I've noticed you backing the good ones Jill and I took your point on board about Rob drapers good work re Paris.
I don't really do twitter apart from certain political and economic commentary, but what type of stuff happens to the decent journo's on Twitter? Is it orchestrated stuff by serious people or high volume abuse from the type of dickheads we see occasionally on here?
What sort of back up would you suggest and who are the gooduns needing support.
A lot of it can be orchestrated. It's a well-known tactic that the sport washers use professional people sitting in offices answering anyone who criticises Abu Dhabi, Qatar or whoever. It can get quite personal on occasion. Delaney had his twitter invaded by all sorts of arse holes on one occasion, so I stayed there and put in a few bullets in there myself on some of the idiots. A number of journalists are getting more proactive now the World Cup is coming and writing articles on the poor workers over there, and also on the LGBT stuff as well. I can understand people not wanting to go on twitter but sometimes you have to fight the battles, otherwise the decent get drowned out sadly. Yes, Draper did some really good work in Paris, I am glad they are going to send that report into the enquiry.
I would suggest Miguel Delaney, Rob Harris, David Conn, Adam Crafton. These have all done some great work. Also, Philippe Auclair is a real critic of them. You don't have to get personally involved just retweet their messages when they are attacking Abu Dhabi and Qatar.