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Re: Gary Myers NY Daily News- Brady had a advantage against the Pathers
Yeah, that was Bob Halloran. And it pleasantly surprised me because mediots/journalists/writers (whatever multi-function hat they wear at any given time) tend to circle the waggons. Halloran looked genuinely (ethically) aghast because Tomase is supposed to be a beat reporter and Halloran unlike some of his on air peers cut his teeth as a newspaper reporter so he knows the level to which the sourcing/confirmation is supposed to rise above. Trouble is locally in Boston these days we have far too many multi-sport "columnists" and tabloid reporters with no football background and talk show mediots whose lives revolve around ratings points, and no nuts and bolts football beat reporter save Reiss and absolutely no sports journalists. Reiss doesn't have the necessary stature to turn the tables and stand up and tell his in and out of town peers to STFU and start acting responsibly. Not that he'd have done it if he didn't like BB... but Will had that kind of stature, and Borgie and Mannix could have developed it if they weren't a couple of bitter pricks.
I have to give Mike Dowling and Bob Hohler (?) credit when they were interviewed about the Thomase story. Neither disguised his disgust that Thomase had used an unconfirmed "source inside the Patriots organization" and both said it is something that should never be done.
Yeah, that was Bob Halloran. And it pleasantly surprised me because mediots/journalists/writers (whatever multi-function hat they wear at any given time) tend to circle the waggons. Halloran looked genuinely (ethically) aghast because Tomase is supposed to be a beat reporter and Halloran unlike some of his on air peers cut his teeth as a newspaper reporter so he knows the level to which the sourcing/confirmation is supposed to rise above. Trouble is locally in Boston these days we have far too many multi-sport "columnists" and tabloid reporters with no football background and talk show mediots whose lives revolve around ratings points, and no nuts and bolts football beat reporter save Reiss and absolutely no sports journalists. Reiss doesn't have the necessary stature to turn the tables and stand up and tell his in and out of town peers to STFU and start acting responsibly. Not that he'd have done it if he didn't like BB... but Will had that kind of stature, and Borgie and Mannix could have developed it if they weren't a couple of bitter pricks.