donny
Grenville Morris
As we found out with the guy from "The 72", as soon as someone who actually knows stuff calls you out on it, the dolly goes out of the pram. Nixon has blocked the foremost football finance expert in the UK for calling him out on his BS, as you say, lots gets posted without thought, whereas, proper journalism used to involve chasing leads and other things before actually getting editorial approval to run the story.Blame social media - in the good ol' days we had a deadline of the evening edition or the next issue or the next bulletin which could be hours away but now with all the platforms and the ability to type a tweet as you talk to a "source" it means that stuff that we would never have written or put out in the past without corroboration or confirmation is now just thrown into the ether of the internet with barely a thought.