BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | Welsh | Wales confident of Jones fitness
Hmm... This post could have gone onto any of the three 'blogs I currently write! But it's best here, I think.
It highlights recent problem with journalism, not exclusive to the BBC. What is happening is that certain sources get quoted without the most basic editing - to, you know, remove hesitation and, like, repetition and 'verbal punctuation' and, you know, stuff.
Wales rugby team manager Alan Phillips is quoted thus:
"Niggles you know, nothing that worries us you know because we've got the two-week window now before the first game," Phillips added.
"So we've got plenty of time to rest one or two of them, to you know repair them."
I'm worried because it appears, to this reader, as if journos can and do deploy this tactic selectively, where an agenda exists to portray the subject poorly. I specifically remember Glenn Hoddle - then the under-pressure coach of the England soccer team - being quoted "At the end of the day, I never said them things..."
Of course, hacks can always fall back on the defence of verbatim - it's the whole truth, so what's the problem? Well that's fine, so long as they be shown to treat authority, royalty, and current or potential patrons with the same candour...
1 comment:
Any interview I've seen, you know, with, like, a sportsperson, has had so many of these, like, phrases sprinkled throughout them that, at the end of the day, they don't say very much at all, you know?
That said, they're far from the worst offenders. Just listen to the average church prayer to hear more "justs" and "fathers" than one sentence should ever have ;)
Forgive me for my rather negative comment, all I really wanted to say was hello! and then I got all carried away... well. Pet peeves, and all that.
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