Niskanen May Be Traded... But Won't Be Traded

But this kind of “rumor reporting” needs to stop… It’s just making all of us in the hockey blogsphere look bad even though most of us know better.

Good job Art…. it’s an uphill battle a lot of bloggers have to deal with. The unfortunate part is that blogging is just like any other industry: there are good and bad. For some reason, the awful, irresponsible bloggers who crave the most attention USUALLY receive it…

Bravo.

…this stuff makes me sick. Blogs should be the FUTURE of Journalism. Actually, they ARE the future, or at least part of it. And it’s a tough enough battle right now for credible bloggers like SBNation to look credible in the eyes of the industry without sites like Bleacher Report tarnishing the entire reputation of blogs. The industry should be starting to embrace the new journalism…instead, they can’t embrace it because of the hacks like Bleacher Report. It’s a shame, because I think SBNation could be a forerunner in the ‘new’ industry if the current industry would embrace it.

The shoddy, irresponsible reporting that goes on in the blogosphere makes it really difficult to try and present responsible, fact-based, source-driven reporting. Because it’s in the same “class”, it ends up immediately taken with a grain of salt. I’ve stopped referring to my site as a blog now, and started calling it a “news site”. The media relations director for the Allen Americans told me that earlier this summer..she said “Ben, you’re not a blog. Don’t put yourself there…you’re a news site.” And that stuck with me. But, like it or not, we’re still all put in with them. Unless we hold ourselves to a higher level, we’ll never be respected. So, bravo!!

It’s always fun to read those rumors, but when you start thinking that they might be the truth…
If you guys, Heika, Stepneski or Durrett ain’t telling more of these rumors…
It’s probably nothing… Not always, but almost every time.

It’s just ridiculous. 2 dozen statements, no details, no links, no sources cited.

Are you kidding me? My high school english teacher would throw a fit.

read the first part of the header and said “Yay!” then kept reading and said “Aww!”

I’ve got a plan: stop reading the useless blogs because you’re bored, and you won’t have cause to find fault with them. Done.

Good post, Art.

Great post!

/slow clap

Great job Art.

They’re giving bloggers, such as myself, a bad reputation, and it’s not right. I don’t try to give the facts; I try to give my opinions based on what I know is fact. What they do over there makes me ill.

just for funsies.

I’ll start.

“The Dallas Stars have announced a trade with the Calgary Flames. Dallas receives defenseman Dion Phaneuf for defenseman Matt Niskanen, forward Tom Wandell and a 2011 second round draft pick.”

Oh, Bleacher Report. Little did you know Phaneuf is on the Maple Leafs.

James Neal signing an offer sheet with whoever the “writers’” favorite team happens to be.