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Frei Is Right
by Paul on 02/22/09 at 08:45 AM ET
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from Terry Frei of the Denver Post,
Among the things I don’t like about covering the NHL are the minimal standards for vetting trade rumors before they’re tossed out into print, on the air or into cyberspace.
It has been like that since I can remember, and relatively speaking seems worse compared to other sports, even in reputable journalism circles.
For some reason, “sources” in hockey newspaper coverage range from agents, general managers and other team officials (even if they had axes to grind) to the assistant trainer, a player’s wife’s hairdresser, a Ouija board or a dartboard.
And in this age, thanks to the Internet and, in some cases, to reputable print and broadcast journalism’s unfortunate willingness to abdicate its position of higher-standard authority, the standards have gotten even lower.
Hey, toss anything out and see what sticks!
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