Oh, you picky, picky bitches at the public editor’s desk. You first take away our beloved Jayson Blair; then you tell us tales of “girls romancing each other” may just be the unverified, undocumented, and possibly fictitious ramblings of an over-recruited college athlete.
Orangebloods already had a fine rebuttal to the New York Times’ article by Thayer Evans on the recruitment of Jamarkus McFarland whichm while not exactly clinical in its approach, was certainly enough to poke a few holes in the story.
We at Pajamas Media think you have unfairly cast Mack Brown as a Satanist with this photo!
Now the NYT public editor decides to just pee all over the best passage of the story by confirming the lack of confirmation on the story. BOO REPORTERY THINGS:
Evans did alert the university just before his article was published on the newspaper’s Web site. Why didn’t he seek reaction beforehand? He said that if anyone at Texas had spoken to him, it would have violated N.C.A.A. recruiting rules. And, he said, he did not want to give either Texas or Oklahoma information they could use to try to influence McFarland’s decision.
“I felt like we made the best efforts we could under the circumstances,” Evans said.
Regardless of whether Texas officials would have commented, Evans should have given them the chance. As in each of the other cases, a phone call could have headed off much embarrassment.
Hrmgnnmppmhhh…you could say that a reporter has to bend over into pretzeloid shapes to present both sides of the story, yes; or you could say that Evans depicted this kid’s recruitment from his perspective, put it on paper, and then let the reader make up their mind. (more…)
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