Rumor: Jazz want to - and can - acquire Milsap. May trade Favors in draft day deal.

[Darkwing Duck]

You had an anonymous source give you a rumor that makes very little sense. And instead of trying to find evidence that it had any basis you just reported it? This is the biggest problem with journalism today. Instead of trying to find anything besides the word of a guy unwilling to put his name on it you just report it. It's lazy journalism, and begging for clicks instead of trying to come up with a real story.
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Not trying to offend you. And you are far from the only one who does it. But what happened to trying to find facts to back up a story instead of just having some guy make **** up and get it printed in the papers or tweeted by media members who have a following because of their connections to the sport and team. I for one will have a hard time putting an ounce of credence to anything you tweet or write now because you have shown to be the type of journalist that can't be trusted.
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I do respect you for showing up to defend yourself though. Not easy to do when you are a public figure.

Media has been using unnamed sources since the beginning of journalism, broken the biggest stories because of unnamed sources, and a beat reporter's relaying of information during a sport's offseason is what gets stuck in your craw?

 

[Getting Traded]

Media has been using unnamed sources since the beginning of journalism, broken the biggest stories because of unnamed sources, and a beat reporter's relaying of information during a sport's offseason is what gets stuck in your craw?

I tend to side with GB. If Jody was dubious to begin with, then he must not have thought the source was very reliable or one that he trusted. If that is the case, then why report it? I think this was poor judgment on Jody's part.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Media has been using unnamed sources since the beginning of journalism, broken the biggest stories because of unnamed sources, and a beat reporter's relaying of information during a sport's offseason is what gets stuck in your craw?

Stated much better than I did.

 

[DJJazzyJody]

You had an anonymous source give you a rumor that makes very little sense. And instead of trying to find evidence that it had any basis you just reported it? This is the biggest problem with journalism today. Instead of trying to find anything besides the word of a guy unwilling to put his name on it you just report it. It's lazy journalism, and begging for clicks instead of trying to come up with a real story.
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Not trying to offend you. And you are far from the only one who does it. But what happened to trying to find facts to back up a story instead of just having some guy make **** up and get it printed in the papers or tweeted by media members who have a following because of their connections to the sport and team. I for one will have a hard time putting an ounce of credence to anything you tweet or write now because you have shown to be the type of journalist that can't be trusted.
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I do respect you for showing up to defend yourself though. Not easy to do when you are a public figure.

I'd suggest you look at my track record of reporting. Or you can judge me by one misconstrued tweet, which was followed by multiple posts to give context about how trading Favors didn't make much sense.

It wasn't reported as fact that the Jazz WOULD trade Favors nor that they were shopping Favors. It merely stated that there are rumblings around the league that the Jazz are interested in re-acquiring Millsap and that IF that happened, the Jazz MIGHT look to trade Favors.

What makes more sense anyway — bringing Millsap in, as others have reported (and I know the Jazz still will inquire about), and have an overloaded frontcourt situation? Or bring Millsap in and see what they can get for Favors?

If you're so sensitive and narrow-minded that one tweet you didn't like discounts all of my other good work, so be it.

 

[DJJazzyJody]

Ahhhhh. Good times...


Remember when a handful of gullible tools thought this was an actual possibility and a good idea?

Thank god you clowns aren't running the show.

We got Trey Lyles bitches.

I think you mean: We got Trey Lyles, bitches.

 

[stitches]

I'd suggest you look at my track record of reporting. Or you can judge me by one misconstrued tweet, which was followed by multiple posts to give context about how trading Favors didn't make much sense.

It wasn't reported as fact that the Jazz WOULD trade Favors nor that they were shopping Favors. It merely stated that there are rumblings around the league that the Jazz are interested in re-acquiring Millsap and that IF that happened, the Jazz MIGHT look to trade Favors.

What makes more sense anyway — bringing Millsap in, as others have reported (and I know the Jazz still will inquire about), and have an overloaded frontcourt situation? Or bring Millsap in and see what they can get for Favors?

If you're so sensitive and narrow-minded that one tweet you didn't like discounts all of my other good work, so be it.

So is that a report on the Jazz or report on what other teams 'around the league' think the Jazz would do or not do if something else were to maybe happen?

 

[DJJazzyJody]

So is that a report on the Jazz or report on what other teams think the Jazz would do or not do if something were to maybe happen or not happen?

Simply one tweet about what a very reliable source said.

 

[DJJazzyJody]

I'd known enough before and heard enough since then to continue concluding that Derrick Favors will remain a Jazz player for a long time. I felt it my journalist duty to report that another possibility existed, though, according to a reliable source.

 

[stitches]

Simply one tweet about what a very reliable source said.

I know, but it matters if your report is on the attitude of the Jazz or on what the rest of the league thinks the attitude of the Jazz would be?

 

[Darkwing Duck]

I tend to side with GB. If Jody was dubious to begin with, then he must not have thought the source was very reliable or one that he trusted. If that is the case, then why report it? I think this was poor judgment on Jody's part.

So something as completely innocuous and inconsequential to the decision making as an individual on a sports team official sharing a thought with someone he/she KNOWS is a member of the media SPECIFICALLY charged with reporting information from and about that sports team requires the media member to make judgements on the quality of the information? Isn't journalism supposed to be the dissemination of information? Or is this an argument of only wanting dissemination of information you want to hear?

 

[DJJazzyJody]

I know, but it matters if your report is on the attitude of the Jazz or on what the rest of the league thinks the attitude of the Jazz would be?

My tweets and article reflect the Jazz's high opinion of Derrick Favors.

 

[DJJazzyJody]

So something as completely innocuous and inconsequential to the decision making as an individual on a sports team official sharing a thought with someone he/she KNOWS is a member of the media SPECIFICALLY charged with reporting information from and about that sports team requires the media member to make judgements on the quality of the information? Isn't journalism supposed to be the dissemination of information? Or is this an argument of only wanting dissemination of information you want to hear?

That was one heckuva long sentence, but well said!