walker smith
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I was listening to the Big Sports Breakfast this morning and Josh Massoud appeared in his regular Friday slot.
TK repeated the headline from a Massoud story in todays paper which was "The Day 20 Years of Friendship Froze over" and TK said "Is this a beat-up or is it Fair Dinkum, are they no longer mates?"
Massoud responded with nervous laughter and said "thats a difficult question to answer..."
NO ITS NOT.
Either the story is true and they are having their friendship tested or it is a beat-up. As usual. I just can't believe he effectively admitted this on the air.
He then said that if "Ricky Stuart denied their friendship was tested he would be lying."
Really? This means the process of checking the story goes as follows:
A) Massoud has a theory
B) Massoud prints his theory which is based on his own assumptions/speculation and prints it as fact
C) Massoud says that if the subject denies the story that the denial is a lie...and that is his justification for a feature story.
If he is going to express "facts", learn to verify.
If its his opinion that their relationship is strained, identify it as opinion or conjecture.
Even though its a non-story, it is an illustration of the lack of credibility of the Tele... shame that it has the most league coverage of the major papers.
TK repeated the headline from a Massoud story in todays paper which was "The Day 20 Years of Friendship Froze over" and TK said "Is this a beat-up or is it Fair Dinkum, are they no longer mates?"
Massoud responded with nervous laughter and said "thats a difficult question to answer..."
NO ITS NOT.
Either the story is true and they are having their friendship tested or it is a beat-up. As usual. I just can't believe he effectively admitted this on the air.
He then said that if "Ricky Stuart denied their friendship was tested he would be lying."
Really? This means the process of checking the story goes as follows:
A) Massoud has a theory
B) Massoud prints his theory which is based on his own assumptions/speculation and prints it as fact
C) Massoud says that if the subject denies the story that the denial is a lie...and that is his justification for a feature story.
If he is going to express "facts", learn to verify.
If its his opinion that their relationship is strained, identify it as opinion or conjecture.
Even though its a non-story, it is an illustration of the lack of credibility of the Tele... shame that it has the most league coverage of the major papers.
