by Frank Herron
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On Sunday, as mentioned here, Boston Herald sportswriter Steve Buckley passed a hockey player’s statement on to that player’s coach and asked for comment. Steve acknowledged he might not have gotten the player’s statement exactly right. Fortunately, the coach remembered … Continue reading
by Frank Herron
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Quotes are not only reported. They are sometimes—often, really–used by journalists to elicit responses from newsmakers. Accuracy is important in either case. The fragile nature of quoting and quote-retelling surfaced during a postgame press conference Sunday May 19, 2013, after … Continue reading
by Frank Herron
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In her breathless, I-rarely-have-time-for-a-verb writing, gossipy Cindy Adams passes on quite a prediction that she attributes for former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (shown at the right). She presented it (on Page 12 of the September 18 issue of … Continue reading