Random rumours
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Highlander
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Wellwood starts chain of Howard Berger Burgers, rumoured to be the best berger burgers in the NHL.
bustaheims
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Zee said:
The way he reported it was like it was actually going to happen, not him guessing they would. It was also well after they had bought out Komisarek. He "reported" the Leafs would buy out Liles in the post-arbitration buyout period. He's also just playing the odds here. He's really just putting two and two together - if the Leafs intend to keep Rielly, they need to move a defenceman so he can get regular ice time. They also need to clear cap space. Nothing newsworthy or groundbreaking. So, typical Berger.
bustaheims
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Zee said:
I think the blog is all he's got right now, so, whether or not he still has sources that are legit is very questionable.
Redleaf
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bustaheims said:
I'm not saying everything he reports is absolutely accurate and unbiased, but I don't think you can cover a hockey team as routinely as he did for twenty years and not pick up a few friends in high places, that are still in the game today. No need to completely discredit him here.
OldTimeHockey
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RedLeaf, this is a message board....surely our sources are better than Berger's 
bustaheims
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RedLeaf said:
His credibility was very questionable when he covered the team. The quality of the sources he had back then wasn't exactly high. It's not much of a stretch to believe that now that he's been away from the team for a few years, the few credible sources he may have once had are no longer willing to pass information on to him. Part of the reason he doesn't cover the team anymore is that he wasn't particularly well liked by those in management positions with the Leafs. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he doesn't have any more "friends in high places," as he didn't have many when he was working.
Kin
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RedLeaf said:
But people don't typically leak things to sources because they're "friends". They do so because they want an advocate or they want to send a message anonymously or to influence public perception from cover. The symbiotic relationship exists so that reporters have things to report and sources have means of direct communication with the public. A reporter is only valuable in that regard to the extent that what they write is read by people and so it's not unfair at all to suggest that someone wouldn't have access if they...lost professional access.
bustaheims
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RedLeaf said:
Berger was a hack well before he lost his press pass.
Corn Flake
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RedLeaf said:
But the minute they changed program directors at the Fan he was canned. Suggests to me he was protected by one guy who liked him. He must have liked him a lot for all the issues he caused, including almost getting sued by Sean Avery. Seemed like once a year he was issuing a public apology for something he did.
bustaheims
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RedLeaf said:
Just because he maintained his job doesn't mean he was good at it. Especially in the later years. He got caught a number of times purely making things up or trusting "sources" that had no reliability or inside information - like the whole 'Ron Wilson's cousin email' BS. He may not have been a hack his entire career, but he certainly became one later in it. He did not adapt well to the internet becoming such a big part of sports coverage.
His last few years on the job, he basically tried to be Damian Cox, but without being able to write as well as Damian Cox.
Corn Flake
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Bogosian for Gardiner.
Corn Flake
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bustaheims said:
Plus he started writing for Hockey Buzz near the end.. if you choose to do that your credibility is instantly dropped a few notches.
Corn Flake said:
I'd do that but I'm not crazy about Bogo's contract.
bustaheims
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Corn Flake said:
Well, in his defence, he wasn't actually writing for the site itself. He just agreed to repost the same stories he put on his blog on their site. Reaching a wider audience isn't necessarily a poor move and isn't in and of itself detrimental to your credibility, but, in his case . . . well, reaching a wider audience just made his declining credibility that much more obvious. On top of that, he started pandering to the audience that frequents that site, and, well, he didn't make any friends doing that either.