Media coverage 2018/19

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Matthew Syed.

Arrogant, self centered man who admitted to cheating to win when he played ping pong. Sucked the cock of team sky cycling. Defending them against their doping allegations at every opportunity until the jiffy bags in Parliament arrived.

As credible as Phil Jones winning worlds sexiest man.

Cheers pal.

 

[chemicalboy99]

The BBC report was on the game was weird.
It opened with a quick summary of the goals and then this, City, who came from behind in the first leg in Germany to win 3-2, were knocked out in the quarter-finals of last year's competition by Liverpool and have never won the Champions League.

It was written by a scouse hack called Emma Sanders.

Her unbiased twitter feed https://twitter.com/em_sandy?lang=en

McNulty is also a Liverpool fan so due to the unique way the BBC are funded, he's probably doing her.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Yay, Liverpool won so it is a City-FFP news free day.

ycmiu

 

[burning blue soul]

I don't disagree with you on the larger set-up, but I think they are locked into a cycle and have no will to break out.

need clicks => article pro BigFanBase or anti BigFanBaseRival => get clicks => entrench BigFanBase more meaning only BigFanBase is viable for clicks.

It's self-perpetuating, and that is a problem.
Yes they could promote other causes, but I don't think there is much will there (and employing the Social Media Wonk from Utd is likely to entrench that). It seems quite clear that they have an arrangement to promote Utd stories in return for which they are fed Utd stories to promote.

There is still commercial pressure from the government oversight and fixation with value for money (and serving other media companies who want to limit the BBC). Some of the BBC output is dependent on degree of use of the websites, and that constrains what they can do - a big drop in clicks would lead to problems later.

yes, sometimes from a financial pressure point of view, i agree (and to a point i dont have an issue with that). clicks mean good, no clicks mean bad.

however, they are not trying to get more clicks for city and for the bbc as whole, they are trying to get more clicks at the EXPENSE of city. that is their business model. they are using city to help themselves. ALL media outlets are doing this, and maybe the algorithms the faceless lot behind the media scenes use is the industry standard these days. somebody has to be the bad guy, and it looks like we fit the silhouette.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I thought I would compare Liverpool BBC coverage in after beating Bayern to Citys BBC coverage after beating PSG to get to the semi-final.

You can all go see the headlines LFC are getting right now.... "Back in the elite", "Mark of LFC progress", "Liverpool love this competition", "Reds march on"



Here you go, City the day after beating PSG - https://web.archive.org/web/20160413175443/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football

We all know the difference we get to LFC or Utd but ffs it's so stark

 

[MillionMilesAway]

yes, sometimes from a financial pressure point of view, i agree (and to a point i dont have an issue with that). clicks mean good, no clicks mean bad.

however, they are not trying to get more clicks for city and for the bbc as whole, they are trying to get more clicks at the EXPENSE of city. that is their business model. they are using city to help themselves. ALL media outlets are doing this, and maybe the algorithms the faceless lot behind the media scenes use is the industry standard these days. somebody has to be the bad guy, and it looks like we fit the silhouette.

That's really what I meant by Anti-BigFanBaseRival. A good story for Utd fan clicks doesn't have to be pro-Utd, it can be anti-City.

The two big fan bases are generally acknowledged to be Liverpool and Utd.
For both at the moment, City are the big rival.
Ker-ching!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

It was written by a scouse hack called Emma Sanders.

Her unbiased twitter feed https://twitter.com/em_sandy?lang=en

McNulty is also a Liverpool fan so due to the unique way the BBC are funded, he's probably doing her.

Thought McNulty was Everton? I know it's been debated here many times.

Shamoon Hafeez is also Utd.

 

[aguero93:20]

The two big fan bases are generally acknowledged to be Liverpool and Utd.
For both at the moment, City are the big rival.
Ker-ching!

Yet it's a global website and both Arsenal and Chelsea have a bigger global reach than the dippers. We have a similar global reach to them. It's nothing more than bias caused by having a high percentage of dippers and rags among their staff.

 

[burning blue soul]

That's really what I meant by Anti-BigFanBaseRival. A good story for Utd fan clicks doesn't have to be pro-Utd, it can be anti-City.

The two big fan bases are generally acknowledged to be Liverpool and Utd.
For both at the moment, City are the big rival.
Ker-ching!

i agree. they are chasing the largest on-line supporting denominators (gob-shites) in utd and liverpool. another poster (i forget who, ...sorry nameless poster) made a very good point that the liverpool/utd fan base added together dont, in any way, equal in size to the non liverpool/utd supporting fan base of their readership/viewership.

only this tunnel vision approach could be put together by a management team made up mainly of liverpool and utd supporting staff. in the past i didnt notice or take the time to add up the proportion of pundits who were ex liverpool or utd players in the media. this thread has helped me understand its high, as a proportion it feels about 70%. and as another clever (sorry, again) unnamed poster commented, thats media doping!!!

at least some people are waking up to this set up now, including myself.

 

[wolfie1988]

Thought McNulty was Everton? I know it's been debated here many times.

Shamoon Hafeez is also Utd.

Phil McNulty is definitely an Everton fan. You can tell by his despair on Twitter when he's writing about them. Must be hard to separate professionalism with being a fan when you're that frustrated!