Media Thread 2017/18

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franksinatra said:
Just been on it and you have failed to mention the Brahim Diaz story which is above all the united stories bar the lead article.
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And that is exactly the type of smug comment I was talking about. You are ignoring the gist of someones argument by highlighting one thing as though that disproves the genral tenor of the argument and that is what gets people annoyed.

I have 2 simple yes or no questions for you.

Do you think that the media treat each club equally?
Do you think the BBC treat each club fairly?
 
The media bias towards United has always been there. The relentless rise of the blue half of the city is rightly seen as a massive threat to all concerned in the red half. I think all concerned at the swamp are in a tailspin, desperately thinking up trivial snippets of news to fling at the media, who, at the moment gobble it up, thinking it increases 'clicks' and newspaper sales. It will change, it's just a matter of time.
 
chesterguy said:
And that is exactly the type of smug comment I was talking about. You are ignoring the gist of someones argument by highlighting one thing as though that disproves the genral tenor of the argument and that is what gets people annoyed.

I have 2 simple yes or no questions for you.

Do you think that the media treat each club equally?
Do you think the BBC treat each club fairly?
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I wouldn't bother, it has been discussed with him on numerous occasions, he doesn't believe it and that is that, he somehow doesn't get bored with coming onto these types of threads to say it is all in your minds and there is no bias at all, seriously it has been going on since the takeover he has already changed name once for whatever reason.

At the end of the day you will only agitate yourself trying to argue with him.
 
franksinatra said:
No it wasnt. It was directly under the United article along with an article on Sanchez.

For your information City beating Real madrid was the lead article for part of the day on the mail website. I think Ric posted it earlier??

Sadly you are misunderstanding bias and commercial decision-making. Many have wrote about it on here and to a certain extent they are quite correct.

They put on there website what they think there readership want to read. So sadly you will probably get more United articles than City. Just like you will get more City articles than the other 95 percent of football
clubs in the football pyramid. Not bias just the fact the paper makes commercial decisions. Do you also bleat that City get more coverage than say Southampton or Watford for example? Is this also bias against those clubs?
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For somebody that has admitted to me he does agree there is a media bias, you are doing a lot of denying it mate ;o)
 
The more successful we become the more hated we will become , much prefer this to the yo-yo team we used to be when the Rag/Dipper media basically took the piss out of us for 30 odd years , the media machine despises us because we are a real threat and there is a strong possibility we will dominate English football in the next few years and thus nullifying their Rag/Dipper cash cow. "Its not personal its business"
 
There is bias, but important thing to note though - It is because of money, clicks mean ££££ and Utd for eg bring in more of that, It isnt right but it is market economics in most cases.

But it all goes away if City start winning things.

And then we will get the same bias that they get now gauranteed
 
The casual football fan is influenced by the media. They have impressions created by motd , sky and the the gutter.
So it is no surprise that they see us as , Johnny come lateley's , empty seat, oil rich, sugar daddy lottery winners.

Most serious intelligent people see through it.
There are agendas and bias throughout the media, why would we be exempt
 
Glad to see we beat RM in any match never mind a pre season friendly just as I was disappointed to lose to United, but thats me as a City fan wanting anything to get over on the opposition.
These matches were very real to fans in USA (93K in Los A) so the publicity will do football good out there but are we really worried that we are not getting the fantasy football pre season hype that the press always indulge United with every pre season that I can remember ?
Do we really need to worry about bias on games that frankly don´t matter, if so we are just as bad as United fans wanting to read how they are going to win everything in sight and the PL will be a cakewalk.

Lets see how the media deal with real games in the PL and CL because then it matters to every fan whatever their allegiance because to be honest apart from us and RM fans who gives a toss about a friendly anyway ?
The PL games make the neutral fan more aware of any obvious bias or omissions and table places and results must be dealt with.
Obviously still negative slants but that table cannot lie during the football season however I refuse to get upset because newspapers give preference to United because of a friendly.
 
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