Media Bias

[stan bowles]

We come from behind to beat Southampton and the media says the cracks are showing, City are lucky, suspect defence etc. United come from behind to beat Southampton and the press big them (and RVP) up like they're world beaters all of a sudden. Will it ever end ?

 

[Sam.]

Agenda.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Oh goodie, another agenda thread.

 

[moomba]

For all the anti agenda hysteria that accompanies these threads I think there is a difference between how United is reported and how we are reported.

Maybe our money increases the expectations of what we should be doing. Maybe there is a fear factor of slagging that we don't have.

Could be the media pandering to the masses, could be that the majority in the press are clueless.

Maybe some in the press do hate, or at the least resent us.

But there is a difference IMO. Doesn't make a difference to run,lose or draw but there is a difference.

 

[becomingparanoid]

It gets worse. A story about a player missing a penalty in an under 21 game when the ball hit the post and the rebound was put in. I do realise that this earth shattering story is only relevant because it was a new city player. Welcome to the view through a magnifying glass Scott.

The media just cannot get over it and never miss a chance to print the negative angle to any story.

 

[mcmanus]

It gets worse. A story about a player missing a penalty in an under 21 game when the ball hit the post and the rebound was put in. I do realise that this earth shattering story is only relevant because it was a new city player. Welcome to the view through a magnifying glass Scott.

The media just cannot get over it and never miss a chance to print the negative angle to any story.

I think you are becoming paranoid.

 

[Rammy Blue]

It all comes back to racism.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

It all comes back to racism.

and Hitler, don't forget Hitler

 

[Citysmith]

What did the bloody Romans ever do for us?

 

[Ducado]

It comes down to this, United have a huge fan base, but they are a very soft fan base, most of them could not find Manchester on a map, put they subscribe to Sky and buy newspapers it's just commercial logic, it sells for them. The nightmare for them is for United to go into a Liverpool like slump (or worse) and the goose that has been laying the golden egg will be gone.

It's annoying but if you do like many people do nowadays and just ignore them, don't buy a paper, don't listen to match analysis etc, etc, or as some people have done get rid of sky and watch from a internet stream