day after when we'd lost.

The best example to prove there is something in it is the Guardiola story. Everyone in football knew he was coming to City. Every fan, player, pundit and journalist knew it. Yet all the papers dragged it on for weeks linking him with United because that story gets more clicks.

The papers now have a conflict of interest. They are supposed to report the truth, but the truth doesn't generate the same amount of clicks and therefore revenue as a story that is bollocks that involved United or Liverpool, so they report the bollocks story that involves United or Liverpool.

Also a bad story about City generates more clicks than a positive one. That's obvious if you look on the comments section of an article on the Daily Mail online for example. A positive City story will generate a couple of dozen replies. A negative one will generate replies running in to the hundreds, or sometimes thousands.

That is where the attendance and "Emptyhad" myth comes from. The statistics show we have had a 98% capacity this season. Our increase in attendance is second only to Watford in percentage terms, and they were coming back from a promotion. Our average attendance of 53k plus, which is nearly 10k more than Liverpool have ever managed in their entire history.

Micky Quinn on Talksport regularly talked about the "empty seats" at the Etihad. He's an ardent Liverpool fan, I wish someone would point out that however many empty ones we've had, we've had 10k more full ones this season than Liverpool have ever had in their entire history.

How about the fact Sergio Aguero has never made the football writers team of the year?

How about the fact David Silva has never won football writers player of the year?

How about the fact Mancini and Pellegrini are the only two title winning managers not to win manager of the year in recent memory?

How about the fact all of the press are now reporting that Guardiola failed at Bayern because he took over a CL winning team and didn't win it himself. This despite the fact that no other manager in history has taken over from a CL winning manager and gone on to win the competition himself with the same club. Except Guardiola at Barca. Interestingly, the second best record in such circumstances is getting to the semi final. Funnily enough, also Pep Guardiola at Bayern. 3 times.

He has an 82% win percentage at Bayern. The best in their history. Jupp Heynkes was 62%. They've just won the league for the 4th time on the spin for the first time in their history.

Guardiola has reached 7 CL semi finals in 7 years. It took Alec Fergurson 26 years to reach 7 CL semi finals. Jose Mourinho 14 years. And yet Guardiola is getting reported as a failure at Bayern. I wonder if the press would be so unkind if he was arriving at Old Trafford this summer?

How about Ian Darke saying in minute 2 of our CL game with PSG that the City fans were right behind the team from the start singing songs and creating a "wall of noise" and then Rio Ferdinand after the match saying the first chant was on 78 minutes?

I don't think there is a grand conspiracy to bring City down, that would be ridiculous. But the national press and media have a vested interest to report negatively about City and positively about our rivals. It's market forces. Negativity about City generates them more revenue than positive stories, so they are bound to report about us negatively. They want to keep themselves in a job.
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This is quite possibly the best post I've ever had the pleasure to read, I doff my cap in your general direction.
 
first time that ive seen that sunday supplement or whatever it is. Boiling is an understatement. cant believe the level of shite that came out especially the knobhead from the mirror (i think).
by the way the article is top class.
 
Great article and comments but that Sunday Supplement clip was incredible. Smith and Beesley were spouting utter bile at City- and the presenter was just as bad letting them get away with it.
Fuck them come on blues do it on Sunday and fuck the shitheads right off
 
I enjoyed that. Good read. Probably should have added a link to this thread so the other points could have been seen too
 
Leaving aside the general venom of The Sunday Supplement and the displeasure with which they show for spending which whilst not a view I support I can understand (despite one of them supporting Chelsea) The specifics that got me in no particular order are.

The fact one of them suggested implosion would be good. Sounds like he wanted us to do a Portsmouth. Wanting that to happen to any club regardless of there issues is very very immoral. Not least because of the affect it would have non fans and normal workers.

They stated wrongly that Mancini was in the stands.

They said we would not win anything under him haha.

They wrongly said they said we said Kaka bottled it when what we said was AC did in fact I think you could say both did certainly AC did it was a fact. AC Bottled when they saw the fans reaction. Kaka only wanted to talk about money we wanted to work out how to make the deal pay and have kaka academies etc He probably also bottled it because of the fans. Perhaps we should not have said it but then I would argue the truth should be said.

They criticesed the poster we made but they did there jobs very very well

They said we had no structure look at our structure now
 
BT at it again tonight – there's a show on there tonight "Barclays Premier League Review", the write up for this show is...

A look ahead to this season's final round of games as Man Utd look to pip Man City to fourth spot. Elsewhere, Tottenham aim to finish above Arsenal for the first time since 1995.

So we only need draw to get 4th, yet they report it as the Rags pipping us to it – whereas it should have read "Man City look to secure the fourth spot ahead of their rivals Man Utd."

It may sound petty, but the way the programme write-up is worded says it all for me!
 
dario2739 said:
BT at it again tonight – there's a show on there tonight "Barclays Premier League Review", the write up for this show is...

A look ahead to this season's final round of games as Man Utd look to pip Man City to fourth spot. Elsewhere, Tottenham aim to finish above Arsenal for the first time since 1995.

So we only need draw to get 4th, yet they report it as the Rags pipping us to it – whereas it should have read "Man City look to secure the fourth spot ahead of their rivals Man Utd."

It may sound petty, but the way the programme write-up is worded says it all for me!
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Damn right, this is on the BBC sports page previewing our game on Sunday....

MOTD COMMENTATOR'S NOTES
Steve Wilson: "So farewell Manuel Pellegrini - hair greyed, cheeks furrowed, eyes a little sad.

"City fans dubbed him 'This Charming Man', though actually 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' could have been his song; despite the name, Manuel didn't grin very often.

"He did win trophies - becoming only the second City manager to win two in one season - but the League Cup doesn't really float their boat in Abu Dhabi or east Manchester. Pellegrini looked like he was holding the fort for Guardiola long before confirmation came.
 
johnmc said:
Tin foil hats needed aplenty
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They're all out to get us....

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The thing I always remember is when we were first taken over, The Sun ran a story about the city team being given diamond Rolex watches - or gold or something similar.
It was a large 1/2 or maybe even a full page article.

Later on they were forced to print a retraction as it was a total and utter fabrication but the retraction was something daft like 1sq CM.

I swear on my life - I never bought a single newspaper ever again.
 
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