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(10-23-2014 03:37 AM)Fitz Wrote:  

(10-22-2014 11:39 PM)the ollie reed fan club Wrote:  Yes ultimately it is often one journalists word against another, just comes down to who you prefer to believe I guess.

Journalists never reveal their sources, that is common knowledge. Clearly he has a source, he didn't pick 772K buys through reading tea leaves. He was furnished with that number by someone on the inside. The fact that you can't work that out surprises me. Would you have preferred he said something along the lines of "I was given the figure by someone in the know whose name I can't reveal?" I personally don't need the meatball held up to my mouth in order to eat it. Maybe you do.

The 772K may be right, I'm just saying that it's basically the same thing that others have said.

Well duh, everyone has sources, and nobody picks numbers by reading tree leaves, even the guys that reported 900K plus had sources



All I was getting at that this is no different than what to other journos said about the 900K figure.
You're pretty cool though, you can eat the meatballs all by yourself, they just need to tell you that their 'source' is the best ground beef and you can just lap it up, because you can read between the lines

The 900 figure was in the mid 800s it was only boosted recently. If 925 was real why no official #? Kim wrote a while ago about floyds (maybe pacs also- dont remember) being inflated as no official #s come anymore. Just leaks and estimates.

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(10-22-2014 09:22 PM)Decagon Wrote:  Some of us know what good journalism means. That is not good journalism.

It was an interview not journalism