Media thread 2022/23

[Rory Bluelow]

I take your point about the Guardian. Unfortunately Sly Sports News does have a lot of (social media) clout, whether we like to admit it or not. Apart from City fans who have stop watching Sly Sports News in their droves, fans of other clubs, especially the red shirt clubs, still watch it and lap up the anti City agenda and narrative.

I think the kids will just party-on whatever, I honestly can’t see Sky being around for that much longer, some the best recent coverage by far has been on the likes of CBS and ESPN and other foreign channels. Sky will go the way of BT Sport. Too parochial, just too old fashioned. It’s like a big comfort blanket for the “history” clubs. (Love your posts btw on Manchester developments, I can hardly recognise place these days !)

 

[Kinkybyname]

 

[Blu1]

All I have heard from talksport today is talk about utd treble. Tossers

 

[halfcenturyup]

Everyone on that picture is "stern looking" and not all of them are connected to us...
There is no context there... it's obviously before kick-off for a start

Naah, it is the evil Sheikh and his henchmen upset because we didn't thrash them 4-0 like we did Liverpool last time he turned up. He will be selling us next week to some US asset-strippers.

In their dreams :)

 

[halfcenturyup]

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:) I don't know what the content is like, but some of those headlines are pretty good.

Man Who? :P

 

[madloaf]

All I have heard from talksport today is talk about utd treble. Tossers

I must love torturing myself and turned it on in traffic only to hear them desperate to get Dwight Yorke on. Ffs.

 

[Kinkybyname]

 

[Kinkybyname]

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

I don't need convincing, I know.

10am every morning conference. Data and theme teams asking what is hitting the mark and how to build further narrative.

City fans are doing their jobs for them.

Make them accountable, sure, but don't make them relevant.

United sell newspapers, it's certainly not because they play brilliant football.

I've walked away from this shit. 30 years working in an industry which is now dictated by algorithms and people sat reading forums and Twitter.

City fans being socially conditioned to think everyone hates us, based on the lazy tropes and bitterness of self-important spunk bubbles.

Thanks for sharing this mate.

It’s fascinating to get some informed insight on the cesspit that is British journalism in 2023, and highlights exactly why threads like this one, full of links to all the articles and content City fans find so infuriating, are such a self-defeating exercise.

We’re providing the very people and publications we know are cynically twisting the narrative to suit their paymasters, with a handy, bitesize, collated summary of exactly which of their articles are hitting the spot - and which they clearly need to sharpen up and do better on!

Journalism in this country is dead - sacrificed at the altar of clicks and algorithms - and threads like this give the bunch of shills whose job it now is to generate as many clicks as possible the validation they’re doing their job right.

We’re keeping them relevant and in regular work!

You’re better off out of it mate - and you’ve chosen a job and a career that you can actually be proud of. Which has a positive impact on the world, and the people you’ll come into contact with.

Respect!

I hope you find it rewarding, and feel like you’re making a positive difference to the lives of the kids you’ll be supporting.

 

[One Fan Clapping]

Yes I understand how it works (in principle, not being in the industry), I was questioning this statement:

"I am genuinely convinced the most negative detractors of City get most of their engagement (thus exposure and revenue) from Bluemoon and Bluemoon users on Twitter, Reddit, etc."

Whatever the methodology, I find it hard to believe that statement is true in any way, shape or form.

I would never have heard of Delaney, Harris et al if it wasn’t for this thread. They’re just Twitter hacks, and City fans who respond to them are simply increasing their profiles.

 

[Kinkybyname]

 

[Kinkybyname]

 

[Sky Blue]

Glad the thread is back. First I go to when I wake up. I feed off the hate if I'm honest. Means the mighty MCFC are doing well and destroying so many lives. :)

 

[Kinkybyname]

 

[Centurions]

Not the best picture TBH.

Stern and lack of emotion looking. At that moment.

Exactly what the City hating media want to see.

At least the picture taker got the money shot and won't have to work for the foreseeable future

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With a 10 FPS motor drive camera and a long lens they could have posted a picture of them all smiling. They would have had 100's of pictures to choose from but they choose this one.

 

[give it to gordon]

Glad it's back looking forward to all the links about how well behaved City and Inter were. The in depth reports of why trouble seems to follow liverpool. That City and Inter showed the dippers how to behave.

Even with the transport problems still no trouble

So post the links lads and lasses

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Very often, the headline and summary can be different to the body of the article. Someone in the industry explained that previously, as the editors choosing not the writers. If more people out there read the full thing (of some of the articles, not all), the headlines maybe wouldn't stick as much.

Either way, people will most likely either read the whole thing or not, regardless of whether there is a link to it or not, so it is a bit of a niche argument.

Not sure I get your point here mate.

I completely get that headlines are written by editors, not by the journalists who wrote the actual content, and are designed to provoke interest.

So are you saying we should post links to full articles as a method of somehow trying to reduce the reactionary headlines?

I’m really not sure that’s how it works, with respect.

Surely all that would achieve is to validate the approach that the headline on the link made people click to read the content?

Maybe I’m missing something in your post though, as I’m sure that can’t be your point!

 

[CC1]

Your monthly reminder to…

STOP POSTING LINKS TO NEGATIVE ARTICLES ABOUT CITY

If you must share them for some reason, post a screenshot (of only the headline and summary paragraph, anything more will be deleted to avoid copyright claims against the forum).

Posting the link just gives them more engagement, which is exactly what they want, only serving to incentivise more negative articles in the future.

I am convinced that half of the negative articles written about City get most of their engagement from City fans rage-sharing them on here, Twitter, Reddit, and elsewhere.

Can we make this a pinned post IN CAPITALS so it’s the first thing everyone sees. We’ve got to stop feeding the media

 

[TinFoilHat]

They are pinning their hopes on Pep leaving at the end of his contract this morning.

 

[CC1]

Get fucked, we need conflict and the media are it.

Should we stop clicks to the site?

Yes