UPDATE: ESPN has issued a correction. ESPN has an article running on its homepage right now about how Donovan McNabb is encouraged by the Eagles' picks and moves. The source for the story was McNabb's Yardbarker blog. You see how I hyperlinked that so you could go read the source yourself? Yeah, ESPN didn't do that. They mentioned that he said these things "on his blog" but did not link to it nor mention Yardbarker anywhere in the article.The article goes on to quote from McNabb's post at length -- 211 words in total, which is 45% of his entire 464-word entry. There is virtually no information in the article besides a listing of the Eagles' picks and moves and quotes from McNabb's Yardbarker post. The bottom of the article notes that "Information from ESPN reporter Michael Smith and The Associated Press was used in this report." Again, no mention of Yardbarker.On the bright side, it's good to see that Yardbarker is such a respected pla...
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if they aren't getting a piece of it, they aren't interested.
you can do that when you have lawyers that can crush anyone to itty bitty little bits.
if they aren't getting a piece of it, they aren't interested.
you can do that when you have lawyers that can crush anyone to itty bitty little bits.
Of course, I'm not surprised that ESPN doesn't offer the same courtesy. I guess they figure since yardbarker is just a medium for McNabb's words, they don't deserve recognition.
exhibit a: http://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articles/and_yet_another_espn_fail/571609
exhibit b: http://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/epic_EPIC_fail_by_ESPN/563586
http://www.alanag.com/2009/04/espn-issues-correction-about-yardbarker.html