MUEN - what's gone wrong?

TBF, I've never really understood the bias thing with the MEN.

I had the privilege of 3 weeks work experience there back in the day. Was taken to press conferences at both Maine Road and The Swamp by messrs. Hince and Meek and learned a lot from them and Chris Brierley.

My one piece of work that got published was an entire column inch in relation to Mark Hughes being on the bench for a Wales game after some time out with an injury (yes, I'm that old).

The last piece of advice Mr Hince gave me, if I was serious about Journalism, was to not go to University but to start at the bottom and work my way up. Needless to say, I went to University and sadly haven't pursued my ambitions in writing.

Maybe my experience makes me blind to the supposed bias at the MEN, but I consider myself educated enough to realise when I see something that has biased under/overtones, but have never really seen this in the MEN.
 
The two problems the MEN have, as far as see it are as follows:

1) They have absolutely no influnece at City whatsoever. In the (not so) good old days Peter Gardiner used to ride on the team coach with the players. These days City wouldn't even let Brennan clean the team coach never mind ride in it. They have no ear at City and no one at City wants to talk to them. MEN is therefore reduced to a combination trawling the internet and guesswork for its stories.

2) Peter Spencer is an absolute cock. Sorry but there is no easy way of putting this. His 12 questions for Garry Cook article after Hughesless was sacked was an absolute disgrace and served no purpose whasoever other than trying to destablise the club. As if a joke of a rag like the MEN could even get close. Through articles like this, the paper has been reduced to outrageous sensationalsm in trying to peddle its stories. The MEN is the annoying kid in the school playground that eveyone ignored, acting more and more ridiculous, desperate just to get a bit of attention.

The combination of these two factors means that the MEN has absolutely no credibilty whatsoever. And this is where the downward cycle takes hold. The fewer readers they attract the more sensentionalist they become trying to attract readers, the more sensationalist they become the fewer readers they attract.

I used to go on the MEN website, I used to contribute sometimes. These days my involvement with this rag doesn't extend beyond sometimes flicking through the pages whilst i'm having a shit at work and only then if there's nothing else to read.
 
Perhaps the fact that the MuEN was a pipeline for the poison hughes and his minions drip feed the media about anyone at the club who he had issues with may be why the club want nothing to do with this rag infested newspaper ?.

Historically there was always a bia`s towards the dark side anyway, but the bias has grown into frantic hysteria bordering on hatred at times last season with some of the slanted views expressed as reporting.

Going back as far as the plight of the Munich survivors and the many dodgy dealings and scandals involving "Them", the MuEN has constantly shown a lack of any real creditably when reporting on things to the point that it became a mouthpiece for united`s spin rather than the truth.

So I do not buy the rag anymore, I would not believe a single word it prints starting with the f*cking date at the top of a page.
 
I bought the paper religiously in the 80's - waiting for (what was then) the first edition which hit the shops around noon. This was really the only way to get news about City.
The week before the Charlton promotion game in 1985, I was almost camped outside the newsagent from 11.45am onwards (I was on the dole ;) waiting for the MEN van as I was desperate to find out if the injury 'crisis' had got better. Even Piccadilly Radio didn't bother too much with sports news updates. That is how essential the paper was.

Now we get all our sport news elsewhere and for free. 24 hour TV (OK, you may have to subscribe!) and radio, websites etc etc that can be accessed via a mobile phone wherever you are.
Going out to buy a paper is becoming redundant and irrelevant and in some cases, by the time it has been printed, the news has been superseded.
 
I have very little faith in any paper these days and certainly not the MEN.

Reason for this? Whenever there's a story in the paper about something I know about - I mean know about, not have theories about - the story is invariably bollocks. This has been true for at least 20 years. Papers look for angles they think their average (read thick) reader will enjoy. Facts are neither here nor there if they get in the way of the story they want to tell.

If I want to read made up stuff, I read a novel. Better class of writer!
 
Heres a story posted on the MUEN today which is taken directly from the same story posted in the SUN by Neil Custus yesterday...The only problem is the favourable comments about City wining the title have been edited from the MUEN story. Why would a supposed impartial media outlet put such a bias slant on a story favouring one local team over the other??

MUEN post on 30th July 2012
Manchester City celebrations will spark Manchester United - Paul Scholes
Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes will use Manchester City's final day celebrations as his motivating force in the 2012/13 campaign.
The Reds lost out on the Premier League title on goal difference, and Scholes is still feeling the sting of the finale.
"It's always a motivating force when you lose the league," he said.
"It's not nice to see another team celebrate winning the title on the last day of the season. That picture stays with you."

Sun post 29th July 2012
Paul Scholes says Manchester City deserved to win the title
PAUL SCHOLES says Manchester City have raised the bar in the Premier League and it is now up to everyone else to reach higher.Only goal difference separated champions City from Manchester United at the end of last season. But according to Scholes that wafer-thin gap really painted over a bigger crack between the two sides.Now he says it is time for United to stop believing they are City’s equal and set about bridging the gap.
“As much as I don’t want to admit it, City were good to watch and probably played the best football, so from that aspect they were the best team and deserved to win it.
“They have raised the bar, so now it’s up to us to kick on and do better than they did.”
“We failed at the end of last season, we should have won the league and didn’t.
“It was a major disappointment to lose the league.”
“It’s not nice when you see another team celebrating winning the league on the last day of the season and that picture stays with you.
"It's always a motivating force when you lose the league," he said.
“It is in your head and you don’t want it to happen again.”

You don't really need to add anything else...says it all!!!
 
ABU inc GDR said:
Heres a story posted on the MUEN today which is taken directly from the same story posted in the SUN by Neil Custus yesterday...The only problem is the favourable comments about City wining the title have been edited from the MUEN story. Why would a supposed impartial media outlet put such a bias slant on a story favouring one local team over the other??

MUEN post on 30th July 2012
Manchester City celebrations will spark Manchester United - Paul Scholes
Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes will use Manchester City's final day celebrations as his motivating force in the 2012/13 campaign.
The Reds lost out on the Premier League title on goal difference, and Scholes is still feeling the sting of the finale.
"It's always a motivating force when you lose the league," he said.
"It's not nice to see another team celebrate winning the title on the last day of the season. That picture stays with you."

Sun post 29th July 2012
Paul Scholes says Manchester City deserved to win the title
PAUL SCHOLES says Manchester City have raised the bar in the Premier League and it is now up to everyone else to reach higher.Only goal difference separated champions City from Manchester United at the end of last season. But according to Scholes that wafer-thin gap really painted over a bigger crack between the two sides.Now he says it is time for United to stop believing they are City’s equal and set about bridging the gap.
“As much as I don’t want to admit it, City were good to watch and probably played the best football, so from that aspect they were the best team and deserved to win it.
“They have raised the bar, so now it’s up to us to kick on and do better than they did.”
“We failed at the end of last season, we should have won the league and didn’t.
“It was a major disappointment to lose the league.”
“It’s not nice when you see another team celebrating winning the league on the last day of the season and that picture stays with you.
"It's always a motivating force when you lose the league," he said.
“It is in your head and you don’t want it to happen again.”

You don't really need to add anything else...says it all!!!
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Oops.

:)
 
Fair play to Stuart for coming on here and defending his integrity and the paper he works for. Having read numerous articles by him over the last couple of seasons I think he generally gives good, balanced and interesting views on most things city related.
 
It looks like mitten has got a if not regular then certainly frequent column & it is on the City page..........yes it's a fairytale.
I aint posting it because i think you lot know how it goes,if it turns out it's once a week then best to just bin it for that day rather than the full week.
 
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