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Originally Posted by squiggs96
Botchford says he's never seen a situation like that? Oh really? Would he be surprised that a situation like that has come up, in Vancouver and he wrote about it?
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Botchford might be able to get off on a technicality, being that Keith might not have been in a scrum, or he might not have used the words 'shut up'. Botchford was well aware that Keith said that Thomson hadn't played the game. If you are going to lie to the media on TSN, at least make sure someone can't find it by using Google for 30 seconds. What he said yesterday is patently false and shows us his true colours. I hope he gets fired.
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It's pretty obvious to me, at least, that this makes the situations completely different. The issue that's being discussed is whether it's okay to report a comment by a player who's not currently being interviewed, if that player speaks up to the media member in response to a question to the player who IS being interviewed. Joe wasn't being interviewed, and took it upon himself to engage the reporter, directly, in a discussion. Keith was being interviewed when he made that comment. Two entirely different situations.
I'm not saying Botchford was right to report what he did from a journalistic standpoint, by the way, though I am glad he did because it's a good quote and I like Joe Thornton more now having heard it. I just think that in discussing it people shouldn't spew BS about who said what when the facts aren't really contested.