Yep, I agree with u. Where there's demand, there's supply. If these kind of stories are extremely popular among people then there is no need for media to make any effort to find reliable sources and write quality material. It's sad that this situation is even getting worse every single day. Maybe the victims of this 'journalism' (Cristiano, in particular) should more often sue newspapers in order the press starts to think before publishing lies or inventing things.
This is something we debated a lot about back in school, what was first people wanting to read trash or media wanting them to read trash. My teacher always said this is a question of what came first the hen or the egg. And because this is a really difficult and never ending argument, I won’t even get into it. I don’t want this to turn into a 100 pages essay :P
See, I just mentioned the other day that I get angry with Cristiano for not defending himself. Whilst I think Messi’s team is a little bit over excessive with their legal responses I see it mostly benefits for him. A couple of years ago he even sued a Hungarian sport magazine, if that’s not over the top, then nothing. I mean, no one but Hungarian people read it, doesn’t matter. He also sued one of the Catalan papers for claiming that he was going to be charged with tax fraud before the official accusation was out.Â
Like I said, a bit excessive but he has way better press than Cris. It works for him because media can see they can’t screw with him. Then there’s Cris on the other side who’s been everything from a rapist to a criminal who all but just didn’t push Spain into the dark middle ages with his tax fraud, like there’s free reign when it comes to him, everyone can come up with their worst, most disgusting ideas. I don’t know whether his team follows the whole “there’s no such a thing as bad publicity” but sometimes they really should think it over because there is bad publicity, very bad, and I hate to see they do nothing.
