The media, us and the rags - the truth

[mat]

-- Mon Apr 29, 2013 4:13 pm --

Makes you wonder what is manipulated....

 

[francis henry lee]

Cooper is bad but this twat is worse. Forever asking loaded questions the sly c unt.

Who is he? He looks like a snake.

Fraser Dainton....

i met Fraser Dainton about 12 months ago i collected a car from him we got talking about football and city maybe winning the league he told me he was from leeds and hoped we "won the league instead of the red bastards" as he said he hated them......make of that what you will but he seemed genuine enough about it

 

[blueyorkie]

As some of you know, I write for King of the Kippax and in my last article I wrote about the power of the rag’s PR machine and how ruthless they were about putting out their version of the “truth” in order to bolster their image as “the world’s greatest club”. So Baconface’s comments after the derby that they dominated the second half and RVP had a stormer, whereas our goal was clearly offside and his comments after the Arsenal game that their fans never boo a returning player were designed to cement an image with the public that we know isn’t true. I also pointed out that Ian Herbert, nominally the northern football correspondent for The Independent, had written one after another story about them (10 out of his last 12 I think it was at the time I wrote the article).

I was contacted by a freelance journalist I know who told me it was pretty well spot on and asked me who’d given me the information. I told him it was my own opinion based on what I’d seen. He then said there was more to it and contrasted City’s handling of the press with the rags’. Contrary to popular belief, freelancers make up the majority of the reporters as opposed to the salaried journo’s like the Custis’s, Ladyman, Herbert, Taylor etc. So if they ban Ladyman for example, The Mail will send someone else or use a stringer. However it’s serious for the freelancers if they get banned as it’s their livelihood and they don’t get paid if they can’t report so they have to toe the rag party line. Personally I think it’s despicable that they could stop people earning a living (unless it was for something really serious of course) but it shows just how ruthless they are.

He then talked about how City and the media interact. He said he felt we didn’t control our press conferences well and let the media take the piss out of Mancini by taking advantage of his relative lack of English and asking questions they know we’ve told them not to ask. But the most shocking thing was that he said that, after our press conferences, the red-top journalists then sit down together and actually agree between them how they’re going to spin it. So anyone who doesn’t think there is a media agenda needs to think again.

Spot on Colin, transparent for anyone to see.

 

[blueyorkie]

Media manipulation was never more evident in United's favour than the Nani incident against Real Madrid.

My take on the challenge was that it should have been a Yellow but with each viewing it looked worse so nobody can complain about the Red.

The day after it was if someone had died. Blatant propoganda from all outlets implying that United had been robbed unjustly.

Correct, identical challenge to Marios against Kiev, same ref, same decision, very different media reaction. Shame for the rags, first proper team they played and they bombed out:-))

 

[jrb]

The Premier League's new chairman Anthony Fry is a Manchester United fan

Fans will no doubt focus on his Manchester United affiliations - especially at a time when the Football Association has just appointed Greg Dyke - also a United fan - as their chairman.
With former Manchester United chief executive David Gill expected to become English football's representative on Uefa's executive committee in the summer, some may be suspicious of an Old Trafford carve up at the top of the English game.

 

[mancity dan]

Who is he? He looks like a snake.

Fraser Dainton....

i met Fraser Dainton about 12 months ago i collected a car from him we got talking about football and city maybe winning the league he told me he was from leeds and hoped we "won the league instead of the red bastards" as he said he hated them......make of that what you will but he seemed genuine enough about it

Happy birthday Franny. ;o)

 

[pirate]

The Premier League's new chairman Anthony Fry is a Manchester United fan

Fans will no doubt focus on his Manchester United affiliations - especially at a time when the Football Association has just appointed Greg Dyke - also a United fan - as their chairman.
With former Manchester United chief executive David Gill expected to become English football's representative on Uefa's executive committee in the summer, some may be suspicious of an Old Trafford carve up at the top of the English game.

some? nearly fuckin everyone

 

[Deleted member 52846]

Media manipulation was never more evident in United's favour than the Nani incident against Real Madrid.

My take on the challenge was that it should have been a Yellow but with each viewing it looked worse so nobody can complain about the Red.

The day after it was if someone had died. Blatant propoganda from all outlets implying that United had been robbed unjustly.

Not true. Keys and Grey were saying it was a red and they didn't know what the papers were on about.

 

[Thenumber1blue]

Good post PB but I already knew all this !

 

[M24-CRC]

As some of you know, I write for King of the Kippax and in my last article I wrote about the power of the rag’s PR machine and how ruthless they were about putting out their version of the “truth” in order to bolster their image as “the world’s greatest club”. So Baconface’s comments after the derby that they dominated the second half and RVP had a stormer, whereas our goal was clearly offside and his comments after the Arsenal game that their fans never boo a returning player were designed to cement an image with the public that we know isn’t true. I also pointed out that Ian Herbert, nominally the northern football correspondent for The Independent, had written one after another story about them (10 out of his last 12 I think it was at the time I wrote the article).

I was contacted by a freelance journalist I know who told me it was pretty well spot on and asked me who’d given me the information. I told him it was my own opinion based on what I’d seen. He then said there was more to it and contrasted City’s handling of the press with the rags’. Contrary to popular belief, freelancers make up the majority of the reporters as opposed to the salaried journo’s like the Custis’s, Ladyman, Herbert, Taylor etc. So if they ban Ladyman for example, The Mail will send someone else or use a stringer. However it’s serious for the freelancers if they get banned as it’s their livelihood and they don’t get paid if they can’t report so they have to toe the rag party line. Personally I think it’s despicable that they could stop people earning a living (unless it was for something really serious of course) but it shows just how ruthless they are.

He then talked about how City and the media interact. He said he felt we didn’t control our press conferences well and let the media take the piss out of Mancini by taking advantage of his relative lack of English and asking questions they know we’ve told them not to ask. But the most shocking thing was that he said that, after our press conferences, the red-top journalists then sit down together and actually agree between them how they’re going to spin it. So anyone who doesn’t think there is a media agenda needs to think again.

Good post PB, very enlightening. Be interesting to see what some of our posters think. They are usually all over stuff like this like a rash.

i couldn't give a shit really.
i dont buy papers as they are all full of shit anyway, not just shit about us.
agenda...........so what if there is (although there isn't)......just means they are scared of us taking over