so this agenda thing.

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Exeter Blue I am here said:
Ban-jani said:
Rooney's made captain for 7th place finishers last term, it's the main sports news on every
UK based internet site.

Aguero signs 5 year extension for the champions, not even the 5th headline.

LOL.
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Unfortunately this sort of post is manna from heaven for the anti-agendaists. The rags will always be bigger news than us in general terms, because they have had almost 50 years worth of unfettered access to global markets (largely born out of post-Munich sympathy), and acquired a fan base - if you can call them that - that dwarfs all other English teams, except Liverpool, whose 40 years worth of access stemmed from 2 decades of continuous success. When I lived in Hong Kong briefly some 25 years ago, they were virtually the only teams ever shown on TV. It is therefore neither unreasonable nor surprising that they should be Sky's, or the online newspapers', lead item more often than not. You need to get over that, because it's not the issue. More clicks, more sales, more profit.
The issue, is the continuous portrayal, or overall portrayal (because there are quite a few positive stories out there on City as well) of City in a negative light, or in a way designed to reinforce the image of us as tasteless, more money than sense, chavs, eating our saumon en papillote with tomato ketchup. Transfer fees inflated to include wages, players wanting to leave, players on 500k a week, Tevez costing 50m rather than 28m, the graveyard for English youth, graphics depicting relative squad costs whenever we play anyone from the poor side of town, the suggestion of dodgy deals, and so on and so on. Bias, laziness or agenda (in some capacity) - and personally I'd call it at about 50:30:20 on a completely unscientific and arbitrary basis - call it what you will, that's where the focus should be, not on daft stuff like Four Four Two magazine having more pictures per annum of Van Persie than David Silva
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That's actually a really good post, like most of yours.

Every journalist has to take an angle on a story, to make it pull the reader in. And with us the angle is often the money we spend. But that comes with the territory when you have pot loads of it, and the hard truth is that having tons of money given to us ultimately defines modern day city. That's why I get irritated with this "they all hate us"/"they want us to fail"/"they're all rags" opinion that most people who get involved in these threads propagate.

It just isn't like that. The tabloid media just writes stories, on every club, not just us, in a sensationalist way so that people pick them up off the newsstand. And in the main, negativity sells more than positivity. This argument isn't about Manchester City, it's about tabloid journalism. And if a single person comes on these breads crying about it, but they buy a tabloid, then they are a hypocrite.
 
ESPN's site is highlighting the beginning of the PL with a big picture featuring Alexis Sanchez on the left, granny shagger in the middle and Costa on the right.

Because everybody knows that Arsenal, the scum and Chelsea are the only teams that matter...
 
buckshot said:
ESPN's site is highlighting the beginning of the PL with a big picture featuring Alexis Sanchez on the left, granny shagger in the middle and Costa on the right.

Because everybody knows that Arsenal, the scum and Chelsea are the only teams that matter...
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Not sure what you're looking at, but on the main ESPN site, City have their own featured panel with three different articles about them.
 
<a class="postlink" href="http://espn.go.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://espn.go.com</a>

Interesting that the football specific site features those three, but their general sports site only features City.

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buckshot said:
ESPN's site is highlighting the beginning of the PL with a big picture featuring Alexis Sanchez on the left, granny shagger in the middle and Costa on the right.

Because everybody knows that Arsenal, the scum and Chelsea are the only teams that matter...
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I wonder what fans of:.....

Villa
Burnley
Palace
Everton
Hull
Leicester
Liverpool
The normal fans of City
Newcastle
QPR
Southampton
Stoke
Sunderland
Swansea
Tottenham
West Brom
West Ham

......think about that?
 
A small observation that may have been mentioned before. Watching Sky News sports section, they cannot bring themselves to show the Premiership trophy with blue ribbons, they have a picture with red. Agenda??
 
Another day another rag love-in on the beeb site. Every fuckin page has united lead pics and they even shoehorned a 21 yr old Beckham pic in there. I feel sick and it's only 7am.
 
Been saying this all summer to my mate. When we won the prem in 2012. They had a trophy with blue ribbons on all summer.
Then when United won it back, the trophy they shown in the graphics instantly changed back to red black and white ribbons. This summer however it's still the United ribbons. I know it only a small thing but it pisses me off a little.
Also, I mentioned this on the Sunday supplement thread. On the Sunday supplement they have changed the main image (through the fake window) behind Neil ashton to the Etihad. But the other fake skyline images are still old Trafford. I only noticed this because it should be west gorton and I used be able to see my old house on it after the 2012 prem win
Sky are cunts
 
Some agenda: in DM's article with headlines

"Louis van Gaal has ripped up Sir Alex Ferguson's blueprint! Things will never be the same at Manchester United again"
The writer talks about Kompany out of nowhere.

...In 16 seasons at club level, Van Gaal — who has won seven league titles — has finished outside the top three on just three occasions, but his aim will be to get United into the Champions League. I expect a strong challenge for the top four but, to get there, they still need two quality defensive additions.

As a target, that is at odds with everything United have strived for over the past two decades. But these are changing times — and nothing shows that more than the man who will oversee matters against Swansea this lunchtime.
In charge: Van Gaal dishes out orders to Holland players during the World Cup in Brazil earlier this summer

I'm hoping for another colossus like Kompany (??)

During the middle of the best World Cup we have seen for a long time, I lamented the lack of top-class defenders who are operating in the world game now.

While it was terrific to see so many countries engage attack and look to score so many goals, I just felt there was something missing — a standout display, the kind we used to get from Franco Baresi, Jurgen Kohler and Marcel Desailly.

Players of that ilk, though, are few and far between and that has been shown by the fact that Barcelona and Manchester United, two giants of the game, were scraping to sign Thomas Vermaelen from Arsenal. He is a good defender but he couldn’t displace Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker.

Elation: Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany lifts the Premier League trophy at the end of last season

We all loved seeing so many goals at the World Cup and, of course, we will want to see the new Barclays Premier League campaign lit up with the same kind of entertainment and flair, but I would also like to see some top-class defensive displays, too.

I have made my admiration for Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany clear on these pages before.

He continues to set the standard, so it will be fascinating to see how Eliaquim Mangala fares alongside him after his £32million move from FC Porto. Liverpool have spent big on Dejan Lovren and Manchester United will continue looking for a big addition until the transfer window closes.

Coaches always know that looking after the back is as important, if not more, than what happens up front.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2726292/Louis-van-Gaal-ripped-Sir-Alex-Ferguson-s-blueprint-Things-never-Manchester-United-again.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... again.html</a>
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Probably the writer just has ADD, but it's pretty funny.
 
You don't have to be an agenda-ist to accept that the media has a strong commercial interest in talking up United and Van Gaal at the moment. They may or may not want United to win the league, but they absolutely want United's fans to believe that they can/will win the league.
 
stonerblue said:
Another day another rag love-in on the beeb site. Every fuckin page has united lead pics and they even shoehorned a 21 yr old Beckham pic in there. I feel sick and it's only 7am.
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To be fair we do get two mentions on the gossip bit

Sagna's move may have been against the rules and Toure's not getting a new contract!
 
BTSport sent me a missive recently. Coloured envelope with Dick van Miffy in solo mode scoring the GotS. Inside the cover of the book/pamphlet had City winning the title and then fuck all in the rest of the book. MANUre appear again with the usual culprits. Nothing changes.
 
jackqueen said:
http://espn.go.com

Interesting that the football specific site features those three, but their general sports site only features City.

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People just finding things to get pissed off about and completely ignoring things like this, for a change.
 
KippaxCitizen said:
jackqueen said:
http://espn.go.com

Interesting that the football specific site features those three, but their general sports site only features City.

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People just finding things to get pissed off about and completely ignoring things like this, for a change.
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Indeed they do. I just watched a Sun Sport on Sunday ad for tomorrow's papers, with part of the ad showing 2 united fans crying in the car, with a load of city fans walking past, obviously celebrating another derby win.

As for the posts re the PL trophy, it's usually red and navy blue throughout the season - Sky's colours.
 
Pigeonho said:
KippaxCitizen said:
jackqueen said:
http://espn.go.com

Interesting that the football specific site features those three, but their general sports site only features City.

2r61y7o.jpg
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People just finding things to get pissed off about and completely ignoring things like this, for a change.
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Indeed they do. I just watched a Sun Sport on Sunday ad for tomorrow's papers, with part of the ad showing 2 united fans crying in the car, with a load of city fans walking past, obviously celebrating another derby win.

As for the posts re the PL trophy, it's usually red and navy blue throughout the season - Sky's colours.
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Not sure that's true. When we won it the first time I seem to recall the trophy always had blue and white ribbons. It's a minor annoyance but nothing more.
 
If anyone who believes that there is not a media bias against the club in certain papers could read the article in The Guardia regarding Toure and then listen to the press conference from MP and explain that there is no bias.

There are lies damn lies and Guardian articles. The line that did it for me "Asked if Touré may be one, the manager would not be drawn. “We will see in the next days,” he said, though it is understood that Pellegrini was referring to Dzeko and not Touré."
 
Pigeonho said:
KippaxCitizen said:
jackqueen said:
http://espn.go.com

Interesting that the football specific site features those three, but their general sports site only features City.

2r61y7o.jpg
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People just finding things to get pissed off about and completely ignoring things like this, for a change.
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Indeed they do. I just watched a Sun Sport on Sunday ad for tomorrow's papers, with part of the ad showing 2 united fans crying in the car, with a load of city fans walking past, obviously celebrating another derby win.

As for the posts re the PL trophy, it's usually red and navy blue throughout the season - Sky's colours.
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I think they actually did have sky ribbons on a couple of years ago.

Anyway, over the Summer BT and Sky had billboards with us celebrating goals, one with Suarez looking gutted in the background, one with us lifting the Prem trophy...when in years gone by they have had images of a player from all the top teams, even with United as champions. If that was the case this Summer we'd have people on here saying "are we not that champions? you wouldn't know it, they're trying to hide it that's for sure!"

If we'd had the Summer of adverts that Arsenal have had there'd be uproar!

Yet - using your example - we have an advert with a United fan crying in a car with City fans celebrating outside and this place ignores it and just looks for, searches high and low, even in the depths of the shite press just to find a small derogatory remark. This week the word was "splashing" about us "splashing the cash" (yes something a trivial as this gets twenty pages on this forum) yet the advert with the United fan crying is totally ignored.

Had it been a City fan crying and United fans outside celebrating, you could all 100 pages to this thread.
 
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