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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5287680, member: 722"]
To be fair, it sure sounds like Brent Axe failed to get multiple sources before going with the "scoop."

On the other hand, it also sounds like his source was the kid himself, which I used to think would have made the single source a viable option.

Axe didn't ask everybody else around the kid where they thought he was going, and then run a story because his crazy uncle said "Syracuse."

If I was a reporter and a kid who had just been on a visit to the school I cover told me he was committing, I am not sure if I call the coaching staff to confirm before going public...  It isn't like Brooklyn Vick committing to Syracuse basketball and the coaching staff was all saying "Who?"

The coaches at Syracuse had wined and dined him days earlier, it sounds like the kid himself didn't know he didn't have a committable offer.

On the scale of journalist screw ups, this one seems vanishingly small.

Unfortunately, Axe can't come out and say "Collins told me himself" even if that was his source. That would make everything worse.
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