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fran-MLs little camera said:
http://www.espnfc.co.uk/barclays-pr...46286/englands-future-bright-thanks-to-saints

ESPN article so fulsome about Saints you would think it had been written by our media department. :)
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Or even a Saints fan:emoticon-0105-wink:

CHRIS RANN
Chris Rann is a football-obsessed Southampton fan who runs the blog georgeweahscousin, which made the four-site shortlist for the 2012 football blogging awards. He has also written for many leading sites and magazines. Follow him on Twitter @crstig.
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Well, firstly size is more than just league position, otherwise you could say Man City are bigger than Man United, which they really aren't. Secondly, it's extremely unprofessional for a supposedly unbiased news site to use site divisive terminology and talk about 'the biggest club in the south', instantly alienating Reading, Portsmouth, Brighton fans, none of those clubs are exactly tiny. Though in the media's eyes, the south doesn't exist, so as Southampton are the only southern team in the premier league, they're clearly the only southern team that actually exists.
 
Haha! The article wasn't even claiming to be unbiased. He doesn't hide he is a Southampton fan in his bio. I'm not sure Pompey can even use their "history" as much of a fall-back for being a big club these days. They sold it to the devil for one last day out in Wembley. Reading have the capacity to be a similar status club, but they have very rarely been at our level in the last 40 years. Brighton and Bournemouth? No. Seriously, no. Should we worry about upsetting Eastleigh too?
 
spacedsaint said:
Haha! The article wasn't even claiming to be unbiased. He doesn't hide he is a Southampton fan in his bio. I'm not sure Pompey can even use their "history" as much of a fall-back for being a big club these days. They sold it to the devil for one last day out in Wembley. Reading have the capacity to be a similar status club, but they have very rarely been at our level in the last 40 years. Brighton and Bournemouth? No. Seriously, no. Should we worry about upsetting Eastleigh too?
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Fan or not, you should be impartial or you shouldn't work in journalism. Sure, write your own blog and be as impartial as you like, but this article is written on behalf of a mainstream media organisation. I am sick of the amount of bias and lack of partiality in media, to such an extent that certain papers are famous for being left or right wing. The job of the media isn't to tell people what to believe, but to give them the facts to form their OWN opinion. The media would do well to remember that. Fat chance.
 
Unless it's a public funded media source, the job is to write what sells.

I suspect you meant impartiality (no criticism intended)
 
If you're looking for sound journalistic principles you'd be best off avoiding the internet. Everything is click bait.

edit: that said, premier league owl is good.
 
PompeyLapras said:
Well, firstly size is more than just league position, otherwise you could say Man City are bigger than Man United, which they really aren't. Secondly, it's extremely unprofessional for a supposedly unbiased news site to use site divisive terminology and talk about 'the biggest club in the south', instantly alienating Reading, Portsmouth, Brighton fans, none of those clubs are exactly tiny. Though in the media's eyes, the south doesn't exist, so as Southampton are the only southern team in the premier league, they're clearly the only southern team that actually exists.
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Why is he alienating the fans of those clubs? Saints clearly are the biggest club in the south. He's only being truthful.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
http://www.espnfc.co.uk/barclays-pr...46286/englands-future-bright-thanks-to-saints

ESPN article so fulsome about Saints you would think it had been written by our media department. :)
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It's Only A Game said:
Or even a Saints fan:emoticon-0105-wink:
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As you correctly noted, the article was written by Chris Rann. The chap also noted for those half hour audio blogs with monotone Dan. :)

PompeyLapras said:
'The reputation of the biggest southern club outside of London has grown from that of nurturers of talent to Dream Factory.'

What the actual ****?
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You, along with an awful lot of others [me included sometimes], ought to read up a few posts of a thread before you react. :)
 
tomw23 said:
Why is he alienating the fans of those clubs? Saints clearly are the biggest club in the south. He's only being truthful.
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But then our fans get upset when the media say it is only a matter of time before x or y leaves Southampton for a bigger club. I don't believe reports can be unbiased you have to have an opinion, however the most relevant thing and the point to boast should be the youth and academy development.
 
And the statistically best goalkeeper in the Premier League sits... in the stands. Ben Foster is sub-goalkeeper.

I'm beginning to think Roy Hodgson picks his teams with a Ouiga board or a roll of the dice. It would also account for the randomness of Clyne's debut, and the fact that Keiran Gibbs starts at LB.
 
OddRiverOakWizards said:
But then our fans get upset when the media say it is only a matter of time before x or y leaves Southampton for a bigger club. I don't believe reports can be unbiased you have to have an opinion, however the most relevant thing and the point to boast should be the youth and academy development.
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That's also quite unprofessional, it's putting a subjective judgement on the worth of a club. Somehow bigger clubs are 'worth' more. And I don't mean financially, but they are somehow perceived to be better, and by implication 'small clubs' are worse, not important, etc.
 
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