MUEN - what's gone wrong?

[bluearrow]

Re: MUEN -whats gone wrong

They were interviewing Spencer on talkshit a couple of days ago, some bloke called Danny after 7pm, I was getting very angry , was, for the first time ever, happy for Mrs arrow to put smooth fm on!!!! Very biased correspondant.

 

[True_Blue69]

Re: MUEN -whats gone wrong

Para para paranoid. The rags say exactly the same thing about the paper being biased to us. Imagine that 6-1 story they did about the players nominated for player of the year had been reversed, or the one about them not moving away fans in case City fans celebrating damages the stand? There'd be uproar on here.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Re: MUEN -whats gone wrong

anyone got the real story on brennan and fergie?

When the Glazer's took over (or were attempting too) Brennan was very anti and wrote negative pieces about the takeover. He also gave a lot of space towards FCUM when they set up too. Both of this reporting pissed the rags off.

So they threatened to pull any access the MEN had to the players / club unless the criticism ceased and Brennan was removed from the post.

 

[Shirley]

Re: MUEN -whats gone wrong

As far as the football section is concerned it is following the tabloid way, probably under direction from the new owners.
I don't think the Mancunian readers really want this judging from the comments posted.

 

[whp.blue]

Re: MUEN -whats gone wrong

well as a mancunian I would not give this rag a penny and as I have said before I managed to stop my last company from advertising in it or using it for job vacancies

I must have cost them thousands in lost revenue

this rag is on its way to a long slow death

any paper should back its local football club and the MEN picked the rags but should have checked as a majority of its potential customers are in fact blues

one bad decision after another choosing a non blue journo to write on City was just the last straw for most blues

I never click on its links or even read its articles plus very soon non footy related advertisers will realise that the rag has alienated a large percentage of their target market and stop advertising in the rag and this will speed up its demise

 

[badge]

Re: MUEN -whats gone wrong

well as a mancunian I would not give this rag a penny and as I have said before I managed to stop my last company from advertising in it or using it for job vacancies

I must have cost them thousands in lost revenue

this rag is on its way to a long slow death

any paper should back its local football club and the MEN picked the rags but should have checked as a majority of its potential customers are in fact blues

one bad decision after another choosing a non blue journo to write on City was just the last straw for most blues

I never click on its links or even read its articles plus very soon non footy related advertisers will realise that the rag has alienated a large percentage of their target market and stop advertising in the rag and this will speed up its demise

full marks for that! let's become the first major city to have no local paper. that would be great!

 

[njmcfc1894]

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well as a mancunian I would not give this rag a penny and as I have said before I managed to stop my last company from advertising in it or using it for job vacancies

I must have cost them thousands in lost revenue

this rag is on its way to a long slow death

any paper should back its local football club and the MEN picked the rags but should have checked as a majority of its potential customers are in fact blues

one bad decision after another choosing a non blue journo to write on City was just the last straw for most blues

I never click on its links or even read its articles plus very soon non footy related advertisers will realise that the rag has alienated a large percentage of their target market and stop advertising in the rag and this will speed up its demise

full marks for that! let's become the first major city to have no local paper. that would be great!

to be fair it wouldnt make a difference, evening news has no way into city anyway, bet chris bailey glad he deserted sinking ship to join the rising blues.

 

[Shaelumstash]

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Since it's take over by the Mirror group a few years ago the quality of the journalism has been appalling. The budgets were slashed at the paper, and they now rely on Mirror, AP or MCFC press releases for stories.

I cannot recall a single story from the MEN in the last 3 years that has been based on an exclusive interview with someone employed by the club. This used to be common place when Hince was the lead journalist.

In fairness, I think this is partly down to the club being more controlling of it's press / media output by doing most of in through the official website. In the modern age there is really no need to use local press to reach your fans, you can do it directly, making it easier to control the output and put a positive slant on it.

The City pages are the most viewed on the MEN site, so it would be ridiculous to be purposefully biased against us. However, it is the nature of modern press / online journalism that stories which generate the most clicks, posts, and social media interaction are the ones editors are most keen to see as it increases site traffic / advertising revenue.

That means sensationalist / wildly speculative articles often get published, because they will generate the biggest reaction. As the paper has little or no relationship with the club anymore, they have no problem publishing inaccurate or negative stories, as long as it gets traffic to the site / sells papers.

There is no agenda though, the coverage after we won the league was great, and extremely positive. The knew this would sell and reflected what people wanted. If there was an agenda they would say we bought the league, didn't deserve it etc, but that wasn't the case.

The only agenda the MEN has is to direct traffic to the site / sell papers, irrespective of whether it is a positive or negative spin on a story.

 

[whp.blue]

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well as a mancunian I would not give this rag a penny and as I have said before I managed to stop my last company from advertising in it or using it for job vacancies

I must have cost them thousands in lost revenue

this rag is on its way to a long slow death

any paper should back its local football club and the MEN picked the rags but should have checked as a majority of its potential customers are in fact blues

one bad decision after another choosing a non blue journo to write on City was just the last straw for most blues

I never click on its links or even read its articles plus very soon non footy related advertisers will realise that the rag has alienated a large percentage of their target market and stop advertising in the rag and this will speed up its demise

full marks for that! let's become the first major city to have no local paper. that would be great!

thats much better than having a total peice of badly written biased rag like we have now

 

[ABU inc GDR]

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I attach a post I made following accusation of being paranoid about MEN bias in reporting.

My justification for referring to this site as MUEN and not MEN can be proven by comparing and contrasting the selective reporting and slant on headlines and stories put on this site every single day.

An example of selective reporting would be the missing story on the postponed Glazers New York IPO. This was major headlines when the IPO was first announced 6 weeks ago, this isn't trying to bury bad news this is plain ignoring it.

If we consider the similar article on both sides yesterday it can be seen that there is a big difference in the slant put on the same story!!!!!

"Manchester United are in pole position to sign Arsenal's Robin van Persie after Juventus seemingly admitted defeat in their pursuit of the player" (posted 14.00hrs)

"Manchester City have been given new hope in their pursuit of Robin van Persie after Juventus cooled their interest in the player" (posted 15.30 hrs)

Fully understand and respect your point of view, started following City in 1975 myself. However I disagree with your viewpoint, in my opinion the MEN plays it's part in perpetuating negative bias media reporting of our club and players and it's time we put aside our charitable...typical City stance and objected.