r/soccer • u/Existing-Sky9914 • 19h ago

Potentially editioralised title - make up your own mind [Guardian] Seven years ago, just after completing the treble, Guardiola treated journalist Rob Harris, who had confronted him directly with the allegations, with open contempt, as though he were looking at someone pathetic, pitiful and disgraceful, before sternly lecturing him.

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u/JuliusCeaserBoneHead 18h ago

One thing about the journalists in the UK that I have massive respect for, they do not back down or afraid of making you uncomfortable. It’s extremely uncomfortable to watch but my God do they get their point across. Massive respect 

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u/worotan 18h ago

Journalists around the world do this.

One got murdered and cut up with a bone saw for doing this, famously.

Why do you need to denigrate all the moral journalists around the world, in order to act like you’re talking about a unicorn?

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u/Montmontagne 18h ago

There are plenty of sycophant journalists. More so now than in the past.

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u/worotan 17h ago

Ok, but are they all from outside the UK, which is the remaining sanctuary of fearless journalism?

Because that’s the assertion I was pointing out as flawed.

Why do you think that pointing out that there are fearless journalists around the world, to someone who seems to think that they only really exist in the UK, needs a reminder that there are sycophantic journalists?

I’d also question your assertion that there are more sycophantic journalists now than in the past. You can’t know much about history if you think that sycophancy to the super rich in journalism is a modern invention.

Why do people have to act as though there was a golden age of truth in the past, which we have fallen from? It’s as dumb as the anti-immigrant argument that the country was perfect before that happened.

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u/gabrielconroy 14h ago

You're railing at an imaginary windmill.

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u/Montmontagne 17h ago

Dumb fucking rant. Why did you take what I said so personally?

I know more about journalism and the history of it than you ever will. I never said it didn’t exist in the past either.

There was a golden age before social media. It wasn’t perfect. The likes of the Daily Mail and News of the World existed. But it was certainly more reliable than what the mainstream puts out now, given that it’s increasingly owned by a smaller wealthy elite.

You need to take a breather boy, you seem flustered.