Long Hot Summer of Lazy & Inept Journalism

Tuesday, 16 June 09, 01:02 PM · Comments(0)

Well it is out here in Switzerland where I seem to get sun burnt despite wearing T-shirts, hats and cream... Damn the hot burning ball of flame.

Meanwhile as I peruse the various blogs it does seem that most of them are suffering from varying degrees of the annual summer madness. There's only so many ways you can talk about nothing (as this blog is probably managing quite badly) or, at the most, something vaguely interesting. Never mind we can get through this summer of rumour with a little bit of U21 football (well at least it has some Arsenal interest), the Ashes, the Tour and anything but anything to avoid the rumours.

Cesc did show his frustration with the whole media (and the worst of the Spanish media at that) way of spinning half a sentence or even just a word to fit into a story that they had already written. There, in a nutshell, is the problem with modern journalism. Instead of going out and discovering a story, analysing it and then writing it we get journalists who think of a story (truth, half truth or bollocks), search around on the net for some vague quote or half story that backs up their story and then write it. In the same way as TV prepares for big games with the story of the game already written the written press do the same and, in a way, it's not surprising. It's far easier to write the story before the game/interview etc as then you don't actually have to pay much attention to the real facts just the ones (or perceptions) that you need.

Long Hot Summer of Lazy & Inept Journalism

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