10-09-2022, 08:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2022, 08:06 AM by Rick Pumpkin.)
(10-09-2022, 05:50 AM)Hammie Wrote:(08-09-2022, 09:05 PM)Rick Pumpkin Wrote:(08-09-2022, 08:56 PM)scumslayer Wrote: Neil Allen is a class act and one of the last of his kind. Truth be told, his work is probably carrying the title now. There will come a day when he goes, or they cannot afford him any longer, and that day will be the knell for the paper.
I like Neil Allen's books but as a journo I've never thought he's that much, especially when every sentence is short and it's own paragraph. Compare him to other sports journalists like either Richard Forrester or Sam Frost at the Bristol Post, or Colston Crawford on the Derby Mail, and they can actually write interesting and in-depth articles. When was the last time The News had one of those?
if those are match reports, I'd excuse him as he is probably write them while watching the game, sending in a sentence at a time rather than a considered view.
I actually thought his match reports were the best things he churned out for The News! It's the other dirge that looks like it was written by a bored ten-year-old that was one of the reasons I stopped reading the paper (I used to subscribe) - well, that and the headlines designed to get the most clicks via news aggregator websites like NewsNow. His books show he has talent but in his day job he seems to have dropped to the level required by the paper.
If I read a newspaper match report nowadays, which is very rare as I tend to stick to the OS reports, it'll be from the opposition point of view. Like I said in an earlier post the Bristol Post is very objective and as I discovered last weekend, the Peterborough Telegraph doesn't like to see their team lose!
It's a pity The News has turned out the way it has but that seems to be the National World business model - pay peanuts, pepper everything with ads (AdBlock counted 122 ads on one page just now!) and turn every article to clickbait.