Dot Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Dom howson is our new reporter now Paul Thompson has retired. A Pig who has a red and white twitter page. 24 hours and 32 pages after the Antonio transfer has been discussed on here/twitter/facebook he claims "my sources tell me" likewise skysports reports "skysports understand" what is the point of these people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SallyCinnamon Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Well they probably hear a rumour, try to pursue it from various contacts and then find out whether there is any substance behind it or not. How journalism works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taximark Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Dom howson is our new reporter now Paul Thompson has retired. A Pig who has a red and white twitter page. 24 hours and 32 pages after the Antonio transfer has been discussed on here/twitter/facebook he claims "my sources tell me" likewise skysports reports "skysports understand" what is the point of these people? It was LampsJnr that first broke this news yeasterday on here, must hold my hand up I thought it was yet another wind up, but he's proved me wrong, fair play Lamps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 the whole of Sheffield has heard it "my sources tell me" no wonder the Sheffield star has about 10 readers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WatfordOwl Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 The "my sources tell me" part for me is always the irritation, especially when probably 1 in 10 of the stories they run turns out to be right. I suppose it's more the age we live in were news can be instantly reported - far cry away from buying a copy of The Star and something being in physical print having a bit more credibility surrounding it. I wouldn't call a lot of them reporters - more just vehicles to constantly regurgitate any time anyone farts in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sheff Owl Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Media from outside of Yorkshire seem to break info long before any of the locals do. Then when they do they act like "my sources tell me" in reality they receive numerous tweets, read other media outlets and then pretend they knew all along. Always the last to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 The Star hasn't ever reported anything..they employ J T O under various names to report ITK info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sheff Owl Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Remember Andy Giddings and the Adam Le Fondre situation. My sources tell me Swfc haven't bid for Le Fondre. Only to find a short time later we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeye Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 They get it all off here anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Bach Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Knowledge is power. Speaking of which I thumbed through a copy of The Star in a petrol station the other day and it was waffer thin... So no knowledge or power I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrgund Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 It was LampsJnr that first broke this news yeasterday on here, must hold my hand up I thought it was yet another wind up, but he's proved me wrong, fair play Lamps. Was it the real Lamps Jnr I wonder? makes sense if so with his sources in the game I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambler Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Knowledge is power. Speaking of which I thumbed through a copy of The Star in a petrol station the other day and it was waffer thin... So no knowledge or power I'm afraid. It is very thin these days I have noticed. They keep trying to change the format inside it, but it probably just confuses OAP's. In regard to Dom Howson, I think a lot of other local journos source their info from him, as on Twitter you see them all retweeting what he has put. Obviously behind on this one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 It's tough for the local hacks now in the age of the internet. But when I compare the Sheffield papers to the ones in Newcastle (both very keen football cities) The journal and chronicle have many more reports and insights and it has more columns too from ex pros, people who can provide some actual insight. I guess it's all down to funding but it would be good if the star could do that. Thankfully our radio sports team is one of the better ones, or it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 It's tough for the local hacks now in the age of the internet. I appreciate that, I was thinking more of the tagging on to things rather than getting the "scoop" this has been discussed for 24 hours and had about 30,000 hits on this site alone to then post...."my sources tell me" its very sloppy...and we have this clown reporting on Wednesday for the coming season in the local press on what could be a very interesting season one way or the other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POWP Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Dom isn't a Pig, he's not even from Sheffield and is pretty impartial when it comes to us and them! I think if I recall correctly, he's a Man Utd fan from Stockport (I used to take pictures for the Sheffield University Steel Press newspaper when Dom was Editor back in 2008 (he was studying journalism at the uni)). He's a nice guy and to be honest I don't think he'll be at the star all that long as he's a decent hungry journalist who will push on elsewhere... it's those who get comfy who get lazy. Anyway, he's likely to have actual sources at the clubs or more people in the know... any journalist worth their salt does have this and won't just resort to using twitter, facebook or this site for news. So just because it's mentioned on here and he says "sources" don't presume they are the same thing... it's likely that rumours could have caused him to investigate further and back up a rumour to a real story of note Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando_Trustful Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Local journalism is as tinpot as it can get. The interviews and reports they make are just rehashed shyte, like MM's interview the other day. But, I suppose they can't write anything revealing or controversial as the club could ban them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevthelodgemoorowl Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Then Mr Howson needs to see about doing some proper work, he could start by buying some blue & white tinted specs ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southstand Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 It was LampsJnr that first broke this news yeasterday on here, must hold my hand up I thought it was yet another wind up, but he's proved me wrong, fair play Lamps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southstand Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Taxi mark it was I who first posted Monday lunchtime although got the bit wrong it looks on Simon cox coming other way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfmanjack Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I suppose Dom Howson is guilty of commenting on news, not speculation. If as is suggested here, he just re-hashed what was posted on this forum, he'd have been reporting on us signing the Hartlepool striker (remember somebody saw him at Hillsborough, when theis "somebody" was stuck on a red light beside the ground?), and countless other signings we've been making, according to people on this forum who are "In the know". Local journalists get slated on here, for speculating, but then they get slated for waiting for hard facts before reporting a transfer. It'd be interseting to know how many of the people who've slated Howson in this particular thread have ever worked as journalists, or have any sort of journalistic qualifications. It's almost like they need something to complain about, and Dom Howson appears to be their current target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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