"…You already know this, but if Judith Miller had relied on unscrupulous unnamed sources in epically incorrect reporting about the Yanks trying to sign C.C. Sabathia, no one would’ve given a shit (and she’d not be a stand-in for the idea of journalistic mega-failure) (and she’d probably still have her job). Still, that’s a difference of degree, not of kind: the editorial and journalistic failures that lead to faux-scoopy demi-garbage getting run in well-respected newspapers are the same failures that lead to the same stuff running in generally respectable sports venues. It’s tough to remember sometimes, but with the exception of Stephen A. Smith sports-radio pronouncements and Jared Dudley’s Twitter-feed world exclusives, all of this anonymous-sources-say shit passes through several levels of editorial scrutiny."
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