I thought BBS was being sarcastic?
Media Thread 2020/21
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Don't waste your time mate. As a regular lurker, not a reader, on the Daily United, you're looking at a ratio of 4-1 United and City articles per day. On match days United get even more articles. There are plenty of day's when City never get a report. Believe it it not, the Express is much worse. It's wall to wall United (and Liverpool) on their website. City don't exist as far as the Express is concerned.
Trevor Morley's Tache
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I get that, but why do they always look for a negative angle when it comes to certain clubs/players, yet others can do no wrong? That is surely nothing to do with size of fan base.
Because a positive story about City will attract mainly our fans but a negative story about City will draw clicks from United and Liverpool fans, thus generating a bigger readership.
They are just playing to the audience.
Most of the pre-puberty clubs have paranoid 'fans', they won't buy a paper if they have an reason to think it is anti their club.
Any sensible person wouldn't buy a paper or read it online these days, you are better just watching the game and making your own mind up.
Blue Til Death
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I don't read about them full stop mate, even when they get tonked, the media put a positive spin on it so they and the dippers are persona non grata 24/7
give it to gordon
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Here it is don't know why but the email went straight into my junk mail !
I still dont see what is controversial about scoring a perfectly legal goal. Might be controversial about a manager and player not knowing the off side rule , but even that's pushing it abit
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Utter bullshit
Return of the Mac
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The media could have run with "how can players, managers and pundits fail to know the rules of the game" but they took the other side, as usual tries to make it look like we have got away with something.
You're right – simple truth is (as we all know) that Liverpool,United and Arsenal attract a large amount of glory hunting plastics, that will gleefully lap up every bit of crap they're given online... we don't.
So in a world where the number of clicks you get = success and financial gain, they are simply doing what most business do and chasing the profit.
A positive article about City gets them far less traffic than one about the red-shirted vermin, sadly - and the opposite is also true, post a negative one about us, and the unwashed masses can't help but click and comment.
The only way this will change in the future is either online guidelines which prohibits news media from click-chasing, which will never happen - or for us to get the amount of plastics they have. The only way that will happen is if we win the CL a few times, and a few more PL's.
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Wow just checked BBC sport website and I take it that Man Utd won yesterday.
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Back in the nineties I walked into a need agents in Blackpool behind a family of four all covered in Rag kit. The father asked for an evening paper and was offered the MUEN, don't you have one more local said the dad, yes the Gazette said the news agent but I assumed you were from Manchester. I snorted having heard their southern accents. No said the man we are on holiday from Kent. I said you must have been delighted with the cricket on Saturday, as Lancy had stuffed Kent in a one day final. No he spluttered we were very disappointed, why I said if you support footy at OT why not cricket. He did not reply but led his ugly wife and kids out of the shop. No lots of decent Manc rags but out of towners seem total tossers.
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News agents not need agents, bloody predictive text
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Thought for a moment they needed special needs. :-)
blue b4 the moon
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Indeed the report could have said Smith & Mings controversially haven't got a fucking clue about the rules of the game they're paid a fortune to be involved in & even when it's explained to them inexplicably carry-on chatting shit when it's broken down in simple terms to them in language a 5 year old on home schooling could understand.
Honestly I'm more surprised they actually constructed a reply, rather than just give you the "Thanks for your feedback" bot messages.
Thanks for sharing. Controversial my arse.
Prestwich_Blue
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This is absolutely right. Even in the MEN, if they were to run two identical stories about a potential transfer for Player A, but with one talking about United as the destination and the other talking about us, the former would get something like 7-10 times more hits as the latter. And the same applies to all papers, particularly the nationals. which are run by their SEO's (Search Engine Optimisation). It's simply comemrcial logic as the more hits you get, the more advertising revenue you get.
Even more so, the SEO's know that a story has has "Manchester United" in the headline as opposed to "Man Utd" will get significantly more hits, whereas it doesn't matter that much for us. And of course a negative story about us will attract both Liverpool & United fans, as the Liverpool Echo clearly knows.
However there is also a clear and deliberate attempt, particularly by the US-owned triumvirate who play in red, to discredit us wherever possible. With the rapprochement between the Saudis/UAE and Qatar, maybe the geo-political element of that will die down in time. This is the second and more insidious element of the negative media we constantly seem to get.
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