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I knew I knew that name before - Stuart James "Herald"
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I'll likely get burnt for this, but I think this witch hunt of Stuart James is at best misguided.
Content on the Herald/Plymouth Live site is at worst clickbait. They are suffering from the decline of print media, which is evident in the sheer volume of adverts on the site alone.
Even if James was a shameless anti-Argyle nonsense spouting Grecian, his opinion still wouldn't matter to me enough to warrant the kind of reaction I've seen on social media.
The joy of the modern age of the internet is that it's so easy to get outraged at something, but at the end of the day it solves nothing and only serves to cultivate further ill-will, which is exactly what I've seen on twitter (which is volatile enough).
We Are Argyle. And I'd expect better from our more high profile fans.
Roast away fellow Greens!
Content on the Herald/Plymouth Live site is at worst clickbait. They are suffering from the decline of print media, which is evident in the sheer volume of adverts on the site alone.
Even if James was a shameless anti-Argyle nonsense spouting Grecian, his opinion still wouldn't matter to me enough to warrant the kind of reaction I've seen on social media.
The joy of the modern age of the internet is that it's so easy to get outraged at something, but at the end of the day it solves nothing and only serves to cultivate further ill-will, which is exactly what I've seen on twitter (which is volatile enough).
We Are Argyle. And I'd expect better from our more high profile fans.
Roast away fellow Greens!
We are all individuals and are free to do what we want. There is no party line or three line whip. Do whatever you want to do just as I will.
Whatever the blokes allegiance, he's got people talking abd clicking over nothing of much substance. Well done to him I say, as I believe this is classed as professional journalism these days.
I donât specifically remember reading any of his articles but Iâm sure I have, I read the Herald every day, and take the Indy on Sundays. I certainly donât remember anything screaming out that it been written unprofessionally as a wind up.
He is accused of being negative and apparently was last season when he deputised for Errington in October. To be fair, the team werenât exactly giving him positive news stories during either period were they? He is simply reflecting what was happening. That included a couple of humiliating defeats, confrontation between supporters and management, management branding a minority of supporters âyobs.â I would be more concerned if the local journos werenât reporting this stuff. It might upset the, happy clapping, âAdams is the Messiahâ brigade but the journalists are only doing their jobs. I also think we will miss them when they are gone, which is why I think removing their link/boycotting them is just churlish.
I remember it used to bother people that Mark Tyler was openly an Exeter fan and Martyn Dean was often accused of it (although I donât think he publicly ever nailed his colours to the mast.) We all used to laugh at it and say how naff Jeff Welch was, how it was naff everyone else had a proper studio based programme and ours came from a different clubhouse/social club every week but what I would give to have a dedicated sports half hour on local tv again.
He is accused of being negative and apparently was last season when he deputised for Errington in October. To be fair, the team werenât exactly giving him positive news stories during either period were they? He is simply reflecting what was happening. That included a couple of humiliating defeats, confrontation between supporters and management, management branding a minority of supporters âyobs.â I would be more concerned if the local journos werenât reporting this stuff. It might upset the, happy clapping, âAdams is the Messiahâ brigade but the journalists are only doing their jobs. I also think we will miss them when they are gone, which is why I think removing their link/boycotting them is just churlish.
I remember it used to bother people that Mark Tyler was openly an Exeter fan and Martyn Dean was often accused of it (although I donât think he publicly ever nailed his colours to the mast.) We all used to laugh at it and say how naff Jeff Welch was, how it was naff everyone else had a proper studio based programme and ours came from a different clubhouse/social club every week but what I would give to have a dedicated sports half hour on local tv again.
Need to also be careful such targeted criticism of a specific individual doesnât descend, via the uncontrollable beast that is social media, into what amounts to orchestrated harassment.
MarkMatthews":2s7gpy0c said:
Ah, we long for the days of Dick Woodacre! He definitely tied his colours to the mast.
He may be doing that but he'd arguably say he was just doing his job.
My point being is by highlighting his allegiances some may go further than you'd like and over step the mark. Act like 'yobs' and such.
My point being is by highlighting his allegiances some may go further than you'd like and over step the mark. Act like 'yobs' and such.
IJN":1g46rfle said:
If âthe gafferâ hadnât called our fans yobs, then the journalist wouldnât have been able to print it. I donât see how the journalist can be blamed for Adamsâ words.
