Nick
Administrator
Despite my comment above I have no problem with the CT, for the most part. Andy Turner is a fine reporter and has my sympathy with regards the conditions he has to work in with no access to the Club, lack of staffing (I remember the CT sports desk having five full-time members, not it seems to be just Andy plus whoever from the web team chips in now and then with galleries and click bait).
The whole click bait thing is a much wider issue. That is journalism in 2017, unfortunately. Local newspapers hijack nationwide stories (there was a recent one where a whole bunch of local papers ran the same story about a Drive Through Greggs opening in Manchester) and rinse them for every click that they can. And then there's the ads. I tried to read something on the Leicester Mercury's site yesterday. I had to click off two ads, one video which automatically started playing with sound and answer a survey just so I could get past the first paragraph!
Unfortunately, we are entering a realm where journalism is that kind of bullshit that we see on Twitter where a website makes an entire news story out of a single Tweet. There was one I saw yesterday where one of those sites 'reported' that a fan had tweeted a Bayern player about leaving them. The player tweeted back saying 'hahaha.' They made an entire story out of this with a headline something along the lines of 'A fan tweeted a Bayern player, you'll never guess his response.' I'm just about to leave the journalism profession because of shit like this. I hate it. Rant over.
Perfect example is the one today about the new striker tweeting this:
And a whole article about it trying to draw conclusions from just that, then there will be a "reaction" to him saying that.
Journalists are just being replaced with content writers who copy and paste stuff and change a couple of words just basically making crap up without giving a shit about the quality or no pride in it.
Another example is the "Could Ed Sheeran be coming to Coventry?" type stuff when there is nothing to indicate he actually was. So much of it is so misleading and not just CCFC stuff.