Sport Journalism

when it's this bad surely their should be some level of accountability?

Newspapers and TV news spout utter nonsense every single day, at least football BS is largely harmless I guess

https://www.westsussextoday.co.uk/sport/football/rumour-has-it-juventus-star-to-tottenham-and-manchester-united-line-up-140m-swoop-for-england-duo-1-9104702

Give them a bit of credit though. They did change the URL!

comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 20 minutes ago
‘Rumour has it’ implies there is some weight to it, however tenuous

At least get the facking club right. What an utter moron
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It doesn't at all mean that anymore. With the advent of social media, most of the "news" is made up, i.e. fake.

Fake news sell. Most of the sporting news is also speculations and rumours, that have very little to do with the truth but a lot to do with guess work.

It is also a lot to do with click baiting.

People will read anything if it grabs their attention and right now, Spurs fans would read anything that has Eriksen written in the headline.

Don't get me wrong, I hate it when something wiuld grab my attention then when you look for the source, you see it is "rumour" based. In other words, no actual truth in it.

It used to be that a rumour is based on speculation which is based on some truth. But now, the content creators in the social media arena, inc journalists, are very liberal in how they produce content and less stringent about being "truthful".

Morespurs.

Juventus wanting to swap Rabiot for Eriksen is a rumour

PSG wanting to do that is a complete joke and nothing close to a rumour

comment by morespurs (U15748)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 20 minutes ago
‘Rumour has it’ implies there is some weight to it, however tenuous

At least get the facking club right. What an utter moron
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It doesn't at all mean that anymore. With the advent of social media, most of the "news" is made up, i.e. fake.

Fake news sell. Most of the sporting news is also speculations and rumours, that have very little to do with the truth but a lot to do with guess work.

It is also a lot to do with click baiting.

People will read anything if it grabs their attention and right now, Spurs fans would read anything that has Eriksen written in the headline.
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Bloody hell mate you’re reading too much into all this

The point isn’t whether lazy journalism sells it’s just about bad journalism can be,

*how bad

I know Rabiot is a priiiick but I’d be well happy if this is true.

So I’m believing it

The obit MoreSpurs put in his local rag to the late Jimmy Greaves is just as embarrassing as that article

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