By Arc Vice Pro-Consul for attacking pole riding journos - Brigadier Jonathon Spittoon-Fullbrook
Chief football writer for the Herald Sun Mike Sheahan makes a few valid points in this blog.
Probably the most telling for me was his assertion about 'sour grapes' and I most definitely agree that it was sour grapes.
He seems to premise his relationship with those in the football world as being equal; like so many employers arguing that workers conditions should be agreed to under the common law contract. But the crucial difference is that the worker or in this case the 'subject matter' on the end of the story is nowhere near on an equal footing with the power that he has at his disposal.
He also argues in his 'closing statement to the jury' that his “fundamental task /role is to chase/break/report/analyse news." I say he’s being disingenuous here. The fundamental role is to make profits for shareholders through selling copy.
The fact that someone may or may have not beaten them to a story burns journalists to the core and often leads to the 'subject matter' being pilloried in further editions of the high quality journals we have in this country.
The rubbish that spews from the ‘brain’s of football writers is a blight on good taste and standards. The Arc hates your fucking rubbish.
You’re right Mike, most of us won’t side with you on this one, perhaps it’s because we know what journos are about and how they go about it. But that’s not your fault Mike; you’re a product of a corrupt, greedy and grubby system/institution.
Eat Dick.
Probably the most telling for me was his assertion about 'sour grapes' and I most definitely agree that it was sour grapes.
He seems to premise his relationship with those in the football world as being equal; like so many employers arguing that workers conditions should be agreed to under the common law contract. But the crucial difference is that the worker or in this case the 'subject matter' on the end of the story is nowhere near on an equal footing with the power that he has at his disposal.
He also argues in his 'closing statement to the jury' that his “fundamental task /role is to chase/break/report/analyse news." I say he’s being disingenuous here. The fundamental role is to make profits for shareholders through selling copy.
The fact that someone may or may have not beaten them to a story burns journalists to the core and often leads to the 'subject matter' being pilloried in further editions of the high quality journals we have in this country.
The rubbish that spews from the ‘brain’s of football writers is a blight on good taste and standards. The Arc hates your fucking rubbish.
You’re right Mike, most of us won’t side with you on this one, perhaps it’s because we know what journos are about and how they go about it. But that’s not your fault Mike; you’re a product of a corrupt, greedy and grubby system/institution.
Eat Dick.
