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Actually, I think Wilner has done a very poor job on the TV deal, at least the DirecTV part of it. He's made little or no attempt to get DirecTV's view of events -- what he portrays at DirecTV's "thinking" is usually just the Pac-12's view of DirecTV. That's why, for months, he said DirecTV was just posturing as part of negotiations, but would sign a deal shortly before the 2011 football season began. Four years later, we're still waiting.

Fair enough, although I recall him being pretty careful about caveats.  I think that's more a sign of where he has sources... definitely in the Pac-12 office but none with DirectTV.  Of course, you could argue that that, in itself, is lazy journalism.  Wilner not having sources with DTV is not surprising, but other reporters, who cover the business of television, should.  In my field, if you lack certain expertise that you need for a particular domain, you collaborate with someone who does.  I'm not sure it should be any different in journalism, though I would imagine that the decimation of the journalist ranks probably hurts here.

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Actually, I think Wilner has done a very poor job on the TV deal, at least the DirecTV part of it. He's made little or no attempt to get DirecTV's view of events -- what he portrays at DirecTV's "thinking" is usually just the Pac-12's view of DirecTV. That's why, for months, he said DirecTV was just posturing as part of negotiations, but would sign a deal shortly before the 2011 football season began. Four years later, we're still waiting.

Fair enough, although I recall him being pretty careful about caveats.  I think that's more a sign of where he has sources... definitely in the Pac-12 office but none with DirectTV.  Of course, you could argue that that, in itself, is lazy journalism.  Wilner not having sources with DTV is not surprising, but other reporters, who cover the business of television, should.  In my field, if you lack certain expertise that you need for a particular domain, you collaborate with someone who does.  I'm not sure it should be any different in journalism, though I would imagine that the decimation of the journalist ranks probably hurts here.

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