Enough to call off the Patriots fans with pitchforks?
By adamg - Fri, 05/16/2008 - 8:47am.
You certainly can't accuse the Herald of hiding Tomase's Tapegate mea culpa. In case you're busy, the basic idea is:
Nobody lied to me, I just jumped to conclusions, I feel terrible, will carry this with me for the rest of my life, but I'm a better person for it and, yes, I'm still covering the Patriots and no, I'm not telling you my sources.
Bruce Allen: Um….so that's it?
Dan Kennedy deconstructs Tomase's deconstruction and wonders: Where were the editors?
David Scott conducts what is probably the first liveblogging of a newspaper column.
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Editors?
I'm not familiar at all with how newspapers work, but this story certainly had to go thru a few editors, right? No mention of them at all.
Newspaper ad rates
Don't newspapers set higher prices for ads on Fridays (due to all the sales at car dealers/department stores which happen on weekends)? I'm wondering how much money the Herald is making off this issue.
Well ...
The Herald certainly teased this whole thing, and I bet they do sell more papers today.
However, I really doubt the paper could have convinced anybody to pay more for an ad based on this one story/apology. Although ad rates are tied to circulation, they're tied to "audited" circulation, which isn't done on a daily basis.
So where are the editors during all this?
Adam Reilly talks to one, concludes it's smart legally (do you really want editors admitting they let a reporter run with a story like this?) and in terms of morale: