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Found on Reddit that John Clayton published an article a few days ago where he wrote:
I guess technically it’s true BB wasn’t suspended for spying on practices. He also wasn’t suspended for assassinating Kennedy. Obviously as a national reporter he can’t fact check, but I suppose mistakes happen. Except he had already written two articles previously acknowledging that taping practices was a myth, even reporting the Herald's role.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080512...lumns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=3386833
Weird, you would think an NFL reporter who wrote several articles about spygate, and two reporting that the taping rumor was “Under heavy scrutiny” would have remembered this was false. So after people complained he issue a correction that said:
He’s pretending he issued a correction for the punishment (500k, 250k) but in fact he never even originally stated the punishment. He is trying to weasel out of admitting his mistake by claiming to fix something else. Maybe that first claim was a mistake, but now it’s looking like his integrity has some real problems. I’m having trouble believing any of it was a mistake.
FYI- His Wikipedia page was changed:
If anyone would like to tell ESPN that you think Clayton needs to go to a journalistic ethics class here's the contacts link. Let's put him next to Jerry Rice in the used to be respected bin.
https://r.espn.go.com/members/contact/tvindex
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...eady-rocky-start-field-issues-clayton-mailbagFor example, Sean Payton received a one-year suspension for the Saints' bounty scandals while Bill Belichick wasn't suspended for spying on practices.
I guess technically it’s true BB wasn’t suspended for spying on practices. He also wasn’t suspended for assassinating Kennedy. Obviously as a national reporter he can’t fact check, but I suppose mistakes happen. Except he had already written two articles previously acknowledging that taping practices was a myth, even reporting the Herald's role.
http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=3394586&src=desktop&wjbThe Boston Herald is under scrutiny for using a source that accused the Patriots of having an unnamed employee tape a St. Louis Rams walk-through just before the 2002 Super Bowl. Walsh told Goodell he had no knowledge of any taping of a Rams walk-through or any other taping of an opposing team's practice.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080512...lumns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=3386833
Weird, you would think an NFL reporter who wrote several articles about spygate, and two reporting that the taping rumor was “Under heavy scrutiny” would have remembered this was false. So after people complained he issue a correction that said:
Yeah, that’s not really what happened though, he didn’t incorrectly report the details of the punishment, he incorrectly reported the crime. He did actually fix the claim about taping practices, but this “correction” just replaced one lie for another.A Feb 8 story on ESPN.com incorrectly reported details around New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick's NFL punishment in 2007. Belichick was fined $500,000 and the team was fined $250,000 for spying on an opponent's signals.
He’s pretending he issued a correction for the punishment (500k, 250k) but in fact he never even originally stated the punishment. He is trying to weasel out of admitting his mistake by claiming to fix something else. Maybe that first claim was a mistake, but now it’s looking like his integrity has some real problems. I’m having trouble believing any of it was a mistake.
FYI- His Wikipedia page was changed:
If anyone would like to tell ESPN that you think Clayton needs to go to a journalistic ethics class here's the contacts link. Let's put him next to Jerry Rice in the used to be respected bin.
https://r.espn.go.com/members/contact/tvindex
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