The Sterling-bashers might want to consider why he in particular was singled out for that attention given that he's not an especially niggly player who goes around winding up opponents. Could it have been that they saw him as a dangerous opponent and decided to try provoking a reaction from him?Haven't read much today, but i assume the Media are going mental and backing Sterling over the Columbian assistant elbowing him at half time? If Balotelli was English or he was still around and that happened at a City game.
OUT OF ORDER
I couldn't agree more. There is still some brilliant journalism out there, even sports journalism, but public demand for it is low. I would add that some newspapers have committed commercial suicide and accelerated the impact of the Internet. The MEN social media bosses for example seem to have done a great job of alienating both City and United fans in their circulation area despite the sterling efforts of people like Stuart Brennan. It takes some doing to unite Blues and Rags!Agree with most of that. Don't think they have lost touch with their core audience through lesser standards, however - those standards have simply been lowered to meet with a generation who have no concept of anything before the internet.
That core audience has either died or, like most things in this life now, they don't need to get off their arses in the first instance to achieve a similar outcome, whether it be buying clothes or ordering food online. Society seems to prefer a condensed version of everything to make life easier.
As I suggested in a previous post, sometimes society gets what it wants. They want Corrie and Eastenders, they get it, never mind what a disgusting waste of time it must be.
A generation of obese kids, McDonalds and the supermarkets tailor to suit, we still have a choice in terms of the parents but for the sake of an easy life...
Those same people could go to the newsagent and buy a newspaper which might provide a more in-depth article, but why, when they can read it in 200 words on the same click bait site via their mobile?
Shortcuts - whether it be in journalism or life.
I think there is a lot of this line towing stuff that is foisted upon journo's. When the blaggers like Custis lose it the actual journo's all rip him to shreds. It is a shame other stuff gets to cloud the reporters to often although some i feel are very happy writing any old bollocks they are told to write, Custis being one of them.Is it fair to say that any paper will skew its views to suit its subscription base ?
If so then pre written stories will surely have that bias. I understand financial constraints and perhaps headlines being changed or even written by editorial staff.
In short, even if certain journos are fantastic at their job I wonder how many will be allowed to write a fair well balanced report ?
It goes down to opinion personally I am a fan of Henry Winter
The public haven’t driven down the standard of reporting the journalists themselves have with their need to be firstTo be fair Dom, Lawton is a quite brilliant sports news reporter, as his pieces on Team Sky have exposed.
There's a difference between a scapegoat and being accused of racism, and IMO there is no racist undertone to the 'runner' as it is called, in terms of a first edition.
Sterling has had his issues and hasn't helped himself at times (I actually squarely blame Liverpool fans for most of that), but I see it here as nothing more than lazy journalism- most reporters are already prepared for matches with a couple of potential lines, certainly makes the job easier when on deadline and a game can change in a dying second (even some of it written in advance)
It was reported the day before that it would by 999 days without a Sterling goal for England, so it's an easy one to have in the can on the laptop, should it be easy to top and tail it.
A lot of confirmation bias is now going on with regards Raheem, it has seeped into the public conscious and unites tribal footballing loyalties and becomes topical enough for lazy media narratives.
I used to see the bad in everything Richard Edgehill did in a City shirt - I never looked at his race - it was me convincing myself that he was shit at everything.
On a slightly different tangent, the public get what they deserve. They have created the driving down of journalistic standards across the world, based on nothing more than laziness created through a dependence on the internet.
The media are giving them what they want because of the commercial reality to exist.
After being a subscriber to The Times online for 10 years I finally terminated it this season.
My main reason was the reporting by Henry Winter and his cohorts on City this past season in particular but in HW’s case going all the way back to Mancini’s appointment.
There was also a mention of Matthew Syed and his extremely extreme views re our ownership.
Sometimes enough is enough.