We're Coventry Not Greater Brum

Last updated : 06 November 2008 By Covsupport News Service

The one thing that Coventry City's victory at Birmingham City on Monday night showed was the way the Birmingham based media is still as biased towards Birmingham City and all things Brummie.

Central News coverage was biased to the point of being offensive to every right minded Coventrian with their 'goal that was not' stance and sections of the Birmingham written press equally obnoxious to a side who dared to temporarily halt the progress of Birmingham's glorious march back to the Premier League.

My good mate of long standing Smiles from GMK summed it up perfectly in his column when he said today:

"How welcome was the 'grace' of the officials over what ITV Central News called 'the goal that never was', perhaps that 'grace' will go some way to rebalance a number of dubious decisions thus far in the season, (a couple actually in the Brum match!) that didn't go our way! But the interesting thing about those words, and indeed many others, from the Birmingham based 'Midlands Media', (The BBC apart who, in my view, have always been fair), was the less graceful opinion that in some way we didn't deserve to win the game."

If this is the way that the Birmingham based media which considers itself to be Midlands orientated operates, then they can shove it.




Coventry and Warwickshire has enough good media of its own. If you want to know what is happening in Coventry, then buy the Coventry Telegraph, read the Coventry Observer and Coventry Times freesheets, listen to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire or any of the Coventry baeed radio stations or click on a Coventry related website.

You'll find far more information and news far better than anything likes of the Birmingham Post, Mail and Sunday Mercury, whose interest in anything Coventry is only a way of trying to sell a few more papers, can come up with.
With television, it is been felt that Coventry & Warwickshire should have its own television station but with the BBC and ITV controlling things, local stations which are prevelant in many countries are not likely to happen here for the foreseeable future.

The BBC do provide better coverage and do have their own Coventry correspondant but fail to understand that most Coventrians want to see cameras on our streets and news articles relating to Coventry more often than when there is a crime or something bad happens.

So what can Coventrians do about it?. Well that's up to you but supporting the Coventry based media rather than anything from Birmingham will show the Brummies that they cannot treat us the way they have, the next time the Sky Blues win in Brum.