FanIQ News: After Raiders deny his report that a portion of the Oakland franchise is being sold, ESPN's Chris Mortensen responds with, "The Raiders have lost the privilege with me of running stories past them for comment"

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1/5/09

After Raiders deny his report that a portion of the Oakland franchise is being sold, ESPN's Chris Mortensen responds with, "The Raiders have lost the privilege with me of running stories past them for comment"

NFL, Rumors, Oakland Raiders, Al Davis, Tagged as: Raiders sale | Chris Mortensen has lost his mind

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The poor Raiders have now lost the privilege of talking to Chris Mortensen. What a shame.

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1/5/09

Boski93

4	Mort, you have come a long way from exposing the Mob's failed attempt to get a foothold in the NFL.

1/5/09

Keeter

0	I'm sure Al Davis is just heartbroken by Mort's comment !!!

1/5/09

Heyhey1970

2	Aside from being funny, Mortensen admits to crossing a dangerous line. He will make the news any way he chooses and if you don't treat him the way he expects, the standards of journalistic integrity won't stop him from double-checking a source. That's really amazing.

1/5/09

Pat

Heyhey1970 wrote:

Aside from being funny, Mortensen admits to crossing a dangerous line. He will make the news any way he chooses and if you don't treat him the way he expects, the standards of journalistic integrity won't stop him from double-checking a source. That's really amazing.

But is anyone surprised? Mort's only accurate 30% of the time anyway, so what's the use in checking his sources? If you're going to be wrong anyway, you might as well make things interesting, right?

1/5/09

Boski93

4	Mort, you have come a long way from exposing the Mob's failed attempt to get a foothold in the NFL.

1/5/09

beerstudk

2	..... in other news today, ESPN's Chris Mortenson still has his freaking job even though he does, in fact, suck.

1/5/09

Heyhey1970

0	Pat wrote: But is anyone surprised? Mort's only accurate 30% of the time anyway, so what's the use in checking his sources? If you're going to be wrong anyway, you might as well make things interesting, right? I'm with you. The audacity of that kind of statement is wild though.

1/5/09

kantwistaye

3	Any organiztion with journalist credibility would fire Mort over that statement. The fact that ESPN hasn't or won't says alot about them.

1/5/09

chicachericola

1	Wait, did that imply that there was some attempt at responsible journalism happening at ESPN? If that's the case, i'm a little scared to know what they are like when they are irresponsible.