bresna

Check out his comments in the WROR Podcast from Feb 5th:

http://wror.everyzing.com/viewMedia....=none&filter=0

go to the 12:20 mark.

While I'm still PO'ed at Tomase, he sounds genuinely bummed out that he had to run with the story. You have to wonder if he is just the fall-guy for the Herald editors.

"It's not my job to keep stuff out of the paper"

"My job's not a popularity contest - I have to write what the news is"

"New York Times and ESPN seem like they're close to something that we had heard - so we have to start digging and when you find something, it has to go in the paper"

BelichickFan

He may not be the only culpable party but his name is on it and rumor/innuendo is not news. Sorry Johnny. You may have to write what the news is but you can't just print any old rumor you hear.

Fixit

Translation: "We didn't care if we were wrong; we just didn't want to be scooped."

PonyExpress

Cry me a f'n river. Classic: "I have to write what the news is". Sickening.

What is "the news"? A lie you make up to sell papers?

Pujo

If the stuff's not true it is.

BradyManny

He has a responsibility to come out and name who fed him the BS. His source was wrong, but he needs to reveal his source.

bakes781

If he was gonna trust a source enough to go unnamed he should've demanded evidence to confirm it.

patchick

There's a simple name for his (and his paper's) failing here: greed. It was plain old journalistic greed, wanting that scoop. And like so many people blinded by greed, they put aside their principles to go after the object of their desire.

Tomase's "excuse" is actually quite damning, because it makes it clear that he didn't think he had enough to go on to run the story.

naclone

yeah, the reality is, print media has been marginalized in some part because on the radio, online and even on TV now, it's totally fair game to discuss things that are not sourced and are not hard news.

in order to stay relevant, print media feels it needs talk about the things that are being talked about in other media. sooner or later, i suppose, we'll need to just get over the fact that print media no longer lives by the standards and ethics of journalism and instead is just another vehicle for infotainment.

now, more than ever, you just can't believe everything you read in the newspaper.

patchick

It's an interesting twist on a journalist's responsibility toward his confidential sources. Do you have an obligation to shield the identity of a source who lied to you?