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Originally Posted by Longtimefan
In today's rat race of sports reporting, Wise undoubtedly got caught up in that never ending anxiety to be a first and it cost him dearly. No excuses, lesson learned.
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He wasn't trying to be first though. He was just trying to prove a point. A point which he, as an official member of the sports media representing himself as such is simply unqualified to make.
I mean I get the point he was trying to make, we saw it to some extent when some Saints fan updated Andre Carter's wikipedia page to say he had been traded to New Orleans for a 3rd rounder. Or, perhaps more close to home, I once posted here that I had heard but not could not confirm that Trent Williams had agreed to a contract and it was just undergoing customary league approval. Someone here tweeted that news and it spread across message boards like wildfire. Turns out my info was wrong (premature). Official media, however, took both the Carter report and the TW report and said basically "looking into it, nothing confirmed, have not heard anything" or "we have not heard this"
But there's a greater expectation, or at least should be, when someone like Mike Wise shares information than when say GoSkinsSBXXII does. If Mike Wise was wrong about something, that's one thing. When he deliberately tries to mislead, that's completely another.