Comments on: The Big Lead, and credibility http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:04:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jack Sikma http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-77449 Jack Sikma Thu, 08 May 2008 17:49:06 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-77449 Uh...you weren't right. He was fired and it was just the beginning of a known process. I went after you for not being original. Do you want to be a common blog or something better? I guess you answered that question for me already. Thanks to TBL for linking to this again today so I could respond. Keep working that IU beat, you are only a few hours behind others. Uh…you weren’t right. He was fired and it was just the beginning of a known process.

I went after you for not being original. Do you want to be a common blog or something better? I guess you answered that question for me already.

Thanks to TBL for linking to this again today so I could respond. Keep working that IU beat, you are only a few hours behind others.

]]> By: PostmanE http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61707 PostmanE Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:46:19 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61707 Dude, you've now officially lost me. <i>Ah…but you may have just been lucky. How easily it all could have shifted.</i> Huh? You don't anything about our reporting process, or how we gathered our information. The point is that we were correct, and others weren't. There's merit in that. <i>Then again, you are just reporting on someone else’s reporting and thats pretty pointless. Copy/Paste someone else’s work and then drop in a paragraph of your thoughts on it…..Not too shabby if you can get that work.</i> Now you're going after us for being ... a blog? Because that is kind of what a blog is in its most common form. You're a confusing man, Jack Sikma. Dude, you’ve now officially lost me.

Ah…but you may have just been lucky. How easily it all could have shifted.

Huh? You don’t anything about our reporting process, or how we gathered our information. The point is that we were correct, and others weren’t. There’s merit in that.

Then again, you are just reporting on someone else’s reporting and thats pretty pointless. Copy/Paste someone else’s work and then drop in a paragraph of your thoughts on it…..Not too shabby if you can get that work.

Now you’re going after us for being … a blog? Because that is kind of what a blog is in its most common form.

You’re a confusing man, Jack Sikma.

]]> By: Jack Sikma http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61696 Jack Sikma Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:55:24 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61696 Ah...but you may have just been lucky. How easily it all could have shifted. Should probably double check the locks on your house just in case before knocking on someone else's door. Then again, you are just reporting on someone else's reporting and thats pretty pointless. Copy/Paste someone else's work and then drop in a paragraph of your thoughts on it.....Not too shabby if you can get that work. Ah…but you may have just been lucky. How easily it all could have shifted. Should probably double check the locks on your house just in case before knocking on someone else’s door.

Then again, you are just reporting on someone else’s reporting and thats pretty pointless. Copy/Paste someone else’s work and then drop in a paragraph of your thoughts on it…..Not too shabby if you can get that work.

]]> By: PostmanE http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61678 PostmanE Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:15:29 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61678 See, but we did get it right. If we would have gotten it wrong, this would be pot-and-kettle stuff, but we didn't, so it's not. There is merit in getting the story straight, and in realizing that you can't criticize others without locking down your house first. That's all. See, but we did get it right. If we would have gotten it wrong, this would be pot-and-kettle stuff, but we didn’t, so it’s not.

There is merit in getting the story straight, and in realizing that you can’t criticize others without locking down your house first. That’s all.

]]> By: Jack Sikma http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61676 Jack Sikma Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:10:29 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61676 But...you could have just as easily been wrong. Especially with all the rumors running around the situation. Just because you got this one right doesn't really give you the right to rail on TBL. Why didn't you name your "source" at the time? Just sayin' That's the 'pot calling the kettle black' thing I'm talking about. Then again, you and Sprow are pretty chummy so you were probably just sending hits his way or something. I mean you guys have ads here so I'm sure you have some semblence of an audience that you can push/pull as you want. But…you could have just as easily been wrong. Especially with all the rumors running around the situation. Just because you got this one right doesn’t really give you the right to rail on TBL. Why didn’t you name your “source” at the time? Just sayin’ That’s the ‘pot calling the kettle black’ thing I’m talking about.

Then again, you and Sprow are pretty chummy so you were probably just sending hits his way or something. I mean you guys have ads here so I’m sure you have some semblence of an audience that you can push/pull as you want.

]]> By: PostmanE http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61662 PostmanE Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:58:07 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61662 Jack, I think you're missing the point. I wasn't saying that TBL should never print rumors -- I'm saying that you can't print an incorrect rumor under the guise of breaking news, get it wrong, and then criticize the mainstream media for doing the exact same thing. That goes for us, too, but we've long since abandoned the idea that we're in a place to criticize breaking news operations. And, yeah, we got it right, so I'm not sure that's calling the kettle black at all. One was right and one was wrong. Still, that's not the point. It's the hypocrisy involved, hypocrisy that's heightened when you closely guard your anonymity and hold yourself up as a media critic. Jack, I think you’re missing the point. I wasn’t saying that TBL should never print rumors — I’m saying that you can’t print an incorrect rumor under the guise of breaking news, get it wrong, and then criticize the mainstream media for doing the exact same thing. That goes for us, too, but we’ve long since abandoned the idea that we’re in a place to criticize breaking news operations.

And, yeah, we got it right, so I’m not sure that’s calling the kettle black at all. One was right and one was wrong. Still, that’s not the point. It’s the hypocrisy involved, hypocrisy that’s heightened when you closely guard your anonymity and hold yourself up as a media critic.

]]> By: Jack Sikma http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61661 Jack Sikma Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:52:48 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2008/02/15/the-big-lead-and-credibility/#comment-61661 So...didn't you do the same thing as TBL in your post except your source ended up being correct? Kind of a 'pot calling the kettle black' situation going on? So…didn’t you do the same thing as TBL in your post except your source ended up being correct? Kind of a ‘pot calling the kettle black’ situation going on?

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