Journalism in RL : Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:25 pm  

I’d say aside from Aaron Bower, the “big name” rugby league journalists are generally crap. They either plagiarise other peoples work or get their “facts” from these forums. League Express in particular has gone downhill and the likes of SARL do the sport more harm than good with their gobsheet.

[Sadfish]

Re: Journalism in RL : Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:45 pm  

we are at rock bottom for journalism in the UK generally, in RL it has been a sliding scale for decades.

The recent spats on twitter over copy just brings what has been happening out into the open.

I am ex-NUJ, it is just an old boys club these days.

Re: Journalism in RL : Thu Jan 05, 2023 1:24 pm  

I wouldn't be in a rush to credit any of them. Any decent investigative journalist would have a field day with the goings-on at the RFL in recent years but bar a few critical tweets there has been nothing of any substance, to my knowledge anyway.

Re: Journalism in RL : Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:24 pm  

Was just browsing some articles on the internet and was thinking how bloody awful most of it is. Decided to read some forums which I rarely do these days and lo and behold I’m not alone in thinking so. It seems to be all hearsay, speculation and rumour with no substance and poorly written too. Seems as with many aspects of our game there’s not sufficient money in it for anyone to actually bother putting any effort in.

Re: Journalism in RL : Fri Jan 06, 2023 10:16 am  

The click bait on serious about rl is terrible, I've purposely stopped reading their stuff because it's a headline grab with no real content or interesting stuff behind it. And it's always regurgitated news articles that weve seen somewhere else first

Re: Journalism in RL : Sat Jan 07, 2023 10:32 am  

Long gone are the days of Dave Hadfield, Andy Wilson and Chris Irvine.

Re: Journalism in RL : Sat Jan 07, 2023 2:53 pm  

Saw an interesting Twitter spat earlier this week, a League Express employee (Callum Walker) being accused of ripping off numerous articles and passing them off as his own.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Journalism in RL : Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:27 pm  

SFW wrote:

Saw an interesting Twitter spat earlier this week, a League Express employee (Callum Walker) being accused of ripping off numerous articles and passing them off as his own.

Yeah that'd the serious about rl clickbait guy, Davidson and others hate him for ripping their stuff off and not even crediting them, and now he's been given a job at league express which is really REALLY poor judgement on sadlers part

Re: Journalism in RL : Sat Jan 07, 2023 5:29 pm  

Coverage of RL is minimal nowadays in the UK National Newspapers, unless there is some news that is in anyway negative towards the sport.

The sport used to get a reasonable allocation until the Northern Editions of various newspapers were discontinued and were moved to London.

[Mild Rover]

Re: Journalism in RL : Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:38 pm  

There’s no money in it. It’s been a cycle of declining quality and ever less willingness to pay for it. Clubs have there own websites to announce news and interpretation is covered by forums and social media. The BBC and Sky provide adequate match reports. So it’s small niche and we’re conditioned now to expect rolling news and updates.

Being a RL journalist now must be a bit like being one of the last television repair men (or ‘person’, if they survived into modern times).