The battle between rival news organizations to be first to break a story is always a heated one. Sometimes they are even fun to watch. The point is, anytime they screw up it’s always a good time to point and laugh. Today, we had just such an occasion. Throughout Patrick Patterson’s entire recruitment he has been playing his cards close to the vest. No one could really get a good read on which school he would choose. That was until today at 3:08pm. That’s right, a full 37 minutes before he officially makes his decision WOWK-TV in Huntington breaks the story and announces that Patrick Patterson is headed to FLORIDA! See for yourself.
Only one problem with that. The press conference didn’t start until 3:45. So, one of a couple of things happened here. Either they had a source that said it was a “done deal” to Florida and they went with it or they just pre-wrote both stories and posted one of them. Here is the corrected version with a misspelled “Kentuckuy” in the first sentence.
This is classic - among your best stuff. Congrats on catching this. I love stuff like this. Just tally one more ‘pro’ screw-up to the chalk board (the other being Mr. Andy ‘I don’t know how to spell Ramel’ Katz).