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saintKlopp said:
I assume they're trying to steal a living from it.
When we only had newspapers there was limited space and so only plausible stuff made it through. There might have been a few lines given over to some of the stronger rumours but little more. Everything was looked over by the editorial staff.
By contrast, there is almost unlimited space available now and it's full of chancers pretending to be journalists.
Their writing style and grammar is often poor, and what editorial control there is is probably all done by bots, and is rudimentary. Nobody has to justify their fairy tales, and of course there is no comeback for peddling completely inaccurate information.
Lazy writers make stuff up, even lazier ones repeat it, and suddenly a gullible public is convinced it's true because it's "all over the internet".
Of course this isn't confined to harmless things like sport - the same process helps to propagate completely baseless conspiracy theories - and then it's a much more sinister animal.
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I think you're right in everything you say here.

The media is the main way we find out about what's happening in the world. Do they have a responsibility to their consumers to be as accurate and truthful as they can be? As more and more of those involved in bringing us the news see it only as a way of making money, I'm not sure anymore.
 
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johnsonsbaby said:
I think you're right in everything you say here.

The media is the main way we find out about what's happening in the world. Do they have a responsibility to their consumers to be as accurate and truthful as they can be? As more and more of those involved in bringing us the news see it only as a way of making money, I'm not sure anymore.
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They still have a responsibility to be truthful and accurate but I'm not sure many outlets live up to it.
 
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saintKlopp said:
I assume they're trying to steal a living from it.
When we only had newspapers there was limited space and so only plausible stuff made it through. There might have been a few lines given over to some of the stronger rumours but little more. Everything was looked over by the editorial staff.
By contrast, there is almost unlimited space available now and it's full of chancers pretending to be journalists.
Their writing style and grammar is often poor, and what editorial control there is is probably all done by bots, and is rudimentary. Nobody has to justify their fairy tales, and of course there is no comeback for peddling completely inaccurate information.
Lazy writers make stuff up, even lazier ones repeat it, and suddenly a gullible public is convinced it's true because it's "all over the internet".
Of course this isn't confined to harmless things like sport - the same process helps to propagate completely baseless conspiracy theories - and then it's a much more sinister animal.
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All true, but obviously the whole point of clickbait is to increase clicks and get more advertising revenue. So there's an active incentive to make up as much as you can just to increase traffic and get more money.

It really annoys me that online headlines don't actually contain proper Information anymore so you have to click the link to find out what the actual news is.
 
Nozzer said:
All true, but obviously the whole point of clickbait is to increase clicks and get more advertising revenue. So there's an active incentive to make up as much as you can just to increase traffic and get more money.

It really annoys me that online headlines don't actually contain proper Information anymore so you have to click the link to find out what the actual news is.
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Even then you have to plough through a pointless preamble before getting to the point.
 
saintKlopp said:
Remember when we thought Covid would make the transfer market a little more restrained?
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yeah, halcyon days. Unless of course they were merely naivety at work.

paying 100mil for a luxury player who nobody wanted when villa were relegated is astounding behaviour. the guy still doesn't track back, that's why southgate wouldn't put him in.
 
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Liverpool have been linked with so many players this summer I can no longer count on my fingers:
Who have Liverpool been linked with?
Florian Neuhaus - Liverpool are trying to offload some of their fringe players or face having to wait until next summer to land the Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder - one of Jurgen Klopp's chief targets (Daily Mirror, July 30).

Adama Traore - Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is prioritising the Wolves winger as he looks to add to his attacking options this summer, but he will face competition from Chelsea (Daily Express, July 28).

Saul Niguez - Reports claim that Liverpool's opening bid was rejected but did suggest that the Atletico Madrid and Spain midfielder had 'half a foot in Liverpool'. (Mundo Deportivo, July 11); Liverpool may include Xherdan Shaqiri or Divock Origi in a deal to sign the Atletico midfielder (Daily Express, July 15).

Federico Chiesa - Liverpool hold an interest in the 23-year-old but are not planning to take it any further as they consider him to be too expensive (Sky Sports, July 26); after a few weeks of a slow going in the transfer market, Liverpool are now going all out to sign Euro 2020-winning attacker Chiesa (Daily Express, July 26).

Don't really know what to believe again. We wait and see !!!.
 
DiogoJotaSuper said:
Liverpool have been linked with so many players this summer I can no longer count on my fingers:
Who have Liverpool been linked with?
Florian Neuhaus - Liverpool are trying to offload some of their fringe players or face having to wait until next summer to land the Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder - one of Jurgen Klopp's chief targets (Daily Mirror, July 30).

Adama Traore - Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is prioritising the Wolves winger as he looks to add to his attacking options this summer, but he will face competition from Chelsea (Daily Express, July 28).

Saul Niguez - Reports claim that Liverpool's opening bid was rejected but did suggest that the Atletico Madrid and Spain midfielder had 'half a foot in Liverpool'. (Mundo Deportivo, July 11); Liverpool may include Xherdan Shaqiri or Divock Origi in a deal to sign the Atletico midfielder (Daily Express, July 15).

Federico Chiesa - Liverpool hold an interest in the 23-year-old but are not planning to take it any further as they consider him to be too expensive (Sky Sports, July 26); after a few weeks of a slow going in the transfer market, Liverpool are now going all out to sign Euro 2020-winning attacker Chiesa (Daily Express, July 26).

Don't really know what to believe again. We wait and see !!!.
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neuhaus one is one that went quiet didn't it. It'd be the type of one we actually looked at. I don't quite know how many more we need to offload though. We already looking a bit average in midfield reserves
 
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