Waco paper calls out other papers in Baylor blog

That's all true. But how does it pertain to this specific incidence? It appears to me the chronicle went with an anonymous source that probably will turn out to be correct, when the smoke clears.

Then Mr. Waco Tribune is going to look like a dumbass.

 

I don't undersatnd the concept of calling out the competition for what they wrote. What they did stands on its own to enhance or destroy their credibility.

Consider:
During the Yankees/Torre fiasco, a Metro NY paper had as its "exclusive" lead story one day that a "friend" of Don Mattingly's said Mattingly had told the Yankees he was not prepared to follow Torre as Yankees manager. The morning it hit the streets, Mattingly's agent was on the phone to every NY baseball writer he could reach calling it "a complete fabrication" Nobody called out the writer. Most people just wrote that the agent was referring to "a published report."

A few days later, the same paper and same writer posted on its Web site at 3:40 p.m. that Torre had accepted a one-year plus option deal to return as Yankees manager. WFAN and ESPN.com both picked up that this newspaper was reporting this.
A 4 p.m., the Yankees announced Torre had rejected the offer and was out as Yankees manager. Again, by the next day's papers there was no mention of the original erroneous report nor of the writer.

Chances are, however, that writer will not be on the Yankees beat next season.