I think this time has long passed. We have had this for 5 years already, tell me exactly how long you expect this long game to continue. You obviously don't fully get it being in Austin but it has got to bad now here. I was part of the gently gently side of thinking but nothing has changed at all, nothing. I am not talking about every snipe, but over time they build up and at some point you have to say enough is enough.
Vicky may like the club but all i see is a nice lady, not someone a reporter would be arsed about after doing a hatchet job on the club. To be honest she seems useless, that is the impression given, not great considering what her job title is. I get her directives may force her to be like this, it is still shit and she is head of the dept so she should take the flak tbh.
A good example was the other week i read a small article about china and the cash they have with a generic pic of us mid game. the tone was 'greedy players'. To much of this stuff happens now for my liking, it is underhand and deserves challenging imo. We were not even mentioned in it, rooney was though so why not a pic of him?
You are right bud and 99% of the time i just ignore them. Maybe the BBC trying to shifty around wound me up. It does suck though, i want to be a kid again when the world was simple and small xDThis negative media will be around until there employers who support the scum Liverpool Arsenal disappear from any media work! We all know that will never happen and with the stand City are taking, with no repercussion to the media for this negative writing/broadcasting it will never end!
The drip drip impact of negative coverage is certainly damaging us but it's not that easy to combat. The printed and website media will always be biased for commercial reasons and that's why we suffer blanket coverage of the rags. It's the same in Spain with Barca, Real, and in Germany with Bayern.
The difference here is that coverage of City is often negative and nasty. There are many reasons for this and some of it is essentially racism towards our owners. The other factor is the way United have manipulated the media for years. Under Ferguson they were bullies.
I have heard some incredible stories about the way that club has conducted its business in the Manchester area over the years, nothing to do with football but they way they handle their suppliers for example. The rags have been doing this for years and have still got a lot of friends in high places.The bottom line is that they still have more influence than us and it will take decades for this to change but we have made a start.
The thing that annoys me the most is the BBC online coverage. It is one of the world's biggest websites and we can't afford to let them continue to trash us. The "Pete the Badge" thing is more damaging than a lot of people think. Our PR team has to fight back on these sort of issues but still needs to pick its battles carefully.
You are right bud and 99% of the time i just ignore them. Maybe the BBC trying to shifty around wound me up. It does suck though, i want to be a kid again when the world was simple and small xD
@AustinBlue i just read back my post and it may sound a bit pissy me noting you not fully getting it. Sorry if it does sound that way, it was not my intent. What i was trying to say is the media coverage you get and what we get you can imagine is different. If a match is on now, i will go directly for the USA coverage. They call it as it is and i love it, actual genuine punditry unrestricted from our archaic establishment mentality, i love it.
Do we have a PR team?
An example that City could use is look at what Donald Trump has done (never thought I would say that). He may be mad but he doesnt hang about. He has taken exception to what some media outlets have said about him so he has banned those outlets from receiving off the record briefings. We need to do something similar. We have papers like the Sun and Star vilifying one of our players the editors of those papers should be informed one more breach and they will have their press badges rescinded and that should be the same for any of the media. We dont need to fight them in the playground lets close the gates and not let them in to play
I disagree with your first sentence. I think all it would take is an important member of our heirachy to come out with a firm statement that lies and innuendo will no longer be tolerated ,neither will members of the media be that writers, interviewers,commentators that refuse to show impartiality....can you imagine a fully fledged blue being welcomed back to the swamp after doing a job on the rags ? In fact I can't imagine anyone associated with City lowering themselves as it's not in City's DNAThe drip drip impact of negative coverage is certainly damaging us but it's not that easy to combat. The printed and website media will always be biased for commercial reasons and that's why we suffer blanket coverage of the rags. It's the same in Spain with Barca, Real, and in Germany with Bayern.
The difference here is that coverage of City is often negative and nasty. There are many reasons for this and some of it is essentially racism towards our owners. The other factor is the way United have manipulated the media for years. Under Ferguson they were bullies.
I have heard some incredible stories about the way that club has conducted its business in the Manchester area over the years, nothing to do with football but they way they handle their suppliers for example. The rags have been doing this for years and have still got a lot of friends in high places.The bottom line is that they still have more influence than us and it will take decades for this to change but we have made a start.
The thing that annoys me the most is the BBC online coverage. It is one of the world's biggest websites and we can't afford to let them continue to trash us. The "Pete the Badge" thing is more damaging than a lot of people think. Our PR team has to fight back on these sort of issues but still needs to pick its battles carefully.
Agree with your points but this type of thread is always polarised.The 'long game' argument always tickles me. What exactly are we waiting for? All the present reporters/journalists to die of old age?
By that time the next generation will have been brainwashed into thinking we're shit on a shoe as well.
So exactly how long is this imaginary long game? I'd like to see some balance before I'm six feet under if that's possible.
This.“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"
Be patient. At least they are paying attention to us.
This.
No point going full Trump on them.
Enough rope and all that....
I'm glad someone else noticed that throwaway remark from that scouse twat this morning.I uderstand that point and it was one I agreed with but how much rope do we have to give these parasites. Dunn on 5Live admitted that the press were all of one mind when the 3rd Monaco goal went in all ready to slam Guardiola. Where is their journalistic integrity about reporting what they see rather than constantly making it about individuals be it players or managers. When as a kid I used to read match reports that discussed the highlights of the game. Now a goal is almost reported as an afterthought behind the central narrative about what the writer wants to say
One cannot stop them watching matches but dont make it easy for them
I hate the rags with a passion but i wish we had their PR dept