F****** blogs

[Jake_Taylor]

But how do you know he didn't have the kind of confirmation that would have made you, or at least most newspaper people, comfortable going with it?

 

[Gator]

But how do you know he didn't have the kind of confirmation that would have made you, or at least most newspaper people, comfortable going with it?

I don't.

 

[CD Boogie]

I don't.

So this blogger might have been right all along and the club president was perhaps lying to you in saying the blog report was erroneous?

 

[Gator]

Possible, but not really. Extremely doubtful. If the club president clued him in, don't you think he would have been front and center at the official announcement?

 

[LongTimeListener]

Possible, but not really. Extremely doubtful. If the club president clued him in, don't you think he would have been front and center at the official announcement?

Who said the club president clued him in?

I'm going to jump out of this, because I don't understand the issue. The guy had a well-sourced and clearly accurate story. You got beat.

 

[Gator]

You'll be thoroughly missed.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

You'll be thoroughly missed.

You may want to step back, dial back the snark, and realize LTL is dead right on this.

You got beat. It may be because the blogger took a risk and got lucky. It happens.

It may also be that his sources were solid and he knew it.

Either way, not really the time for the celebratory dance.

 

[Gator]

You may want to step back, dial back the snark, and realize LTL is dead right on this.

You got beat. It may be because the blogger took a risk and got lucky. It happens.

It may also be that his sources were solid and he knew it.

Either way, not really the time for the celebratory dance.

The day it becomes OK to "take a chance and get lucky" with news is the same day I'll be looking for a new job.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

The day it becomes OK to "take a chance and get lucky" with news is the same day I'll be looking for a new job.

Way to miss the point.

YOU GOT BEAT. And you don't know why.

If he took a chance, hold your head up high and take the "L." No shame in getting beat because someone else played fast and loose.

If he had the sources and you didn't? Not really time for celebration. And not for nothing, he was right, so his sources would seem to be pretty good.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

I wrote something for a website recently. A player took a redshirt season and the school said nothing except that he was redshirting. The truth was he redshirted, but at least partly because they were trying to sort out an NCAA issue before the start of the next season.

None of the local beat guys were writing about it. The coach and administrators "respectfully declined" interview requests. But I had multiple sources. They were good sources who knew, even if they weren't official. Several athletic department employees confirmed it for me without realizing because I just had conversations where I acted like it wasn't supposed to be a secret.

 

[Gator]

1. I don't remember taking a lap with arms raised. This was merely an update.

2. You and LTL are certainly welcome to your opinions.

3. Given how things played out, I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[JC]

The day it becomes OK to "take a chance and get lucky" with news is the same day I'll be looking for a new job.

You have no idea if he did this. You are simply a mouthpiece they can use now.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I wrote something for a website recently. A player took a redshirt season and the school said nothing except that he was redshirting. The truth was he redshirted, but at least partly because they were trying to sort out an NCAA issue before the start of the next season.

None of the local beat guys were writing about it. The coach and administrators "respectfully declined" interview requests. But I had multiple sources. They were good sources who knew, even if they weren't official. Several athletic department employees confirmed it for me without realizing because I just had conversations where I acted like it wasn't supposed to be a secret.

Several years ago my TV station reported that Marlon Brando was dead about 48 hours before anyone else in the world had it. At first we were hammered by other media demanding to know our sources. Then, for the better part of the 48 hours we were a national punchline. There was a thread here about it, I believe.

Once everyone else confirmed it, our report was written off as "lucky" and irresponsible and clearly premature.

In reality we had two sources. They were both inside the hospital room when he died. At least one, possibly both, were named Brando.

If you've got the story, you've got it.

 

[expendable]

Reading the thread title, I thought this was a link to an online Penthouse Forum.


Damn.

 

[YankeeFan]

Does the blogger in question throw a lot of **** against the wall, getting much of it wrong, on a regular basis.

If so, then maybe he got lucky going with an iffy source.

If not, why the assumption that he took some big chance and got lucky?

 

[Doc Holliday]

Small update here: Turns out, waiting was the best thing I could have done. The official announcement was made on Tuesday, and Club President and Guy From Governing Body gave me the inside track to put a story in the paper the day before. And during the official announcement, there was a lightly veiled shot at the blogger to went with unnamed "multiple sources." Blogger, as expected, touted his report from "six months ago," though Club President said nothing had been decided at that point during the press conference. Also, blogger was not invited.

Maybe patience, and doing things the right way, can be a virtue.

I'm with Yankee here. The blogger was right. Second place is first-place loser.

 

[Doc Holliday]

The day it becomes OK to "take a chance and get lucky" with news is the same day I'll be looking for a new job.

I've been doing this 25 years, and son, sometimes you gotta take a chance. No person ever worth a **** in this business sat on the sideline their whole damn career waiting for the coach to put them in. You can either be a mouthpiece, or you can be a reporter.

 

[SnarkShark]

If not, why the assumption that he took some big chance and got lucky?

You know the answer to this, I suspect, but I'll say it anyway. Many in old media still look down on new media and assume those in new media are ****ty at what they do.

In my small corner of the sports world, an old media guy will always ask me if "the blogger is coming today" like the pretentious asshole he is. He has no clue that "the blogger" has 100 times more reach and influence than him in our sport, but because he's old media, he just goes off his assumptions.