Media discussion - 2024/25

[bobbyowenquiff]

Nailed it. You can easily quantify it as well.

Look at the engagement on Twitter that Sam Wallace (Telegraph) gets for a story about, say, an England game. Then compare that to the engagement he gets for a City-related story. The latter gets vastly more views and likes, often by a factor of ten or more. They will actually be judged, and sometimes even remunerated, on this basis.

His editor will say "Sam, your average engagement is well down this week so you need to boost it. Our SEO executive says your stories about City's PL charges usually do the trick so bash one of those out, the more lurid and apocalyptic the better. There's a good lad".

This is precisely what is all about. It is a catastophe that independent journalism has virtually vanished from mainstream media. The reason why the BBC publishes so many hateful comments from the pubic at the bottom of their sports stories is that it increases engagement with the site, especially from global football fans. The BBC sells adverts overseas. This is a total dereliction of what the BBC should be doing ie providing an impartial and balanced coverage of UK sport. It really is a death race to the bottom.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Start saving them all, compile it all into a book, publish it, sell it, make money, expose the paedo protectors at the Beeb (again), and finally have all your HYS comments in the public domain.


I'd buy it anyway.

Iirc, there was a book when I was a kid from Alan Coren (was it?) that included fake letters he sent taking the piss out of celebrities and politicians, along with their replies.

You should do it with the BBC complaints department. It didn't do him any harm ....

 

[MikeF]

Our national broadcaster is an obscene parody - all pervading anti City bias driven by this ugly pair of RoanStone cowboys
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Fuck me, noseybonk is still around. Who knew?

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Ha ha it's a top 3 now.
Amazing the BBC are.

Nah.
They've just accidentally missed out the number one.
It's the Terrific Top 13, if the Trafford Tramps are thirteenth...

 

[johnevans]

I went off her when I heard Jeff Lynne was knocking around with her.
I have since been informed it is actually Jess Glynne which hasn't made me feel any better.

I posted on here a few weeks ago about a similar experience I had, when at the local village club I thought I heard the singer being announced as 'Some c*nt from Preston'. Turned out he was a 'Country and Western singer'. A subsequent trip to the GP's Practice Nurse for ear syringing has helped no end ever since..

 

[BolinCell]

This is precisely what is all about. It is a catastophe that independent journalism has virtually vanished from mainstream media. The reason why the BBC publishes so many hateful comments from the pubic at the bottom of their sports stories is that it increases engagement with the site, especially from global football fans. The BBC sells adverts overseas. This is a total dereliction of what the BBC should be doing ie providing an impartial and balanced coverage of UK sport. It really is a death race to the bottom.

Speculation would be rife about any club that was up on 115 charges. That's just the way of the world. Just shit for us it happens to be our club. I suggest we hire the worlds best IT squad to stop the hacking of sensitive club information. Even the dippers were roaming around our recruitment database for info. We must of had monkeys running the IT department during this period?. Pity the scouse clowns weren't hacking our database during the last 2 transfer windows.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Speculation would be rife about any club that was up on 115 charges. That's just the way of the world. Just shit for us it happens to be our club. I suggest we hire the worlds best IT squad to stop the hacking of sensitive club information. Even the dippers were roaming around our recruitment database for info. We must of had monkeys running the IT department during this period?. Pity the scouse clowns weren't hacking our database during the last 2 transfer windows.

That's all true but the way City have been treated by major elements of the UK media is much wider than speculation and started way before any allegations were made by the PL.

 

[Donmcfc]

I watched Football Focus at lunch time. In a 10 minute slot on the derby nine minutes was devoted to the rags. Just before it ended they mentioned that City would also be playing.

 

[manimanc]

Our national broadcaster is an obscene parody - all pervading anti City bias driven by this ugly pair of RoanStone cowboys
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Fuck me, what a pair of cunts.

 

[Aba452]

I went off her when I heard Jeff Lynne was knocking around with her.
I have since been informed it is actually Jess Glynne which hasn't made me feel any better.

Yep remember that ginger woman doing a concert at the Etihad and slagging City off, munter.