The way i've seen it for years is that the the media pander to the Rags and the Dippers... they're the two most supported teams, and probably found, through marketing, that their plastic, gloryhunting fans at home and abroad make up a disporportionate number of their audience. They know that positive articles about their two darling clubs garner more interaction - be it viewers, subscribers or clicks on social media – similarly, negative articles about City appeal to the Red shirts too, whereas positvie City news isn't as big or a draw. The British media have nailed their colours to the mast.
However, for me this has only highlighted their short-sightedness... whilst they busily carry on felating the Red shirts and their fans, City have been winning trophy after trophy – we've become a financial juggernaut because of the winning, we were recently told that we were the most viewed team in the USA (a lucrative market the PL would love to exploit more) and the City v Arsenal game was the most watched PL game ever... Last year we were 4th in the most searched for teams on the web... Also, listen to foreign commentaries of our games – the emotion and excitement when we score puts our broadcasters to shame, and our football is regarded highly around the world – In Ian Cheeseman's Real Madrid video the Spanish journalist he interviewd at half time said "Manchester City plays beautiful football" ...funny how our media present a different point of view there!