Jamie Jackson

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How is this man employed by one of the biggest newspapers in the country to cover one of the biggest teams in the world? His writing style reads like a sixth former, barely coherent sentences with the odd obscure word he found in the thesaurus.

What’s most perplexing is his recent obsession with Mourinho’s demeanour, he’s written at least three articles on this in the past week or so.

Last nights article on the game was entitled “Win over Leicester unlikely to put an end to Jose Mourinho moanathon”...

“Moanathon”?
Broadsheet newspaper journalist ffs.

Anyway, his constant snide articles about United are fairly annoying and he’s a tiresome little goon. Not quite threadworthy but I couldn’t find the original JJ thread. Soz.
 
I've thought this for a long time. His sentence structure is appalling for a bloke that writes books as well as newspaper reports. Consider that Daniel Taylor (reponsible for some of the best investigative journalism sport has seen in years - Bennell scandal) was his predecessor on the beat, it's one hell of a step back. Especially for a newspaper that employs some brilliant sports reporters and writers.
 
You would live a happier life if you just blocked out all media when it comes to United.
 
sugar_kane said:
How is this man employed by one of the biggest newspapers in the country to cover one of the biggest teams in the world? His writing style reads like a sixth former, barely coherent sentences with the odd obscure word he found in the thesaurus.

What’s most perplexing is his recent obsession with Mourinho’s demeanour, he’s written at least three articles on this in the past week or so.

Last nights article on the game was entitled “Win over Leicester unlikely to put an end to Jose Mourinho moanathon”...

“Moanathon”?
Broadsheet newspaper journalist ffs.

Anyway, his constant snide articles about United are fairly annoying and he’s a tiresome little goon. Not quite threadworthy but I couldn’t find the original JJ thread. Soz.
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In fairness he's unlikely to have chosen the headline, but my god is that article badly written.
 
HI IM JERRY JACKSON WELCOME TO MY NEWSPAPER
 
Always thought this too. Easily the worst technical writer of the big broadsheet journos. Mad that he has such a high profile job.
 
Have you witnessed his midlife crisis on Twitter as well? He’s got an alias called Jamie Paradise. It’s a flurry of Hawaiian shirts and despair. I think he’s written a novel.

Tragic.
 
At The Guardian you basically have Daniel Taylor and a team of complete hacks. Jackson takes the piss though. It's like he won a prize to cover football.
 
He is a prime example of a shitehouse who makes money out of being extremely incompetent in his "job, while people (like me) work their arses of in the healthcare with a minimum salary. I fecking depise him and a lot of other journalists. Tancredi Palmieri deservs a shout in this.

Seeing his shite work boils my blood
 
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Thought the same when I read that this morning. Mourinho came across very well in his post match interviews. Trying to force the narrative felt lazy at best.

Before we start blowing smoke up Daniel Taylor's arse, when he had Jamie Jackson's job, he wasn't shy of printing rumours and garbage about United as fact.
 
Irish Jet said:
At The Guardian you basically have Daniel Taylor and a team of complete hacks. Jackson takes the piss though. It's like he won a prize to cover football.
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Richard Williams is the best, but doesn't do much football these days. The guy who does the cartoons is excellent too.
 
Haddock said:
David Conn is exceptional. Far better than Taylor. Smyth (of shredding his legacy fame) is probably the best sports feature writer in the anglosphere. Their cricket writers are excellent.
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I really enjoy reading Barney Ronay although I appreciate he's not to everybody's taste.
 
I’ve seen him on a couple of Fulltime Devils (shut up, I know) discussions and unless he wasn’t introduced as a professional football journalist, you’d struggle to pick out which one was.
 
A couple of years ago, I got told by another journalist (generally considered reliable by caftards) via Twitter DMs that Jamie Jackson doesn't have any sources and isn't respected by his fellow journalists.

I realise that above sentence sounds like something a 12 year old would make up about someone not worth making anything up about, but I saw a thread about him on here and thought I'd share. And yes it is strange that a journalist DMed a nobody like me about that, but there ya go! I asked him a question and he DMed me an answer
 
LawCharltonBest said:
A couple of years ago, I got told by another journalist (generally considered reliable by caftards) via Twitter DMs that Jamie Jackson doesn't have any sources and isn't respected by his fellow journalists.

I realise that above sentence sounds like something a 12 year old would make up about someone not worth making anything up about, but I saw a thread about him on here and thought I'd share. And yes it is strange that a journalist DMed a nobody like me about that, but there ya go! I asked him a question and he DMed me an answer
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I'd say that's fairly obvious from the transfer stories he writes in fairness.
 
Haddock said:
David Conn is exceptional. Far better than Taylor. Smyth (of shredding his legacy fame) is probably the best sports feature writer in the anglosphere. Their cricket writers are excellent.
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Forgot all about him. He's brilliant.

Taylor's work on the abuse investigation was phenomenal.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
A couple of years ago, I got told by another journalist (generally considered reliable by caftards) via Twitter DMs that Jamie Jackson doesn't have any sources and isn't respected by his fellow journalists.

I realise that above sentence sounds like something a 12 year old would make up about someone not worth making anything up about, but I saw a thread about him on here and thought I'd share. And yes it is strange that a journalist DMed a nobody like me about that, but there ya go! I asked him a question and he DMed me an answer
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Heard that too.
 
Kag said:
I really enjoy reading Barney Ronay although I appreciate he's not to everybody's taste.
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I still remember his artice when Fergie retired. It went long the lines of " he is not the best manager the british isles have produced, but he has had an interesting career". Sometimes he goes overboard with his use of metaphors.

That said, his article on David de gea's performance against Arsenal last year was very good, not gonna lie.

When I read the Guardian, most of their journalists come of as snobs. I read a quote somewhere that says " the people who read the Guardian think they ought to run the country " and fits the newspaper to a tee.
 
Always thought the guardian had a pretty decent bunch, with a few shit ones....which is quite a high standard.
It’s usually the odd good one (if that) amongst a load of shit
 
I've had the misfortune to listen to him mumble & slur his way through a report or two on TalkSport, and even among the "brain trust" that make up their breakfast shows, he sounds as thick as mince! And to make matters worse his information is usually both inaccurate and hopelessly out of date.
 
T00lsh3d said:
Always thought the guardian had a pretty decent bunch, with a few shit ones....which is quite a high standard.
It’s usually the odd good one (if that) amongst a load of shit
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Agreed - I like most of their sports coverage, and most of their football writers are good (not at getting transfer scoops, but at actually writing well about the game).

But Jackson is shit
 
I only really bother with Sid Lowe.
 
That's what happens when you are a shit journalist but have been in the "game" for too long. You start thinking you can make a living out of false news so you go ahead and keep writing controversial bollocks, not giving a single feck to the quality of it as long as it sells.

"When a man's bitterness towards Manchester United and his incompetence to actually write anything half-decent meet, the boundary between his head and his arse is finally shattered. Creating a portal near his bottom which sucks his own head in. The man, still blinded by his hatred and incompetence, also with his head now buried deep inside his arse, can't help but to keep writing bollocks in newspapers and online sites as a way of living. He's made Manchester United and Mourinho his enemies, living off the profits He made from spreading false news which are totally opinionated and far from the truth. His head and arse are his most trustworthy sources." - Maily Dirror

*Applies to most "football journalists" out there
 
The Guardian (sometimes) leaves their comment section open for articles. The article that OP is referring to does have an open comment section. And here some of the top comments are.....
Game's been over for 20 minutes and already a "Jose's whinging again!" article. FFS.
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Definitely written at about 10am this morning. Nice
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Jackson moaning about Jose's moaning is a bit tiring right now. United won. Jose seemed quite happy, but now Jackson's become a bit of a moaner when United wins.
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Moanathon? Jamie, you are enjoying this a bit too much. Pre season is over, you can stop being so precious now
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The irony of a press constantly moaning about someone who moans so much..
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I'm confused Jamie, you promised us that Maguire or Boateng would be in a Man Utd shirt for this game. Surely that appeased Jose?
Come to think of it you were fairly certain Dele Alli would be playing for Manchester red last season so...
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How about instead of saying how ‘unlikely’ something is going to be, let’s just wait and see what happens? No? Ok then. Narrative and all that.
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Kag said:
I've thought this for a long time. His sentence structure is appalling for a bloke that writes books as well as newspaper reports. Consider that Daniel Taylor (reponsible for some of the best investigative journalism sport has seen in years - Bennell scandal) was his predecessor on the beat, it's one hell of a step back. Especially for a newspaper that employs some brilliant sports reporters and writers.
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Billy Jim said:
Always thought this too. Easily the worst technical writer of the big broadsheet journos. Mad that he has such a high profile job.
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Strats said:
He is a prime example of a shitehouse who makes money out of being extremely incompetent in his "job, while people (like me) work their arses of in the healthcare with a minimum salary. I fecking depise him and a lot of other journalists. Tancredi Palmieri deservs a shout in this.

Seeing his shite work boils my blood
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groovyalbert said:
I’ve seen him on a couple of Fulltime Devils (shut up, I know) discussions and unless he wasn’t introduced as a professional football journalist, you’d struggle to pick out which one was.
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Glad to see I’m not the only one.

I leafed through his book on the Moyes era at United and it was cringeworthy. It read like Alan Partridge had written it.

Such a shame as well as it’s an interesting subject (in a morbid way)
 
Speedicut75 said:
I've had the misfortune to listen to him mumble & slur his way through a report or two on TalkSport, and even among the "brain trust" that make up their breakfast shows, he sounds as thick as mince! And to make matters worse his information is usually both inaccurate and hopelessly out of date.
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I heard him the other evening too.

Such a hatred for United, wouldn't look out of place in the United Forum.
 
RyRy11 said:
You would live a happier life if you just blocked out all media when it comes to United.
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Spot on.
Strats said:
He is a prime example of a shitehouse who makes money out of being extremely incompetent in his "job, while people (like me) work their arses of in the healthcare with a minimum salary. I fecking depise him and a lot of other journalists. Tancredi Palmieri deservs a shout in this.

Seeing his shite work boils my blood
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Very true
 
I used to hang around the Guardian comments section before coming here and yes he is the worst. He has undergone a massive transformation this year though, made a complete u-turn from living inside Mourinho's asshole.

He did similar transformation for LvG too, apparently he was asked to shut up in one of our press conferences and since then went after LvG too.
 
sugar_kane said:
How is this man employed by one of the biggest newspapers in the country to cover one of the biggest teams in the world? His writing style reads like a sixth former, barely coherent sentences with the odd obscure word he found in the thesaurus.

What’s most perplexing is his recent obsession with Mourinho’s demeanour, he’s written at least three articles on this in the past week or so.

Last nights article on the game was entitled “Win over Leicester unlikely to put an end to Jose Mourinho moanathon”...

“Moanathon”?
Broadsheet newspaper journalist ffs.

Anyway, his constant snide articles about United are fairly annoying and he’s a tiresome little goon. Not quite threadworthy but I couldn’t find the original JJ thread. Soz.
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Oh and I think we can forgive him for that title, apparently the journos don't write the clickbait titles it seems, sub-editors or some others do that it seems.
 
I'm not defending what he writes, but absolutely nothing is stopping you from simply not reading his articles. The better question is to ask yourself why you feel compelled to read his articles if they annoy you so much.
 
He's a joke but the best re-course would be to not give this prick any more attention.

I know you're reading this, get fecked you clown!
 
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