[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by GullFoss

I think a reasonable assumption is to assume that anyone posting insider knowledge has access to 1-2 people in the organization at most. And those people aren't snow, Conroy, Tre, Sutter, Bean, etc. It's probably an analyst, maybe a single player, a friend of a player, equipment manager, wife is friends with wife of player, scout, agent of middle six forward, etc.

At best they are getting a partial snippet of a story, one perspective of many and at best, it's heavily biased. To take one poster's anonymous source with anything more than a grain of salt is a bit silly.

Even the media - who has access to many more people around the league - is going to be biased by whom they get access to and how much they like the personalities involved, and how many clicks a story will get. And people reaching out to the media are usually pushing their own narrative and so the media isn't ever getting an unbiased version of a story and then they're adding their own bias on top of it.

As an example, Tre clearly a very good guy, treated media personalities well on human level and it shows in their reporting. Is the reporting on Tre biased to some extent - both by the journalist's personal opinion of the people involved and who they have access to? It would be naive to think otherwise.

Sorry. What are you actually trying to say?