http://www.brendanloy.com/lrt/2010/07/twitter-rt-fivethirtyeight-bet/ All the Nose that's fit to blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:45:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.brendanloy.com/lrt/2010/07/twitter-rt-fivethirtyeight-bet/comment-page-1/#comment-8474 AMLTrojan Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:16:39 +0000 http://friendfeed.com/e/d17f4cbc-3bbf-5846-7bcc-0fd3abb8ae95#comment-8474 Eerie parallels with Arash Markazi's story quoting Mike Williams <a href="http://sportsbybrooks.com/arash-markazi-of-uscs-daily-trojan-took-some-3833" rel="nofollow">saying some unpleasant things</a> about his teammates and USC. I remember the message boards were in furor with Arash, and I remember being slammed for defending him for pointing out the inconvenient truth that, after all, he was simply quoting Williams; he certainly wasn't making stuff up. ESPN's response here seem even more dubious. They have about as much journalistic credibility as the members of <a href="http://dailycaller.com/buzz/journolist/" rel="nofollow">JournoList</a> these days. Eerie parallels with Arash Markazi’s story quoting Mike Williams saying some unpleasant things about his teammates and USC. I remember the message boards were in furor with Arash, and I remember being slammed for defending him for pointing out the inconvenient truth that, after all, he was simply quoting Williams; he certainly wasn’t making stuff up. ESPN’s response here seem even more dubious. They have about as much journalistic credibility as the members of JournoList these days.

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