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Draft TY Hilton’s son so he can carry his father legacy of owning the Texans. 😂 -
Sports journalism has been crap for a long time. It's more important to be first than accurate. I've seen articles using Twitter accounts as sources. What happened to the old days. Source the intel, interview those involved . Vet the Intel, write the story. With the internet, anyone with a website is a "journalist" it's nonsense. Joseph Pulitzer is rolling in his grave -
I'm not a journalist either. I agree that it's best practice to offer the subject a chance to respond. My real point is that I don't think a lack of response from the subject automatically invalidates the information. In this specific situation, I think the information was sensationalized. The initial report shared some nuanced opinions from unnamed sources, which I think is pretty common. The way the story took off from there is probably due to aggregation, for which I don't hold the initial reporter responsible. And what it seems like here is we're pushing back against a "negative" report regarding a player the Colts drafted, rather than taking the information on its merits. -
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There was nothing stopping Mitchell (or his agent) from contacting McGinn to say can I give you an interview so you can put out my side of the story. Look…. Sports stories move quickly, if you had to get a response from every source in every story, stories would never get done. Especially in a world where so much info is now getting tweeted out. And if Mitchell or his agent didn’t trust McGinn, odds are it wouldn’t be hard to find a reporter who would be happy to interview Mitchell. The kid has a compelling story. So in many cases if a reporter can’t get to a player after a game, or needs more info, you can grab him before the next game and do a follow up where the player is now the full story. I’m talking here about baseball, basketball and hockey where there are multiple games in a week. A little different in football, but you’d go to the team facility and get a follow up 1-on-1 for a good next day story. Once the McGinn story was out there was time for Mitchell to do as much damage control as he thought necessary. I don’t want to go on and on. Hope I came close to answering. If not, or you have more questions, hit me up, because I’m always here. -
I don't necessarily agree that if teams chose other WRs it means they didn't view him as a first round player. It just means they liked a different player more. As for the rest, I think it's obvious that teams had concerns about AD Mitchell. I also think it's obvious the Colts weren't dying to draft him, otherwise they wouldn't have traded back. So the whole 'he was a surefire first rounder until unnamed sources went after him' thing doesn't quite connect for me.
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