The media, us and the rags - the truth

[LoveCity]

You only need to look at this completely unrelated story about two Werder players being banned for driving. 1/4 of the story involves City and of course with the implications that we're soft on players compared to the Germans.

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[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Internet traffic so important to the papers these days and i have noticed the stories in the MEN are getting more ridiculous and sensationalist by the week particularly when it comes to stories about the two clubs such as parades, no of local supporters etc etc..these stories inevitably result in traffic and red against blue which they want.

The MuEN is part of the Mirror group of newspapers now, so no surprise there.

 

[The perfect fumble]

The long game is the only game City has.The excellent original post from Prestwich-Blue, and all the subsequent posts, have done a good job in cataloguing all the scum media fire power that can and is brought to bear against City. Against such overwhelming odds it would be pointless for City to take on the press, if this were a military campaign, no one would takes on these superior numbers.
It hurts us because we see it on a daily basis, the misrepresentation of the club is relentless all played out against a backdrop of pro Utd coverage like constant muzak you can't switch off, it stings because it seeks to demean and belittle the club we love and it is successful.
I live in Norwich and talk with Norwich fans all the time, City is hated here even more than Utd, we are the embodiment of everything that is wrong about football, the Norwich fans argument is one long stream of red top anti City talking points and I can't imagine it's any different anywhere else.
But we and the club have to take it, we have absolutely no choice. I'm of the strong opinion that the Ferguson succession will not be a smooth one and Utd will stumble big time, that will not bring about a sea change in favour of City, but it will give us an opportunity, we need to be in a position to seize it. But even if we do it will take years, if at all, before we can begin to redress the balance. I suspect Prestwich-Blue could re-post this in ten years time and even if everything goes to plan in City's favour, it will still ring true.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Great post PB. Absolutely spot on.
It really is time for the club to start doing something about it - following the rags lead.
We've tried the softly softly approach and it clearly doesn't work.

 

[jrb]

The long game is the only game City has.The excellent original post from Prestwich-Blue, and all the subsequent posts, have done a good job in cataloguing all the scum media fire power that can and is brought to bear against City. Against such overwhelming odds it would be pointless for City to take on the press, if this were a military campaign, no one would takes on these superior numbers.
It hurts us because we see it on a daily basis, the misrepresentation of the club is relentless all played out against a backdrop of pro Utd coverage like constant muzak you can't switch off, it stings because it seeks to demean and belittle the club we love and it is successful.
I live in Norwich and talk with Norwich fans all the time, City is hated here even more than Utd, we are the embodiment of everything that is wrong about football, the Norwich fans argument is one long stream of red top anti City talking points and I can't imagine it's any different anywhere else.
But we and the club have to take it, we have absolutely no choice. I'm of the strong opinion that the Ferguson succession will not be a smooth one and Utd will stumble big time, that will not bring about a sea change in favour of City, but it will give us an opportunity, we need to be in a position to seize it. But even if we do it will take years, if at all, before we can begin to redress the balance. I suspect Prestwich-Blue could re-post this in ten years time and even if everything goes to plan in City's favour, it will still ring true.

I had similar problems on SSC, even though many who post on there are well informed and open minded.

Ever since Mansour bought the club it has been slaughtered on the PL thread. However, after showing what the future plans are for the club and local area, as well as posting regular updates, and exposing the farce that is FFPR, along with all the other cartel clubs that have bought success throughout their history, I sense less animosity and more understanding. Obviously there will always be those who will never change their minds, no matter what information and arguments you put over.

Unfortunately if you read the Sun, Mirror, etc, comments pages, you can see how brainwashed most football fans are regarding city. They really haven't got a clue about buying success(self generated) and FFPR.

 

[Chris in London]

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.

It makes complete sense - as with so many other things, you follow the money and it takes you to the truth.

Would anyone find it surprising to discover that the rag PR machine knows exactly who is a freelance journalist and who is therefore more susceptible to this sort of pressure?

 

[hertsblue]

I am just surprised no one has mentioned our owners instead of Mahmood al-Zarooni in the recent horse doping incidents all over the news as they contantly get information wrong about our owners :)-

 

[Bobbies Black Bins]

It's not just the printed press..

MOTD on Saturday was embarrassing...

No match comments just a dig at Aguero for not scoring then a 5 minute Rag wankfest.

 

[rag_hater]

Do people really think that banning Journo's that apparently all hate us is going to make them all get together and write nice stuff about us,get real.
And if the media all love the rags so much why has the whiskey sodden old twat had so many reporters banned from the swamp on a regular basis

 

[Deleted member 52846]

The long game is the only game City has.The excellent original post from Prestwich-Blue, and all the subsequent posts, have done a good job in cataloguing all the scum media fire power that can and is brought to bear against City. Against such overwhelming odds it would be pointless for City to take on the press, if this were a military campaign, no one would takes on these superior numbers.
It hurts us because we see it on a daily basis, the misrepresentation of the club is relentless all played out against a backdrop of pro Utd coverage like constant muzak you can't switch off, it stings because it seeks to demean and belittle the club we love and it is successful.
I live in Norwich and talk with Norwich fans all the time, City is hated here even more than Utd, we are the embodiment of everything that is wrong about football, the Norwich fans argument is one long stream of red top anti City talking points and I can't imagine it's any different anywhere else.
But we and the club have to take it, we have absolutely no choice. I'm of the strong opinion that the Ferguson succession will not be a smooth one and Utd will stumble big time, that will not bring about a sea change in favour of City, but it will give us an opportunity, we need to be in a position to seize it. But even if we do it will take years, if at all, before we can begin to redress the balance. I suspect Prestwich-Blue could re-post this in ten years time and even if everything goes to plan in City's favour, it will still ring true.

That's true. But anyone with any sort of intelligence and football knowledge will see right though this bullshit from the media. Only the dullards will be falling for all this. Which is exactly why City don't react to anything.