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  • #31
    Originally posted by Beninator View Post
    But Scouter, T is right in at least one respect. Why did the PJS feel there was a need for a correction? And...Once there was a correction article written, why did the PJS have to continue to frame the article with a flip headline and why did the PJS writer feel there was a need to frame the last part of the article with; "Consider this a candidate for Sports Illustrated’s “This week’s sign of the apocalypse.”

    I'll tell you one reason why... BAD JOURNALISM
    Beni, it wasn't written as a correction. It's a follow-up on what was printed. The last part of the note probably is insinuating that it's against the norm to bring a kid over here for one month to play AAU ball instead of bringing him over to live and play high school basketball as well.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Scouter View Post
      Beni, it wasn't written as a correction. It's a follow-up on what was printed. The last part of the note probably is insinuating that it's against the norm to bring a kid over here for one month to play AAU ball instead of bringing him over to live and play high school basketball as well.
      Scouter, even if you follow your path here that this was printed as a follow up to the previous article, it is still a correction as they are basically admitting with the first sentence that the first report contained errors.

      "According to one local talent evaluator, an item in Wednesday??™s Journal Star reporting that Metamora could get a 7-foot freshman next season is erroneous."

      We can split hairs on this all day but I am very fired up about this as I am friends with one of the people mentioned and my friend had to deny a lot of questions thrown to him by people who read the first article.
      Bradley 72 - Illini 68 Final

      ???It??™s awful hard,??™??™ said Illini freshman guard D.J. Richardson, the former Central High School guard who played prep school ball a few miles from here and fought back tears outside the locker room. ???It??™s a hometown thing. It??™s bragging rights.??™

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Beninator View Post
        Scouter, even if you follow your path here that this was printed as a follow up to the previous article, it is still a correction as they are basically admitting with the first sentence that the first report contained errors.

        "According to one local talent evaluator, an item in Wednesday??™s Journal Star reporting that Metamora could get a 7-foot freshman next season is erroneous."

        We can split hairs on this all day but I am very fired up about this as I am friends with one of the people mentioned and my friend had to deny a lot of questions thrown to him by people who read the first article.
        Beni, I understand your point but I see it as a follow-up and not a correction because the original report was a rumor in the first place (although some seem to disagree). Had it been reported as fact, then I'd call it a correction also.

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        • #34
          Originally posted by tornado

          Experience has proven with most info it is best to take a cautious approach and believe only when one's reasonable mind says so.
          That's a good way to look at it.

          A problem arises though, when some people have a much more reasonable mind than others.

          This thread is a great example of that.

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          • #35
            If there is one thing we should have learned the last few years is that rumors or anything portraying the likelihood of not the whole truth is probably not the truth. Example are the WMD that were rumored to be in Iraq! Boy did the press eat that one hook, line and sinker and not once did a major paper for that fact apologize for their error in judgment.

            This Wilkens piece is small frys compared to much larger issues so I'm over it.
            "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
            ??” Thomas Jefferson
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            • #36
              Hmmm....I thought this thread was closed?!?
              Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by bigdaddystuck View Post
                Hmmm....I thought this thread was closed?!?
                I wish it would have stayed that way.

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                • #38
                  Did anyone else notice these two BROTHERS are both named John?

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by oilerpimp View Post
                    Did anyone else notice these two BROTHERS are both named John?

                    Originally posted by tornado
                    no, not exactly- one is Jonathan, the other John.
                    Not much different than brothers Marcus & Markieff Morris on Kansas.
                    Well they are a little different than the George Foreman family.
                    Bradley 72 - Illini 68 Final

                    ???It??™s awful hard,??™??™ said Illini freshman guard D.J. Richardson, the former Central High School guard who played prep school ball a few miles from here and fought back tears outside the locker room. ???It??™s a hometown thing. It??™s bragging rights.??™

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Beninator View Post
                      Well they are a little different than the George Foreman family.

                      B.......you mean like, George I-George II, George III........

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Big Mike View Post
                        B.......you mean like, George I-George II, George III........
                        Yep.... All the way up to George VI.


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                        Bradley 72 - Illini 68 Final

                        ???It??™s awful hard,??™??™ said Illini freshman guard D.J. Richardson, the former Central High School guard who played prep school ball a few miles from here and fought back tears outside the locker room. ???It??™s a hometown thing. It??™s bragging rights.??™

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by tornado
                          no, not exactly- one is Jonathan, the other John.
                          Not much different than brothers Marcus & Markieff Morris on Kansas.
                          uhh...what? Marcus and Markieff is the same as Jonathan, John, and Jonny? I guess I've had three separate identities throughout my life.

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                          • #43
                            Where did Jonathan Wilkins end up going to HS?

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                            • #44
                              As far as I have heard, he is still going to school in Belgium. If he had transferred to the US to attend school, I would think we could find some news about it.

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                              • #45
                                Hello everybody. I'm new here.
                                I live in Belgium. Today I saw Jonathan Wilkins playing Basket ball. He was great. He 's 16 years old. He probably not go to USA before 18.
                                He play's in BC Cointe.

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