#bbcsalford

[Diego]

Pretty sure the one about Eckersley is just because people have posted about it on social media.

"Although perhaps not a household name, it is perhaps surprising that in this social media age it took the best part of six months for Eckersley's Manchester United past to be outed in the South Devon town"

Nothing but lazy journalism there, same as the story they had on this morning about one of the US women's footballers getting kicked out of Disneyland for being too pissed. Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy nuts

Paranoia is very real and very serious when left untreated

 

[saintanton]

Not so much lazy or location based, they can do their internet crawls from any desk in the world.
Hacks get paid for filling pages and selling papers, when there is a story to tell then any club could feature, when there is no news then any old **** about the big sellers is brought out.
Just think about it, United, Liverpool, City, Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal (usually in that order on a quiet day) get all kinds of unsubstantiated transfer rumours or player unrest or what can the manager do now (if in an up-beat mood how great things are) stories written about them just to fill columns.

Pretty sure the one about Eckersley is just because people have posted about it on social media.

"Although perhaps not a household name, it is perhaps surprising that in this social media age it took the best part of six months for Eckersley's Manchester United past to be outed in the South Devon town"

Nothing but lazy journalism there, same as the story they had on this morning about one of the US women's footballers getting kicked out of Disneyland for being too pissed. Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy nuts

It may not have been obvious, but I was actually on your side here. I've long maintained that it's just lazy and inept journalism from the Beeb rather than true bias, though obviously I'm happy to jump on the piss-take bandwagon.
I think there may well be a subconscious casual bias for the club down the road (which is wrong, because they're a national organ) but I don't think it's a conspiracy.
I do think the standard of sports journalism is dreadful generally. There are so many stories which show either a lack of knowledge, or a lack of interest in their subject, no requirement to check sources or come anywhere near the truth, very little or no editorial control and poor grammar.
This latter being a cardinal sin for a journalist, imo.

 

[Diego]

It may not have been obvious, but I was actually on your side here. I've long maintained that it's just lazy and inept journalism from the Beeb rather than true bias, though obviously I'm happy to jump on the piss-take bandwagon.
I think there may well be a subconscious casual bias for the club down the road (which is wrong, because they're a national organ) but I don't think it's a conspiracy.
I do think the standard of sports journalism is dreadful generally. There are so many stories which show either a lack of knowledge, or a lack of interest in their subject, no requirement to check sources or come anywhere near the truth, very little or no editorial control and poor grammar.
This latter being a cardinal sin for a journalist, imo.

TBH I have always picked up on you view of "lazy" rather than biased, just having a small pop at others with the paranoia comment

 

[saintanton]

TBH I have always picked up on you view of "lazy" rather than biased, just having a small pop at others with the paranoia comment

I read something a couple of weeks ago about us - I'm paraphrasing, but it said something like "Liverpool have been struggling lately and many people are pointing to their lack of firepower, but Garth Crooks has a different theory - he thinks it's their defence that's the problem"
How can anyone write this nonsense when every man and his guide dog can see our defence is ****, and has been for a long time?
Whoever wrote it is obviously oblivious to the real world around him.
And the less said about Garth the better, of course - he can't even put players in their right position when he picks his team of the week.