Tomase’s explanation

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Herald reporter posts explanation
Published 5/16/2008 at ESPN.com - NFL Nation - Blog
Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando John Tomase, the Boston Herald reporter whose erroneous story about Spygate prompted an apology this week, has explained his position. 

John Tomase's explanation
Published 5/16/2008 at Reiss' Pieces
... Boston Herald reporter John Tomase pens a piece for Friday's editions explaining where the Feb. 2 story -- claiming that a member of the Patriots' video department taped the Rams' walkthrough prior to Super Bowl XXXVI -- went wrong. ...

TOMASE EXPLAINS HIS ERROR
Published 5/16/2008 by Mike Florio at ProFootballTalk.com
Reporter John Tomase of the Boston Herald has posted a lengthy, detailed explanation of the events leading to that fateful February 2 story claiming that the Patriots had taped the Rams’ walk-through practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI. The entire article is right here ...

Boston Herald's John Tomase Offers an Explanation That Doesn't Explain Much
Published 5/16/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: Patriots, NFL Media Watch, BostonBoston Herald reporter John Tomase, who wrote the explosive and since-retracted report that the Patriots taped the Rams' final walk-through practice before the 2002 Super Bowl, has written an explanation of how he got the story wrong. Unfortunately, the explanation doesn't really explain much of anything. It's really more a timeline of his work on the story, and there are still key details that he doesn't make clear, like exactly how many sources he had and who they were. So how did he get the story wrong? Basically, it comes down to this: "on the final, crucial point of whether the ...

Tomase Fesses Up, Massarotti Covers Up
Published 5/16/2008 by Bassett at thejetsblog.com
John Tomase gives his mea culpa today on how everything went wrong for him on his story right before the SuperBowl about the Patriots taping the Rams’ walkthrough.  For the past few days, Tomase has been facing a lot of heat in New England, and a columnist for his paper the Herald, Tony Massarotti took some of the pressure off by writing a column blasting Patriots fans.  Now I find his column more amusing than anything and knowing my fair share of Patriots’ fans, they don’t all fit this description, just as all Jets fans aren’t all Class B sexual predators trolling Gate D. … general thoughts on Patriots ...

Herald Writer Explains Damaging Walkthrough Story
Published 5/16/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
The Boston Herald writer who broke the (false) news that the Patriots taped a Rams walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI has issued an apology. John Tomase basically claims that he published a rumor because he heard it from "various" people and solidified it when he heard that Walsh's assertion of skeletons in the Pats' closet. Here's a snippet.... Late in the 2006 season, I was having a casual conversation about the Patriots [team stats] when someone I trust threw out the following tidbit. “I heard the Patriots filmed the Rams’ final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI,” he said. It was just a rumor, and certainly not actionable intelligence, ...

Pats' Beat Writer Attempts To Keep Fans From Yelling At Him For The Rest Of His Life [Media]
Published 5/16/2008 by DAULERIO at Deadspin
Boston Herald Patriots beat writer John Tomase promised an apology — and an explanation — after it was revealed that his February 2 story about the Pats taping the Rams' walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI wasn't true. (The tape failed to materialize and never existed.) Boy, did he ever come through. In what has to be one of the lengthiest mea culpas in journalism history, Tomase painstakingly revisits his process in putting the story together and then comes to the forgone conclusion that his main source had essentially pulled the story from deep inside their smoking rectum and handed it over to him. What can you say to all of ...

And finally, the long-awaited John Tomase apology
Published 5/16/2008 at Shutdown Corner
If you aren't familiar with the name John Tomase, I sort of envy you. That would mean that you aren't terribly caught up in all this Spygate business, at least not caught up enough to know the name of the unfortunate soul at the Boston Herald who first "broke" the story of the Rams walkthrough tape, which, of course, we now know never existed. His official apology is here, but here's the Reader's Digest version: he screwed up. He had sources that weren't concrete and he really wanted to break the story first, so he made some poor assumptions. He ended up printed something about the Patriots that wasn't true. And in a special treat for Herald ...

The Mea Culpa March Continues
Published 5/16/2008 by Steve at SOX & Dawgs
We at Sox & Dawgs have been on Camera-gate since the very beginning and you can see everything we’ve written on it. While in the beginning I thought the magnitude would in no way be what it became, we were there and we will continue to be because as we all know this may fade but it will not go away for quite a while. One of the reasons is because of Senator Arlen Specter. He continues to try to make it an issue, even though other members of his committee, granted it’s Ted Kennedy, say there are bigger fish to fry. Another reason is that fans of other teams will not let it go. You can tell by some of the comments from postings within our very ...

Can we please stop giving a crap what Bob Kraft and his sniveling son thinks
Published 5/16/2008 by BigBlueShoe at Stampede Blue: Front Page Posts
AOL Fanhouse posted something on a WEEI Radio interview with Patriots President Jonathan Kraft, the son of Patriots owner Bob Kraft. In the interview, Johnny Kraft decided to take some shots at ESPN for their coverage of "Spygate," stating their "journalistic standards that really are not up to snuff." While I agree with Kraft that ESPN is total garbage, on this particular ...

Tomase Offers Explanation; Satisfied?
Published 5/16/2008 by Jeff at Sports of Boston
Boston Herald Patriots beat writer John Tomase published an account of what led to his writing of The Story in which he reported that the Patriots taped the St. Louis Rams’ walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI. The story was published the day before the Super Bowl and has been proven false when Matt Walsh divulged that he nor anyone else in the Patriots video staff had done so. Tomase basically says that he messed up by relying a source (or a ‘few’ sources he says) but never could back any of it up with hard evidence. He heard from a source ‘he trusted’ that the Patriots had filmed the walk-through but Tomase never saw a tape or talked ...

This Week in Bloggernets: Now appearing on The Big Lead
Published 5/17/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
Editor's note: UGH. What a game last night . I think I pretty much had an aneurysm in the last few minutes after watching Lebron James take a "charge" against Paul Pierce , Ray Allen lose a hoop on an an uncalled goaltend and Wally freakin' Szerbiak drop a 28-foot 3-pointer on Boston's head. But enough about the game. This is, of course, This Week in Bloggernets, Red Sox Monster's weekly at all that is good and righteous on the Internet. And by "righteous," I mean pee-your-pants funny. ----------------------------------- -- Don't usually start by pointing out my own work, but some of you might find this of interest: I'll be doing occasional posts for the foreseeable future ...