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There's no surprise that people are trying to ask him about it, it should be fully expected. It's, wrongly or rightly, a big story at the moment that a huge amount of people have been talking about, and the media will be paying it attention. I know if I was there or working at the testimonial tonight my agency would be requesting a lot of pictures of Giggs. It's just how it is, demand for a story, so quotes and pictures are sought after.
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The point is that it's £#%&! all to do with United, £#%&! all to do with football, £#%&! all to do with the match on Saturday and £#%&! all to do with Fergie. Why in the name of Christ anyone thinks Fergie should have to field questions about it is baffling. His team's in the European Cup final and they want to talk about a player's sex life? £#%&! them all to Hades.
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My argument was about this 'specific' Journalist who has been banned by Fergie.
If he's a sports journalist shouldn't he be more interested in Fergies tactics than trying to get a quote for the front page? Of course the Press will be all over this Giggs story until it blows over & of course 'Celeb Gossip' is nothing new. It is however more intense than ever - it literally nourishes the soul of the brain dead @#%&!s that buy these magazines & watch programmes about Peter £#%&!ing Andre. The axis of evil - Piers Morgan/Simon Cowell/Max Clifford Giggsy should be £#%&!ing ashamed of himself tbh |
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Yes all good points really but he's still a fascist for not allowing a sport journalist, a profession firmly rooted as a corner stone of society, to do his duty to the public by stirring a reaction and generally making himself feel noticed. These people have a hard enough gig as it is making up stories as they go along.
Reading hunter s thompsons great shark hunt atm, gives a good insight into the mentality of sport journalists. Useless £#%&!ing pigs. |
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there is no public benefit to hacks being able to print details of individuals' private lives. unless there is an element of political hypocrisy (a politician who is elected on the basis of 'values' and so on, for example) then there is no justification for publishing crap like this - and the same was true of john terry. there is no free speech argument here, it's simply using other people's pain to draw readers and sell space to advertisers.
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It's a Heat magazine story and it should be left to the Heat magazine journos to chase it. No proper self-respecting sports journo should be bringing it up in the pre-match press conferences. |
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It was giggs that sought the super injunction against the press. he knew what he had done was newsworthy and tried to stop it getting out to protect his reputation and probably his sponsorship and earning power its backfired on him badly and has exacerbated the whole situation and it most definitely IS about united because one of our players is the number one news story in tabloid, broadsheet and legal publications in the week before the biigest game of the year. he was officially outed in a debate in the Commons ffs he is one of my all time favorite players but but trying to brush away culpability and use the 'journos are scum' line is naive and superficial if ryan had said to himself "if i £#%&! this big brother bint behind my wifes back will the press be interested in that as a story and will it affect my public profile?" what do you think the answer would have been? |
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However, with the media the way it is now and the fact that there is demand for stories like this (unfortunately) it has become part of sports media. Whenever I'm off to cover a game my agency won't only discuss with me the sporting stories, they will also talk about the stories around it, and if someone has the spotlight on them, I'll be asked to wire in shots of them. It's a shame that the stuff going on around football gets so much attention now. A good example is Peter Crouch, earlier this season I was covering a Spurs match, and at the final whistle I got a text saying he will be in the News of the world tomorrow with stories about an affair, so I had to get in some stock images of him. And they were used. It's a part of my job I don't like, but its a viscous circle. As long as there's demand (and there still is) it will go on. |
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there are countries with sensible privacy laws where a person's private life is out of bounds unless there is a genuine issue of the public good, like the example i gave earlier. you don't get people pining after knowledge of how many bastard children mitterand had because the demand is created, not organic. |
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