He's very good at his job to be fair and has made an absolute fortune out of doing what he's doing. Fair play to him. He spotted a huge gap in the market and grabbed it.
He's up there with Ornstein for breaking news and attention/followers etc.
Spot on about him identifying a new gap in the market and making the most of it, fair play I suppose.
I just can’t stand influencer culture, because by definition it’s just attention-seeking for the sake of attention, rather than doing your job. Publishing it on your own Twitter for your own clout means the story isn’t about the story, it’s about yourself. It’s so narcissistic, and has to be by definition, because that’s how you get paid - by clicks and views. And if you’ve got nothing to report you still need the views, so can just make up sensational stuff (I know tabloid newspapers have been doing this for hundreds of years too).
There’s an interesting debate about new media in there. Publishing news under a traditional masthead comes with a range of checks, balances, history and assurances of some kind of quality and trust. Some guy talking **** on his own Twitter is just a guy talking **** on Twitter, regardless of how good his sources are.
There are hundreds of fantastic sports journalists (Sid Lowe’s my favourite, but there’s many brilliant writers at the Times, Guardian, even the Mail and Telegraph) and it irrationally annoys me for some reason that this guy is acting like a Kardashian and everyone laps it up as if he’s some kind of transfer market savant. Transfer gossip isn’t Pulitzer-winning stuff either, most sports news reporters either report what other outlets are reporting, or just put out what they’re told to put out by agents and clubs.
