Media Thread 2017/18

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The MUEN website this Morning.

5 separate United articles at the top of the MUEN homepage. One separate article showing Julia Roberts wearing a Untied shirt. Keeping on scrolling, scrolling, scrolling down and you will eventually come to the first City article.

It's been very clear of the last few months, especially online, that the MUEN's sole Manchester football focus is on United.

It used to be bad. I think we all agree on that. Now it's even worse. Don't know who owns the MUEN, or who the Chief Editor and Sports Editor are, but it's clear they have decided to focus on and push United.

An even sadder day for a once local paper that at least tried to be fair and equal with the news on both of Manchester's football clubs.
 
jrb said:
The MUEN website this Morning.

5 separate United articles at the top of the MUEN homepage. One separate article showing Julia Roberts wearing a Untied shirt. Keeping on scrolling, scrolling, scrolling down and you will eventually come to the first City article.

It's been very clear of the last few months, especially online, that the MUEN's sole Manchester football focus is on United.

It used to be bad. I think we all agree on that. Now it's even worse. Don't know who owns the MUEN, or who the Chief Editor and Sports Editor are, but it's clear they have decided to focus on and push United.

An even sadder day for a once local paper that at least tried to be fair and equal with the news on both of Manchester's football clubs.
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Their social media feed on putting articles out is shameful for pushing their desperate 'we are still relevant' agenda. They make it sound like they are in for worldies when hyping the Croatian Martin Petrov they are about to have their pants taken down for.

The rags should be up in arms about their transfer activity. Not one player they have signed would get into our first team yet they think the good times are back. Should be fun watching this one play out till may.
 
It really is time for Blues to stop checking the Evening News website. Let them focus on their favourite club and leave them to it. Block them on Twitter as well.
 
it's all about supply and demand; the media knows that any article about the rags will gather more clicks and comments than article about city. just look at te numbers of comments to any rag article, even an article about lukaku's underwear will gather about 500 comments. I'm excluding ofc the troll articles about us paying 1000mil for player X.
 
jrb said:
The MUEN website this Morning.

5 separate United articles at the top of the MUEN homepage. One separate article showing Julia Roberts wearing a Untied shirt. Keeping on scrolling, scrolling, scrolling down and you will eventually come to the first City article.

It's been very clear of the last few months, especially online, that the MUEN's sole Manchester football focus is on United.

It used to be bad. I think we all agree on that. Now it's even worse. Don't know who owns the MUEN, or who the Chief Editor and Sports Editor are, but it's clear they have decided to focus on and push United.

An even sadder day for a once local paper that at least tried to be fair and equal with the news on both of Manchester's football clubs.
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They got a slating last season across social media from countless City fans telling them how clearly biased they are, and I know one or two submitted written complaints. Obviously the claims were rebuked and they did seem to even up the stories for a while after that. I say a while; it lasted all of about 2 weeks, then they quickly reverted to type.

Their standard of journalism is nothing more than pumped-up click-bait. Even their City Twitter feed is just endless vague headlines with a link to the website which you have to click if you want to know wtf they are on about. They know where the money is, and they are not afraid to admit it, hence about 5:1 in favour of Rag stories. They really need to stop pretending that they are a newspaper that serves Greater Manchester, when all they do is provide another income stream for Trinity Mirror Group.
 
MUEN article about Eric Bailly

The new United Vidic. Now one of the best centre halfs in the World. Blah, blah, blah.

Anyway. At the start of the Bailly & United article, City, their defenders, and defensive problems got a mention over a couple of paragrahs. The first one. Can't be arsed posting both of the paragraphs. You get the tone and idea of the article.

Manchester City are on the verge of breaking the world record transfer fee for a defender with the addition of Benjamin Mendy and the value of his rearguard ilk is as startling as some BBC employees' salaries.
 
Leto said:
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...chester-city-ederson-goalkeeper-claudio-bravo

Jamie Jackson writing shite like this isn't necessarily media bias, more like the Guardian's positive drive to recruit more special needs reporters. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if he had a united duvet set.
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did you see the excerpts of his "book" chronicling a year under Moyes? it was basically a diary without any formatting, rending it unreadable as well as grovelling one-eyed.

That piece is dripping with sneering. "only the FA Cup semifinals"??
 
Its the same every year, now is the time to appeal to their subscriber base when PL football is not being played and friendly almost meaningless matches are the name of the game.
Let the media sell their newspapers and top up their TV subs by appealing to their biggest potential base because when the season starts and reality sets in even the most ardent non City fan will be able to do their own comparisons.
 
Interstate 5 said:
So we've dealt with Monaco over Silva, so a reasonably good relationship with them. We've had a bid turned down for Mendy, so obviously we've gone about that the right way. But, suddenly, we've gone behind their backs and tried to tap up Mbappe and according to the marvelous English media they're threatening to report us to everyone from FIFA to Guardians Of The Galaxy.
What a load of fooking bullshit from our "friends" in the media.
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This is the thing, I know personally that the media are making up news since we were told to do that at Uni when I actually studied to become a journalist. We were basically told that as long as we don't get caught we can make up news and if we are caught the newspaper will write a small apology in the middle of the paper. So I dropped out of uni rather than being part of that disgusting cabal known as journalism.
 
silvasankle said:
This is the thing, I know personally that the media are making up news since we were told to do that at Uni when I actually studied to become a journalist. We were basically told that as long as we don't get caught we can make up news and if we are caught the newspaper will write a small apology in the middle of the paper. So I dropped out of uni rather than being part of that disgusting cabal known as journalism.
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You can make anything you want up as a journalist as long as you don't put names to quotes. They have no duty to report the truth, in fact they are encouraged just to create clicks, the content of their work is of no importance to any news centre which makes journalists a complete joke.

The fact that there's a number of other ways to gain knowledge other than from the press makes journalists' work a complete irrelevance to anything or anyone; whether that be an individual fan or a big company like a football club.

How people pay attention to any of it and put importance to any of it is beyond my understanding.
 
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Had to laugh.

Talkshite ad.

Annual spending on defence: USA £820bn Cuba £700m Man City £200m Bosnia £180m Congo £135m
 
I had to laugh that Kolarov's fee is now down to £4.5m (from £5.8m Euros). I get a better exchange rate for my Euros than our multi-billionaire owners lol. Contrast that with Mendy costing £52mil (based on £57.5m Euros).
 
My reaction to the rags in work and media today

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Either ignore them or patronise them but don't fall for their 'clicks' !!
It's not possible to believe or take seriously 99.9% of journalists or media outlets. They're worse than politicians.
 
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