This summer's transfer window has really summed up how disgusting Football fans are online, who most of them are relatively young and immature. But after seeing two tweets from two different journalists / broadcasters and the vitriol that is spread their way is quite frankly disgusting and needs to be stamped out of the game.
These guys aren't frauds, neither are they just making things up. They're qualified journalists who have been recognised by huge newspaper organisations, in Mittens case anyway as Tim is a commentator and mainly gives his thoughts and insights to things. Even still he's been recognised by huge broadcast companies such as Talksport. Regardless of how 'reliable' you may or may not think these are still major major organisations who just don't hire anyone.
It disgusts me to see this tweets calling them frauds and comparing them to fellow journalists. This is their job and their livelihood. Sure you could argue that it comes with the territory, criticism, yes, as long as it's respectable, then critisicm is fine. But to call them liars and frauds is the ultimate disrespect to highly qualified journalists and writers.
We don't know what they do or how they do it or how difficult it may be. None of us know the industry. We just see what we see on our end, I.e: articles and tv reports. We don't see the hours of work that goes in behind the scenes, the fact checking, the calling up various sources day in day out for hours on end trying to get the news out.
What do you get for it? Death threats and snotty nosed teenagers telling you how shite at your job you are because it's not what you wanted to hear.
I say it a lot, but Football is full of entitled fans who think that they know best.
What also upsets me is this whole "Tier" based system for journalists. What?!
Imagine how it must feel, if you'd work for years upon years working at lower level newspaper organisations (Such as local and community based newspaper orgs) and gradually cutting your teeth and working your way up for 10-15 years until you finally get the job that you want. For some snotty nosed entitled teenager or manchild telling you that your work is shite because it's not exactly the most positive news.
How disrespectful to be told "you know nothing mate" what do you think after all that work their just going to make something up and put it out there. Highly highly HIGHLY doubt it. All that journalistic intergrity that you've built up for a good portion of your life only to throw it away with a crappy article.
It's RIFE in this place too. All over the transfer tweets thread, there's plenty of arrogance and childish behaviour calling out journalists for simply doing their job. It's disgusting. I say it time and time again, but this place is great for it. Why is it that every bad news is treated like it's gospel, yet any good news, is BS, you know nothing, sorry excuse for a journalist and my favourite one by a country mile.....don't believe it....it's a brief. Good lord almighty.
These people are human too and they don't deserve the vitriol that gets spread their way. It happens nearly every transfer window and it needs to be stamped out. Call out this dickish behaviour, this isn't what football is all about. We shouldn't want brand new shiny toys each year, and ironically, start throwing your toys out the pram when it doesn't go your way and start being personally abusive to the journalists that provide you the information.
It's a tough job being a journalist, but they shouldn't be subject to this sort of behaviour from stupid snotty nosed teenagers and man children.
