Reporter thrown under the proverbial bus?

I'll stick up for the SE here... A) hindsight is nice, but why would he think the player DIDN'T say it; B) in a two-person shop, how do you know the SE got to look at it with days off or his own vacation?

 

I'd like to say that the Arkansas football program seems to be a complete nuthouse that ruins anyone who gets near it.
Who in the hell is in charge at that place anyway?

 

But what I don't get is the second story. If you run that story, you're essentially admitting the original story was incorrect ... even if you slap that disclaimer on the end. If you really stand by the story, you don't run the follow, right?

 

I would think that his denying the quotes is worth a story -- especially in a small town like Cullman. Having no tape to prove either side correct, it gives both sides the out. Does kinda screw the reporter tho.

 

Others don't understand that this is an industry in which writers' and editors' growing pains are often revealed in public.

 

I don't trust a paper that allows "myriad of" in its copy.

 

Well said Editude.
People all across the world f'up. Whether this reporter f'd up by not taping, or f'd up by "massaging" the kid's quotes a bit too much (if that's true, then he deserves to be thrown under the bus/train/semi-trailer), who knows. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt, since most likely its a matter of this kid realizing he bitched and moaned to the wrong person, one who could put it all in public...
hopefully, the reporter learns to be more careful by taping everything as often as possible.

 

I have a real question about this. Can you have a 'proverbial bus'? There's nothing about a bus in the proverbs, right? Doesn't 'proverbial' have to refer to something referenced in a proverb?

Not making trouble, but I wonder about this every time someone says 'proverbial' in relation to something that can't be.

 

There, there, dools. It's okay.

 

Methinks you're making something out of nothing...

 

I'm with you on this, 21.

From George Carlin's Braindroppings:

Proverbial is now being used to describe things that don’t appear in proverbs. For instance, "the proverbial drop in the bucket" is incorrect because "a drop in the bucket" is not a proverb, it’s a metaphor. You wouldn’t say, "as welcome as a turd in the proverbial punchbowl," or "as cold as the proverbial nun’s box," because neither refers to a proverb. The former is a metaphor, the latter is a simile.

 

Joni Mitchell sang about a big yellow taxi. Does that count?