Boston Herald apologizes for Patriots videotaping coverage
Image via WikipediaThe Boston Herald reported in early February that a member of the Patriots staff taped the Rams’ walkthrough the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. In the interest of full disclosure, I was part of the Herald organization at the time.
As of today, they have owned up to the error in reporting in an honest and earnest fashion with an A1 mea culpa and having the apology lead their web site.
“We now know that this report was false, and that no tape of the walkthrough ever existed… The Boston Herald regrets the damage done to the team by publication of the allegation.”
I have tremendous respect for their sports editors and the entire organization. My hope is that they allow their readers the opportunity to vent their anger and frustration by leveraging the web site as a vehicle for communication through their commenting function, and that the readers abstain from personal attacks on John Tomase.
Links for 2008-04-18
- Industry News
- VentureBeat: Social network platform Ning pre-money valued at over $500 million, This comes on the heels of FastCompany’s unabashedly smitten coverage
- Torstar cutting 160 positions including the entire internet production staff at Canada’s largest daily newspaper, The Toronto Star
- Wahington Post’s memo on its migration from newspaper and new media companies to a true media organization [Poynter]
- RSS 101
- How to use RSS to make life easier [Edublogger]
- How to stoke your creativity and keep abreast of your passions [Creative Liberty]
- RSS Aggregator service Readburner goes mobile [ReadWriteWeb]. More from Mashable.
- Preview service here [Readburner mobile]
- iPhone preview here [Readburner iPhone]
- How to use RSS and Social Media for news gathering [Journalism.co.uk]
- General
- Avoid ten common typos [Receding Hairline]. Found on Lifehacker.
- Hackontest - Google backed 24 hour open source coding marathon [Slashdot]
