Blogging's impact on media credibility

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Take THAT, Sports Reporting! Says Mark Cuban
Published 7/5/2007 by TheHype at NBA Basketball and Other Unrelatedness
Dude, Mark, first: yay! for a post on your spot finally talking about the NBA. I love the tech/biz talk as much as any self-respecting geeksquad-blogger, but most of your jargon goes well over my tiny little head. Anyways, take this as a love letter for your newest entry man, just well said. From Blog Maverick: The past few weeks one of my former employees wanted to make a statement about our legal relationship and get his perspective covered in the media. No problem at all. The media people he spoke to asked me for a comment. I didnt give one. One media outlet wrote it as fact, then bloggers jumped in. The more bloggers jumped in covering what the other bloggers had to say about what the first bloggers said. When I asked a local reporter why he was covering this when he only had one side and he knew i wasnt going to give a response, he said it was because his editors thought it had become a nat ...

Signings and Scandals. Another day of the NBA summer break.
Published 7/5/2007 by Sam Rubenstein at SLAM Online
... Chauncey Billups may or may not be re-signing with the Pistons, and Mark Cuban has a lot to say about it. It’s always nice to get lessons on ethics from a guy that is suing an ex-employee because Cubes can’t handle losing with quiet class. ...

Mark Cuban: Billups rumor probably blogger misinformation
Published 7/5/2007 by Justin Rogers at Detroit Pistons Full-Court Press - MLive.com
By blogging about Mark Cuban's blog, we may be playing into his argument, but his opinion is worth noting on this situation. July 4, Blog Maverick: Today in the Transactions section of the sports page of the Dallas Morning News, I read that Chauncey Billups agreed to sign a deal with the Detroit Pistons. This is the simplest of questions. Its completely binary. Either he did or he didn't, Its in the most throwaway of all sections of the sports pages and the newspaper itself. There is no incremental value to readers or the paper to have this tidbit in the paper. Its not a scoop. Its not going to sell papers. Yet the Morning News proved it didn't care enough to get the answer to a Yes or No question correct. Wanna bet they just pulled this as fact from a sports blog ? Thats the simplest example I could find, but there are many. Today traditional media uses blog posts as authoritative. If its writt ...

A Few Links on a Slow Sports Day
Published 7/5/2007 by Pat at Doubt About It
... On a completely unrelated note, Pittsburgh's Favorite Potential Owner That Will Never Own a Pittsburgh Franchise has an interesting article up about blogging and its effect on mainstream media. Worth a read if you are bored and/or interested. Some of the better points are made in the comments section: blogging is, after all, probably alot more about opinion than it is about fact. Its an interesting debate that I won't elaborate further on, but feel free to strike up discussion in the comments section. ...

Thursday Bullets
Published 7/5/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Mark Cuban makes some rash generalizations (mostly, and this hurts me personally, accusing all of the media of having the same shoddy standards as the worst of media) in a longer blog post about how terrible rash generalizations are. The point he's missing: there are solid and shoddy people in every profession, including blogging and mainstream media. As much as he'd love to know that reporters or bloggers are good and bad, the truth is you simply have to take the time to figure out who's doing it the right way, and trust those people. ...

Mark Cuban reads this blog
Published 7/6/2007 by Justin Rogers at Detroit Pistons Full-Court Press - MLive.com
... . Well, my blog at least. Well, Mark Cuban read my response and graciously edited his own entry. July 4, Blog Maverick: ****UPDATE ** as of this morning i read on this Justin Rogers' blog just how the "signing" of Billups became fact, According this report it was a beat writer on talk radio that "reported the signing" after which it was reported through various outlets as fact. So if this blog is accurate, (I dont have the time or inclination to fact check for this element ) would have lost my bet that it came from a blog, but the fact that the Morning News reported this in their transactions section without taking the very simple step of calling the player's agent as Justin did, just further confirms my point that accuracy is no longer part of the program for many in media. Needless to say, I'm honored. Now I can turn my attention back to getting Mark to make an offer to the Fords.

Mark Cuban Would Tank Games in Certain Situations
Published 8/13/2007 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... I hope he’s not going to get mad at me for using that headline, but I’m trying to be fair given what he shared on the radio. If I were going for the entirely sensational headline, I would have just said “Mark Cuban would tank games.” Mind you however, that when Cuban joined Michael Irvin and Mike Fisher on FOX Sports Radio, he said he would tank games in certain circumstances: ...

Top 20 Sports Blog Stories of The Year
Published 11/10/2007 by airraid81 at Juiced Sports Blog*: Writing Enhanced by Flaxseed Oil
... The Big Lead interviewed Mottram about his depature. 7. Blog Maverick: Mark Cuban Attacks the Dallas Morning News for Reporting Errors DMN listed Chauncey Billups as resigning with the Pistons. At the time, he had not resigned. The free agent season hadn't even opened up for that matter. ...