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[QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 1172704, member: 1023"]
It seems you're suggesting that ESPN paid McCants.
What leads you to believe that?

ABC News has explicitly banned paying interviewees.
[url]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/25/abc-news-after-casey-anthony-debacle-bans-paying-news-subjects-for-photos.html[/url]

Given that the guy behind the ban, Ben Sherwood, is now the # 2 guy at parent Disney, it's hard to believe that ESPN paying for an interview would be anything but a career-ending move.

In the interests of full disclosure, I worked for Ben Sherwood. In all the time I was at ABC doing investigative work, there's only one practice I ever engaged in that could even remotely be considered paying for an interview.  On perhaps two or three occasions I flew key people to New York for interviews.

That was done as a matter of self-interest...holding down costs.  It was simply cheaper to fly someone in and put him/her up at a hotel for a night or two than it was to fly a producer & correspondent to remote places, put them up for a night or two, pay for car rental and per diems AND hire a local freelance camera person.  (The morning talk shows often fly in guests for live interviews.).

I suspect this may be one reason McCants chose to speak to ESPN:

"In the 90-minute "Outside the Lines" interview last month, McCants said he is planning to write a book about his basketball and collegiate experience."

[url]http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/11036924/former-north-carolina-basketball-star-rashad-mccants-says-took-sham-classes[/url]

I will politely refrain from wondering out loud who will write the book for McCants?
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