feedmpenzaandhewillscore
Well-Known Member
Sports reporters used to pride themselves on writing a well-crafted balanced report without the clear bias and partisanship that exists today. The quality of reporting went downhill when the PL and Sky appeared centre stage and some third rate hacks have contributed nothing more than oblivious determination to drag it further into the gutter than it now is. Hatchet jobs on clubs, particularly one I could mention, and individual players - Sterling is a classic example of how the RDAHMeedya got the knives in to the point where every fuckin' touch was booed by opposition fans who wouldn't have the faintest idea why they were booing. I also remember that moron Dirty Dan Wanker when he had the opportunity of fronting an FA Cup tie - Scunthorpe v MCFC became Scunny v The Money. Bastard.
I’d say the decline in printed media has contributed to the piss poor journalism out there. Having a set number of pages and creating the demand for a reader pay for it has been replaced by infinite numbers of articles about nothing being provided for free and funded by clicks. Any essay writer or blogger can get stuff published, I know a lad who got an article published in the evening news about how improved United were last season. He wasn’t to impressed when I torpedoed his theory highlighting they got exactly the same points as the season before.
The question is if it was 15-20 years ago when people still purchased papers, would we pay for the shite fan boy articles posted on daily on the internet we see today? Rupert Murdoch would be selling his printing plants and not bothering.