Media Thread 2017/18

[Ric]

To be fair to Frank, I often disagree with some of the examples of perceived media bias listed in this thread too.

However, there are times when it's pretty much indisputable, such as the Jonathan Wilson articles that I tweeted, or the Independent using a picture of Aguero on an article about diving that was mentioned above.

 

[franksinatra]

To be fair to Frank, I often disagree with some of the examples of perceived media bias listed in this thread too.

However, there are times when it's pretty much indisputable, such as the Jonathan Wilson articles that I tweeted, or the Independent using a picture of Aguero on an article about diving that was mentioned above.

Agree wholeheartedly with the Wilson one but not convinced by the Aguero picture.

I remember similar articles back in May about this topic so popped it into google search.

In the Telegraph there was pictures of Ramirez and Alli

Guardian a picture of Rashford

Mirror a picture of Rashford and Kane

Mail picture of Snodgrass but references in the pic to Rashford and Kane.

Express showed pics of Sane and Sterling and how they were favourites to be booked.

If I was going to complain the express article I would hang my hat on but pictures associated with diving was not unique to City as distateful as it is.

 

[HelloCity]

Agree wholeheartedly with the Wilson one but not convinced by the Aguero picture.

I remember similar articles back in May about this topic so popped it into google search.

In the Telegraph there was pictures of Ramirez and Alli

Guardian a picture of Rashford

Mirror a picture of Rashford and Kane

Mail picture of Snodgrass but references in the pic to Rashford and Kane.

Express showed pics of Sane and Sterling and how they were favourites to be booked.

If I was going to complain the express article I would hang my hat on but pictures associated with diving was not unique to City.

The difference is that in those examples the player had dived or had notible instances where they had done that season.

Aguero is on the end of a knee high tackle which left him injured.

 

[moomba]

The Wilson pieces were poor, as was his explanation. The whole issue (that he fails to grasp) is that pieces on our players are always about the money, and very rarely about how they fit into the team. But the hyperbole used in the Walker piece went way beyond just about the money (and that's from someone that wasn't keen about the signing).

My only surprise at the Aguero picture was that it wasn't Sterling.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Sure I heard something on the radio earlier on this evening about a rag player (blind?) being fined for refusing to take a drugs test. Just looked on BBC sport and sky sports news but no mention of it. Maybe I dreamt it..... Sure they wouldn't cover it up.

It's there, it just has Jones as the title name.
Also, he didn't refuse to take a drugs test.

 

[bluemoonmatt]

Not one for making an agenda out of everything but find this ridiculous, using this image in this article:


Remember when Aguero was absolutely snapped at Crystal Palace away in 2015, had to go off injured, ref missed a blatant red card, think he was out for a while. Well they've used that image in a diving article.

Article from that game even refers to it as a 'knee high challenge' from Scott Dann on Aguero:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ace-after-scott-danns-knee-high-10498070.html


EDIT: I should point out, I know this could look slightly petty as there is every possibility it is a complete accident.

I just remember at the time I was particularly aggrieved with that challenge that Aguero was on the end of because it could have caused serious damage. The ref saw it and still only give Dann a yellow and then for it to be the main picture for a diving related article is a bit disingenuous.

Also, Aguero is actually one of the rare few who tries to stay on his feet.

I'm also sure that there have been far more notorious divers in the premier league that would have been a more appropriate image for that article.

He is at pains to point out that he only wrote the words, this after accusing a blue who pointed out the nature of the tackle of being "hyper sensitive" an accusation a red further down decided to copy and paste, I assume they struggle with words over 8 letters long. This is a reasonable example imo as there are a plethora of pics or stills that could have been used, I'm torn but I think I might have had to pick an image or still of one of the biddy fiddlers finer efforts but yes, to pick a photo of aguero post scythe is ridiculous.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Wilson is a shithouse who has fooled a generation of amateurs into believing he has some insight into a side of the game that he blatantly doesn't comprehend, and with it has spawned a legion of Michael Cox shaped clones who continue to misinform and misrepresent how football works at a fundamental level, contributing to the ever widening gap of knowledge in the Anglosphere compared with other nations whose understand moved on from these singular concepts about 25 years ago and due to this have a far better innate instinct about positional play and the concepts introduced in the modern professional game. While the Paul Merson and Robbie Savage shaped pundits are very obviously damaging to the national footballing culture through misinforming the country on the workings of the game, Wilson and Cox are too yet focused on the other end of the scale, not only continuing the spectacularly wrong causality of "duelling football" but doing so with a form of legitimacy that makes people feel they're being educated. Everybody knows Merson is a fool so they ignore him. People don't know Wilson is wrong so he manages to do more collective damage.

Also he's one of the most unpopular journalists in Fleet Street and most people I've spoken to in that trade consider him a condescending twat who got big from a book that is essentially a big collation of other people's articles.

I'm sensing that you're not an admirer.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Of all the players to put in that article!

Yes, clearly it should be Sterling! Or is that only in redtops?

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

just know diving bans will only apply occasionally to mid/lower table teams and constantly to us, they're so gleeful about it they're not hiding how much they're going to screw us over, what is the point...

 

[MillionMilesAway]

just know diving bans will only apply occasionally to mid/lower table teams and constantly to us, they're so gleeful about it they're not hiding how much they're going to screw us over, what is the point...

I'm not sure they can do that. It will be quite obvious if clear dives go unpunished.