Donovan Going Back to Florida?

Mystery Meat - I appreciate the effort. How about a decoder for the rest of us...

 

If I may: Read the lyrics to "Atlantis" by Donovan ... or better yet, find the song and listen to it.

That's quality work by Mystery Meat.

 

Twoback, I hope you are better with facts when you publish a story. You went 0-for-3 here.

The accurate version is Katz is half the journalist and paid four times as much. I also was sleeping at 3 a.m.

I think you just whiffed.

 

Nice job of summing up his tactics Moland Spring.

 

Larry Brown is a professional basketball coach who diddled around in college a couple of times. Larry Brown is not, and never was, a college basketball coach.

 

Is that the only point on the list you're debating?

 

As mentioned before, Katz made no such claims.
The way his company presents his reports is not his domain.
Does he use one source at times? Perhaps. I know I do. If I know the source is right, I'm fine with that. I don't care whether Moland likes it or not. My job is to be right and, if possible, to be first. It's not to satisify some J-school standard.
I have no knowledge of claim No. 4. As for claim No. 5. that's just ridiculous. The guy gets maybe 75 percent of coaching searches -- guys like Goodman start doing touchdown dances when they get one away from him.

 

This is a stupid argument (that I helped create, I know). No way to prove anything. I'll just say this: When I see Katz "breaks" a story, the first thing I do is click on the local major paper to see where the original story came from. That's sad. And I'd say 99 times out of 100, there lies the real breaking news.
Listen, I know Katz/Twoback has a hard job. Keeping tabs on 250 schools is difficult. But that doesn't give him a right to be in the land of make believe.
That said, he did break the news that the Magic was trying to ban Donovan from the NBA. So kudos for that. Unfortunately, it gets lost in a bunch of false claims of breaking news.

 

So you're crapping on him because his network self-promotes.
Oh, yeah, that seems fair.

 

You could ask the network not to do it when you haven't actually broken the news. If they continue to do it, there's an ombudsman and there are other places to work.

Edit: I have no first-hand knowledge of how Andy Katz works, but *if* the things that Moland Spring is listing are accurate, it's an unflattering portion of his character.

 

99 times out of 100?
Where do they grow what you smoke?
Did it ever occur to you that by the time you're clicking, they've played catch-up with him?
Doh!

 

I'm one of them. Mystery Meat also copped my favorite Futurama episode for that Donovan send-up voiced by Donovan himself.