is it just me.......?

or has "The News" started some sort of hate campaign against Barker. lets be honest, we would all be wishing for a higher position in the league with out the concern of a further relegation........ but given the budgets, mentality, fitness and such forth I don't see how our season would really have been any different.

I just don't get why a so called supportive journalistic medium seems to relish in publishing stories that are potentially very damaging to the team......in general and on match day.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/p...ks-volumes-as-fans-voices-are-heard-1-5947813

this is a link to a story breaking earlier this evening, dont see any real need for it to be printed......as he gave them a match interview on video directly after the game.....The News launched it on line!

I noticed recently that "The News" chooses match day to bring up stories and interviews with Barker that happened days previously, surrounding payers and those likely to be axed in the summer, a story also appeared suggesting barker was going to try and renegotiate contracts to get players out...........surely with the world being what it is, the speed in which news travels now with social media such as twitter, players can pick up on these links just as they are going out on the turf........to me its madness and probably a hate campaign. the games I have not been able to get too, which is rare i tend to have the "live" game commentary gong.......there are definite tendencies leaning to towards barker not being liked.

I know we all have our say, some like and some don't and need more convincing, but surely, at this stage, rallying round the team i s what's needed, not downing....JMO

 

I don't think they've got a 'hate campaign' going, but they also aren't an arm of the club. It's not for them to toe the party line. Their job is to report, independently, on local news, to sell their newspaper. We can't expect them to "rally the troops", that's the job of the club, the Manager, the CEO and the Chairman, not the local newspaper although they gave space to the call for unity from Mark Catlin yesterday, and the final sentence on this article is a call for unity from Jordan Cross.

They seem to get most of their information from readers comments on their own forum, by trawling social media as well as the interviews they get from club officials and rumours they pick up from those 'in the know'. A lot of readers buy the paper for news about Pompey so it isn't surprising that they drag out an interview for 3 or 4 days, there just isn't an awful lot of news from the club at the moment.

This story comes as no surprise. I saw a tweet yesterday about the player not wanting to give an interview. As far as Barker goes though there is a lot of noise about his appointment which may not have been given voice if we had won a lot of games, but we haven't and we're skirting around the relegation zone so Barker is fair game.

There has been a lot said on social media about some of the songs and chanting at games, home and away, by a certain section of the fans - but the News aren't going to comment very much on that, because those fans are their readers.

The thing is that the sports reporters are actually Pompey fans themselves (in the main) and are syndicate shareholders in the PST, but their job is to report on what is going on at the moment and their articles are just a reflection of that.

 

I think the news often post opinion pieces on a Thursday, not all of which are negative.

As for the timing of stories, I think it's probably just a case of spreading out articles/interviews/reports over the course of a week (assuming no midweek matches) in order to ensure there is something to post each day, a bit like I do on the Portsmouth Ladies Facebook page. Rather than posting them all in a day or two immediately afterwards.

 

3rd eye, I hear what your saying, and yes of course the job of a journo is to find a story of interest to help sell papers, but considering that we are a "Community" club I disagree with what you are saying in as much as it should be the call of every one, as a community to help rally the club. I would suggest that there are plenty of other avenues the "News" could go down rather than printing some of the stories of late.

Lets be honest, there have always been fractions with in the so called faithful that when ever we go through a rough ride, the songs and slagging start.........quite honestly I question whether they are fans at all or just descendants of the old 657, with nothing better to do!

So what if the club go quite, going by Catlins comments earlier this week, every one at the club is afraid to say diddlysquit for fear of a story appearing out of context and at the wrong time!

PUP

 

At least they're not the Reading Chronicle.

 

I don't know what it is with local papers slagging off the football team. When I lived in Plymouth the Evening Herald nearly always had a negative headline on the back pages about Plymouth Argyle.

 

I don't disagree with your sentiments BP but although we are a Community Club, Johnston Press, a national company, who own the News are not part of that. They don't see themselves as part and parcel of Pompey's PR department - nor should they. To them their "community" are the people who purchase their product and bad news always sells more of their product than good news - just a fact of life really. For an independent company they actually provide a pretty good service with PompeyLive on match days (even though their reporters get dogs grief from a lot of the posters) a lot of the papers in their group don't provide any service like that at all for their local clubs.

Express FM on the other hand do promote themselves as a "community" company and do work hand in hand with Pompey as they are paid to provide a service on matchdays. I don't think they are paid by Pompey but by the FLi sponsored Pompey Player and just chosen by Pompey to provide the service rather than the BBC.

I suppose the other thing to bear in mind is that neither of these companies employ "journalists" as such, they are pure and simple "reporters" and do no digging for newsworthy stories at all.

 

The reason I posted up the topic, was to gauge whether it was just me or whether there were others that saw what I did, judging by the comments some agree, you dont......simples. The main reason I posted my topic was as a direct result of some comments placed on said "live" chat on match day, Jordan cross seems to be quite on the fence, others for me made comments incredibly detrimental to the manager and the club...........which for me were a bit too near the nuckle, especially as said journo went on to produce stories which quite frankly do the club any good prior to a match.

Have to agree to disagree then