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<blockquote data-quote="TechPhi97" data-source="post: 23790" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>Good gracious, you have to make 3 leaps of faith to get to your theory. Starting with the first - what would motivate a "credible sports journalist" to post a "completely bogus rumor". My understanding is that when you're doing any kind of actual journalism you get information about something and then you try to make contact with other people to verify your information. So, Feldman could have contacted coach Johnson, or the AA, for comment before tweeting what he heard. I have no doubt that someone sent rumor to him, but it could've been the janitor at the AA that thought he overheard something. Or someone with an axe to grind that is changing jobs. Or a player that heard a rumor in the locker room (because when something like Vad transferring happens it kicks up a bunch of other rumors). At issue is how he handled it, which was to "report" it using Twitter rather than actually do some real reporting work and try and track it down.</p><p></p><p>There are many documented examples of reporters taking short cuts to get the scoop. How is it so hard to believe that Feldman took one unverified rumor and published it without checking its validity?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechPhi97, post: 23790, member: 158"] Good gracious, you have to make 3 leaps of faith to get to your theory. Starting with the first - what would motivate a "credible sports journalist" to post a "completely bogus rumor". My understanding is that when you're doing any kind of actual journalism you get information about something and then you try to make contact with other people to verify your information. So, Feldman could have contacted coach Johnson, or the AA, for comment before tweeting what he heard. I have no doubt that someone sent rumor to him, but it could've been the janitor at the AA that thought he overheard something. Or someone with an axe to grind that is changing jobs. Or a player that heard a rumor in the locker room (because when something like Vad transferring happens it kicks up a bunch of other rumors). At issue is how he handled it, which was to "report" it using Twitter rather than actually do some real reporting work and try and track it down. There are many documented examples of reporters taking short cuts to get the scoop. How is it so hard to believe that Feldman took one unverified rumor and published it without checking its validity? [/QUOTE]
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