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Re: Northeastern Recruits
There's definitely nothing wrong with CHN's work here. They're just reporting something that's already been reported, and they make it clear where they got the info. I'm sure they're doing their own reporting on it, but people don't always get back to you in a timely manner, especially when one of the people you're trying to get comment from (Cronin) is out of the country. Hell, it took Glass nearly two weeks to get back to me when I was working on that story. And people are always gonna be reluctant to go on the record, even anonymously, for a story like this.
As for Smith (the Fargo reporter), you never wanna run a story (or tweet about it) with only one source unless you're absolutely 100 percent sure that person knows what they're talking about. I don't really know how good or bad of a reporter Smith is -- I've read some of his stuff and he seems pretty good -- but I would like to think he wouldn't have run that if he wasn't confident in his info. There's also the possibility that he heard the same info from more than that one person, but no one else would even let him use them anonymously (aka they said it off the record). I've had that happen plenty. But if you get one person on the record as an anonymous source and four or five others telling you the same thing off it, then I think you can confidently run that story.
Obviously we have no idea just how credible Smith's source is, though, until something actually happens or until someone else confirms or refutes his report.
/Journalism lesson
There's definitely nothing wrong with CHN's work here. They're just reporting something that's already been reported, and they make it clear where they got the info. I'm sure they're doing their own reporting on it, but people don't always get back to you in a timely manner, especially when one of the people you're trying to get comment from (Cronin) is out of the country. Hell, it took Glass nearly two weeks to get back to me when I was working on that story. And people are always gonna be reluctant to go on the record, even anonymously, for a story like this.
As for Smith (the Fargo reporter), you never wanna run a story (or tweet about it) with only one source unless you're absolutely 100 percent sure that person knows what they're talking about. I don't really know how good or bad of a reporter Smith is -- I've read some of his stuff and he seems pretty good -- but I would like to think he wouldn't have run that if he wasn't confident in his info. There's also the possibility that he heard the same info from more than that one person, but no one else would even let him use them anonymously (aka they said it off the record). I've had that happen plenty. But if you get one person on the record as an anonymous source and four or five others telling you the same thing off it, then I think you can confidently run that story.
Obviously we have no idea just how credible Smith's source is, though, until something actually happens or until someone else confirms or refutes his report.
/Journalism lesson
