Judy Battista spreads the NFL's lies, then lies some more to try to cover it up

As the appeal hearing transcript showed, Kessler asked for the transcript to be released to the public and the NFL denied his request: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/05/kessler-asked-for-transcript-release-during-hearing/

Yet back on July 28th, Judy Battista reported this:

There were settlement talks that might have saved both sides from an ugly battle, but among the sticking points, according to a person familiar with the conversations, was that the NFL Players Association and Brady's representatives wanted the record of the appeal sealed. That request was interpreted by those on the league side as an attempt to keep the destruction of the cellphone from ever becoming public, because Brady's representatives surely knew how dubious that decision would look.

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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ruling-casts-shadow-on-tom-bradys-credibility

Pretty bad, but even worse than getting used by the league to spread more false information to make Brady and the Patriots look bad is that she is now on twitter lying about it and trying to cover up her shoddy reporting.

When someone on twitter called her out for it, she replied with this: https://twitter.com/judybattista/status/628732070077050881
("Did not report anything tonight on any topic. And what I reported was not about the appeal hearing.")

No retraction or apology to Brady, just more lies and an attempt to cover up her report. Bad enough she got the report wrong to begin with but the total lack of integrity to keep lying and try and cover her ass is what's more disgusting. Feel free to stay on her on twitter until she sets the record straight instead of trying to bury this.

Another NFL employee lying about the case... shocking.

Unfortunately, the original tweet accusing her wrongly said "tonight" about a story from last week or something. That gave her a pretext to duck the whole thing.

Truth was the first casualty.

Mack Herron said:

Truth was the first casualty.

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Well said my friend. Well said.

The word truth isn't even in the dictionary according to the NFL* offices. The owners better start making some changes at the Aug 11th owners meeting or the NFL* will slowly turn into the WWE.

Do I see the house of cards fluttering?

grux said:

The word truth isn't even in the dictionary according to the NFL* offices. The owners better start making some changes at the Aug 11th owners meeting or the NFL* will slowly turn into the WWE.

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Slowly? Looks like we are already there.

Nitro said:

Slowly? Looks like we are already there.

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Vince Mcmahon is jealous.

"She didn't have to lie today. Today was a good day."

My comment on her post;

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who heard Brady tell someone he didn't want the transcript released. Brady didn't deny it, so that proves he is guilty.

Battista? Bueller? Anyone?

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nfl network reporters are embarrassing. battista's bad, but nobody's worse then mike silver.
he kept comparing brady to hernandez.

......and Mark Cuban sits on the sidelines chuckling to himself and waiting......

FlyboyPatsFan said:

My comment on her post;

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That was WAY too creative and interesting Flyboy. What she needs to see one Twitter would be something like this.

LIAR - you said Brady wanted the transcripts sealed, and you were dead wrong.....and you never owned up to it. Tell us Judy, who told you print that flat out lie. Was it Roger?, Pash? Kensil? Giardi?

If you want to twitter bomb someone, you need to be as direct and crass as they are.

Patfanken, my first reply was a little more factual and a lot less creative. I didn't hear back from her (surprise!!), so I poked her with the riff on dialog from Ferris Bueller's day off

Judy Battista said: "There were settlement talks that might have saved both sides from an ugly battle, but among the sticking points, according to a person familiar with the conversations, was that the NFL Players Association and Brady's representatives wanted the record of the appeal sealed."

Would that be the same source as "11 of the 12 balls were 2 lbs under inflated"?

From the appeal transcript;

"I would like the NFL to think about this,” NFLPA attorney Jeffrey Kessler said during the hearing. “We have had this issue back and forth and we propose that there not be confidentiality in this matter and the NFL said they wanted confidentiality and we agreed to something and it was there. I would like to propose on behalf of the Union that we can release this transcript of this [hearing] today. I would like the NFL to think about that. That’s our proposal. . .

http://www.csnne.com/.../nflpa-wanted-transcript-released...

So much disinformation, so little time.

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Sportswriters have impunity for not writing the truth and then ignoring calls for correcting their falsehoods.

Same thing for Mortensen regarding the measurements or Jackie MacMullan regarding Asante Samuel's tatoo (I had an email exchange with her about it at the time and she said she knew susbsequently that it was wrong but felt no need to issue a retraction. It was unbelievable. Until that time I thought she was a good journalist.).

Let's face it. In today's world there is literally nothing that holds a sportswriter to the truth.

The worst kept secret truly is that, in 2015, a "professional sportswriter" is no more credible than any of us on this forum.

I used to think differently, but time and circumstances have proved me wrong.

patfanken said:

......and Mark Cuban sits on the sidelines chuckling to himself and waiting......

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fu.ck Mark Cuban, just last week he come out bashing Brady and saying that his punishment should have been increased.

She's just an NFL reporter who lacks ethics. I stopped reading any of her articles after she tried to manipulate stats to support her argument.

In 2013 or 2014 she took the Chiefs last few games and compared it with the other 31 teams points scored over the whole season. If you calculated points scored by a few teams over that same stretch like she calculated for the Chiefs you'd see a few teams actually scored more points during that same stretch she claimed the Chiefs were the highest scoring team. It was so pathetic. I stopped reading her articles after that. She's pathetic.

If an NFL employee is publicly lying about the details of an ongoing case, any chance the judge looks not too kindly at that? Especially after telling everyone to tone down the rhetoric?