Comments on Re: Sonics Stay. Slog Gets it Wrong ...

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

C'mon yall! Laugh at Charles!!!

Slog gets story wrong,again.

But it doesn't count cause it's the Slog - or does it?

Do you think the Times will cover the Slog's error?

@2,

I don't know if it "counts."

But the Slog post published last night got it wrong.
And a Slog post published this morning corrects it.

As for the Seattle Times
They published two stories about the guns that were wrong. I corrected them on Slog. And then in our paper before they got around to correcting it a week later.

Nice try, but wev Whatever.

You could report that the Sonics are moving to the moon and I wouldn't care as long as we aren't paying for it.

Josh, there is no law to tell you what to do with your blog. If you want to say one day that the Slog is just for funzies, like when you publish quotes you probably shouldn't have, and other times it matters, like when you scold the Times, that's fine.

It's your own credibility that you are playing games with, that's all. You have one standard to the things you want claim credit for, and a different standard for things you wish to avoid blame for, and you are perfectly within your rights.

Just don't act surprised when you find yourself taken even less seriously.

I seriously do not understand why some people think that blogs are textbook.

I have said it before and it is worth repeating: The only people who take Slog seriously are people on the payroll of the Stranger. Hell, Slog is not even an enemy of Bill O'Reily!!

please people, i was sharing a rumor. i even said as much: "the word on the [web] street."

@5 - I disagree that the Slog standard is different. Josh published a quote that wasn't in the printed version, but it was an actual quote by an actual person associated with the actual story.

It's like when you buy a DVD of a movie that has all of the deleted scenes accessible. The director might not think a certain scene moved the story along, so it is cut from the finished product, but there it is on the DVD. Does viewing that scene at your leisure detract from the movie? If anything, it gives interested parties more information or another perspective. It's for the fans, not for the masses.

I think Slog is like that. No limitations on number of words or page size. More informal, yet still accurate. And, as Josh pointed out in @3, it's corrected quickly when necessary.

Now the Slog comments ... that's where journalistic integrity flies out the window (as it should).

"...i was sharing a rumor."

Sure, unless it turned out to be true. Then you'd be claiming how the Stranger "broke the story" on Slog.

You guys are full of crap.

Too, too keen on the scoop.

Good thing it is something so trivial as the biggest Sonics story in 50 years ... other wise folks might josh you a bit about your propensity to make mistakes.

Fire the non news staffer that didn't confirm the facts. Or, give him back the conjecture beat.

The Muckleshoots and Sonics were talking....in Spring/early summer. talk about trickledown gossip, it was confirmed nonstarter awhile ago.

Slog was wrong, Kucinich was right.

I'm so stimulated I could take a nap.

I want the Sonics to stay, and I want "monkey" to pay for it.

But Auburn is a ridiculous location.

Can't we send the Sonics away, and keep the Storm instead?

Can we keep the Sonics and have the Storm play their games?

gone daddy gone.

there ain't no need for a new arena. we've got the best one in the NBA.

sit tight & wait for the Hornets to come to us.

@17 - why, are they an NHL expansion team?

Curling! We need CURLING!

You want the Hornets, when the Sonics just got Kevin Durant? You're high.

The Hornets would come with their own awesome venue though. It's called Key Arena.