The Fear
A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
As a small aside, I think many don't understand the pressure the press guys are under these days, to churn out 'something' and to try to get people clicking. They aren't seen as journalists or reporters now, they are as good as information compilers (I saw one established journo say the game has gone when he was told that title) and they have little to no choice (apart from finding new careers/not easy when you have qualified and wanted to do this) but to do what their paymasters say.
Then they face the wrath of the vile social media, especially twitter, people who are just non stop abusive but still click the fucking articles in order to slate them.
It has changed massively, and yes, 90% or more is junk.
Some might remember I used to do transfer articles, I tried to talk about the benefits or otherwise of the players linked, if I thought the link was right or not, who the incoming player might complement or replace and so on and so forth. And then I'd do a long list in this annual thread, of all the links. At the end of the summer, I'd cross out all the false links. Most were crossed out! You try that sort of detail these days and people don't want it, they want a throwaway line and some bullshit about who clicked what on twitter.
The newspaper people have seen a slow decline of their industry, the internet being so much newer, i believe I've seen a quick decline. I could do an article disagreeing with the majority on Grealish for instance, and say it is up to the manager, and so on. You can guarantee if you then put that on twitter, you'd get dogs abuse because you aren't agreeing with the majority.
I think MF who has been in this game a long time also, @mike_field will also confirm, it is a right shit storm now.
So don't shoot the messenger I guess is what I am saying, they have kids to feed and mortgages to pay and actually, if people didn't want to be fed this crap, we'd still be getting decent, deep analysis stuff, not twitter reacts!
Then they face the wrath of the vile social media, especially twitter, people who are just non stop abusive but still click the fucking articles in order to slate them.
It has changed massively, and yes, 90% or more is junk.
Some might remember I used to do transfer articles, I tried to talk about the benefits or otherwise of the players linked, if I thought the link was right or not, who the incoming player might complement or replace and so on and so forth. And then I'd do a long list in this annual thread, of all the links. At the end of the summer, I'd cross out all the false links. Most were crossed out! You try that sort of detail these days and people don't want it, they want a throwaway line and some bullshit about who clicked what on twitter.
The newspaper people have seen a slow decline of their industry, the internet being so much newer, i believe I've seen a quick decline. I could do an article disagreeing with the majority on Grealish for instance, and say it is up to the manager, and so on. You can guarantee if you then put that on twitter, you'd get dogs abuse because you aren't agreeing with the majority.
I think MF who has been in this game a long time also, @mike_field will also confirm, it is a right shit storm now.
So don't shoot the messenger I guess is what I am saying, they have kids to feed and mortgages to pay and actually, if people didn't want to be fed this crap, we'd still be getting decent, deep analysis stuff, not twitter reacts!
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