WE REGRET THE MISTAKE. THE BIG HONKING MISTAKE
by Orson on Jan 28, 2008 9:43 AM EST
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Gainesville Sun, you are error.Bloggers are irresponsible. Factless. Rife with innuendo and bleeding half-truths. Unbound by any ethic or rule, those rapscallions! Why, if I had half a mind I'd....
In a Thursday recruiting story, The Sun inaccurately reported that All-America wide receiver Julio Jones was sent home early from his University of Florida visit by the coaches and that Jones, who is from Foley, Ala., was recruiting for Oklahoma while he was in Gainesville.
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Sources confirmed Thursday that Jones, in fact, stayed for his entire visit and had not done any recruiting for another school. The Sun regrets the errors.
Good fucking night--error doesn't cover what a story accusing a player of recruiting for a rival school during the heated peak of handshake season is. Just trying to put together a comparable headline boggles the imagination:
On Wednesday, the Sun reported that Julio Jones stabbed Florida defensive coordinator Greg Mattison with a car key for misusing the "who/whom" combination in a sentence. Jones also did not kidnap four recruits and force them to sign letters of commitment to "The University of Satan" while threatening them with a grub hoe, nor did he commit unnatural acts of non-coercive simulated sodomy with a mailbox on 13th Street early Saturday morning. We regret the error."
Thanks for coming Juilo. The Gainesville Sun hopes you enjoy your time in Tuscaloosa or Norman.
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oops…. with friends like the G-ville Sun, who needs enemies?
by ramblin' on Jan 28, 2008 9:47 AM EST reply actions
And to add to #1…is the G-ville Sun friend or enema?
by sb on Jan 28, 2008 9:56 AM EST reply actions
Journalists: Breaking news that is 100% accurate 53% of the time.
You bloggers with your non-credentialed reporting could only hope for such a percentage.
by Biggus Rickus on Jan 28, 2008 10:02 AM EST reply actions
Jesus Christ, and now even you are getting into the act, misspelling his name in the last paragraph. How much more of this bullshit does he have to take before he says, “fuck it”, and actually does sign with the University of Satan?
by fresh on Jan 28, 2008 10:33 AM EST reply actions
Now bloggers, not unlike K-Fed look responsible.
by Stockman on Jan 28, 2008 10:41 AM EST reply actions
#5, please clarify…which University of Satan campus would he transfer to? Los Angeles? Atlanta? Or would he keep it real at the local Foley campus?
by Aerobab on Jan 28, 2008 10:48 AM EST reply actions
Just another tactic by Urban Meyer. Who else would have spoon fed this story to this idiot reporter? The reporter stated that it was from a source that was there during the recruiting. That only could have been a coach. It was also obvious that the reporter did not have to much faith in the validity, as he made sure to put it as a footnote in the story, yet he still took his marching orders and ran the story anyways. As soon as the story was proven false, by actual reporting he used the excuse that it was only a footnote. Urban knows that he is not going to go to UF, so he sends out someone to assasinate Julio’s character. It makes Julio look bad and makes Oklahoma look bad.
by Kenny on Jan 28, 2008 10:56 AM EST reply actions
having lived through the hell of writing a correction or two in my time as a newspaper journalist i’m unable to feel any degree of schaedenfreud in regards to this incident.
by kleph on Jan 28, 2008 11:05 AM EST reply actions
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf landed in Gainesville shortly after losing his post as Iraqi Information minister. The Sun should have known better.
by Chips O'Toole on Jan 28, 2008 11:15 AM EST reply actions
Mike Gundy is loading up the SUV and heading towards Gainesvillle. I hear he has a bone to pick…
by Rival on Jan 28, 2008 11:17 AM EST reply actions
10, 13: You said he was downgradin’ the Gators. THAT AIN’T TRUE!
by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 28, 2008 11:26 AM EST reply actions
If we’re dabbling into the child slave trade (recruiting), could you at least do a pictorial on Russian car-washing coeds?
by Out of Conference on Jan 28, 2008 12:21 PM EST reply actions
@9
I would think your comment was a spot-on ironic look at how Urban, who is the Evil Recruiter Incarnate, just HAS to be involved.
However, I bet you believe your every word.
by Irwin Fletcher on Jan 28, 2008 1:18 PM EST reply actions
“Thanks for coming Juilo. The Gainesville Sun hopes you enjoy your time in Tuscaloosa or Norman.”
Is that “Juilo” intentional mistake related irony?
Is there any way the Athens Clarke County Police Department and the Gainesville Sun could combine into a super being aimed at fucking their respective hometown team?
by Raleigh Urbain on Jan 28, 2008 3:26 PM EST reply actions
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