Football agent on twitter 'outs himself'

[ditchy]

Ooooh interesting. Who does he pretend to be?

An economics lecturer !

 

[leigull]

Brilliant.

Really hope it starts to put an end to these stuipid 'ITK' twitter accounts. Keep seeing people tweet these people asking if they have any news on their club, absolutey ridiculous.

 

[middletoenail]

This was the bloke who owned 'The Moose' yesterday. I turns out that this was one of 'his' sources!

 

[bassking]

again, just proves what a load of shit twitter is.

my thoughts entirerly

 

[Safeway]

Twitter: preying on the stupid since 2006.

 

[Surrey_Albion]

Take a bow son!!! that is brillaint!!!

 

[Guinness Boy]

I think the main issue here is how much the lazy modern journolist relies on Twitter as a source of information

This. Lost count of the number of times I see the hashtag #journoquest tweeted too. It's not a condemnation of twitter though. Just some of the stupider people that use it. If you read a bit more of his timeline he's been called out plenty of times. Twitter is as life - a small amount of interesting, funny and correct reading in a sea of shite, half truths, lynch mobs and half investigated causes. You've just got to be careful who you follow.

 

[trueblue]

I think the main issue here is how much the lazy modern journolist relies on Twitter as a source of information

It's not all laziness though. If a player puts something out there through a genuine account, then turning that into the quotes for a 'story' is perfectly acceptable I think - it's no different to requoting them from any other interviews - in fact, more accurate. The problem is when the 'source' is not reliable.

The other difference these days is the massive amount of media outlets all covering the same sport. By its very nature, that means most journalists are simply collating information from other journalist's stories and rehashing it. Most won't get access to the subject of their stories and, if they all could, managers would need 26 hours a day to answer all the calls. So a cursory check with a press officer is likely to be the only verification and a lot of the time they won't provide anything meaningful. But that newspaper still has to be filled.

If in doubt, just put 2 and 2 together and make up something plausible - nobody's going to sue. If you get lucky, 'scoop'. If not, nobody will care. Several entirely unrelated sentences can work well enough.

For instance "Brighton and Hove Albion could turn to former Bolton striker Ivan Klasnic in a bid to boost the club's firepower before the transfer deadline. Manager Gus Poyet has so far been frustrated in his attempt to land a goalscorer and remains keen to find a permanent solution rather than turn to the loan market. Klasnic, Wanderers' top scorer last season, is a free agent and is understood to want to stay in English football".

Job done. Column filled without any outright lies. Off to the pub.

 

[Driver8]

Don't we have our own version of him?

 

[Hove Seagull]

Are we signing Ivan Klasnic?

 

[HastingsSeagull]

THIS is the whole point of twitter, lmao

 

[Waynflete]

It's not all laziness though. If a player puts something out there through a genuine account, then turning that into the quotes for a 'story' is perfectly acceptable I think - it's no different to requoting them from any other interviews - in fact, more accurate. The problem is when the 'source' is not reliable.

The other difference these days is the massive amount of media outlets all covering the same sport. By its very nature, that means most journalists are simply collating information from other journalist's stories and rehashing it. Most won't get access to the subject of their stories and, if they all could, managers would need 26 hours a day to answer all the calls. So a cursory check with a press officer is likely to be the only verification and a lot of the time they won't provide anything meaningful. But that newspaper still has to be filled.

If in doubt, just put 2 and 2 together and make up something plausible - nobody's going to sue. If you get lucky, 'scoop'. If not, nobody will care. Several entirely unrelated sentences can work well enough.

For instance "Brighton and Hove Albion could turn to former Bolton striker Ivan Klasnic in a bid to boost the club's firepower before the transfer deadline. Manager Gus Poyet has so far been frustrated in his attempt to land a goalscorer and remains keen to find a permanent solution rather than turn to the loan market. Klasnic, Wanderers' top scorer last season, is a free agent and is understood to want to stay in English football".

Job done. Column filled without any outright lies. Off to the pub.

There's a great book called 'Flat Earth News' about how stories get picked up and circulated blindly because in the age of 24 hour news journalists don't have time to check anything. The result is completely fictitious stories being accepted as fact, the millennium bug being one example. Twitter has made this even worse, as this legend has shown!

 

[trueblue]

Are we signing Ivan Klasnic?

Haha! You read it here first...

...wouldn't mind that though!

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Just shows that you take stuff seen on Twitter with a pinch of salt, unless from an official source. Doesnt make Twitter a load of shit, thats just how it goes anyway.

 

[collins91]

lol

 

[HovaGirl]

Again, just proves what a load of SHIT Twitter is.

It's for twits.