Murray Chass and "sources"

then we were thinking of different people

 

Murray's story is an embarrassment to the industry, and I don't care if he was around to cover Abner Doubleday's first presser. He is making some serious accusations and using vague sourcing to back it up. It's crap like this that is giving newspapers a bad name.

 

It's not "sources." It's "GMs around the league" and "league executives have said."

 

The one I like is "a source familiar with the (insert your team here)'s thinking."
Like
a) an inanimate object such as a "team" can actually think, and
b) someone can "hear" it "thinking".

 

No way I'm siding with Mnookin, here . . .

He wrote some of the most irritating, hand-wringing-liberal crap extant when with Newsweek . . .
and people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones . . .