NBC, TMZ make wrong calls on Sterling racism story

Associated Press ^ | Apr 29, 2014 5:52 PM EDT

[Olog-hai]

NBC and TMZ are the latest to learn how the irresistible urge for a scoop, even for a matter of minutes, can burn a news organization.

NBC on Tuesday quoted an anonymous source when it incorrectly reported how the NBA was punishing Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for racist comments just minutes before league commissioner Adam Silver announced it. NBC reported Sterling would be banned indefinitely and fined $5 million. Silver banned Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million. […]

TMZ cited “sources familiar with the situation” in reporting the wrong punishment about 20 minutes before NBC. TMZ said that Silver had “tentatively decided” to suspend Sterling indefinitely. TMZ similarly couched its report of a $5 million fine by saying it was tentative. …

[cripplecreek]

Former University of Michigan athlete Trey Burke and rapper Waka Flocka Flame are also said to have also joined in on the teasing.

The photo on Shaq's Instagram has been taken down.

Wimbley contacted Shaq via Twitter, officials with Burke's team, Utah Jazz, and Waka Flocka Flame's record label. No one responded.

[bgill]

Much ado about nothing. Mountain out of a molehill. Out of control PC jackboots out of control.

[Jane Long]

New era, new rules, new laws. Got it?

[EEGator]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/28/in-wake-of-sterling-fiasco-ex-knicks-great-larry-johnson-appears-to-call-for-all-black-league/

[publius911]

Couldn’t care less about this topic.

I join you in the disgust of this overkill distraction from monumentally bigger and better national crimes.

[Steven Tyler]

This guy made his regular payments to the NAACP, the Democrat Party, and all the assorted race hustlers such as Rev Al and Jessie Jackson.
Heck, the NAACP was about to give this a guy a second or third award.
They ENABLED his bigoted way of life.
Everyone is watching, will the RACE industry bail out this guy????

The guilt ridden liberals must be crapping their pants.

At the end of the day, all of their rent/extortion money paid to the Race mobsters is not buying protection!!

I pray they smarten up and turn off the cash flow to NAACP, Rev Al and Jessie Jackson

[mosesdapoet]

A silly,stupid,(perhaps even lonely, but really a jerk,)old fool. Was being serviced by a young female gold digger who was in turn being was being serviced by much youger black bucks at his expence which she paraded in front of him. Just to piss him off. Somehow after speaking with her lawyer sets up a situation where the dotting dupe seeing what little loyalty to him he expected from her being destroyed. Vents his frustration over a taped phone conversation that suddenly gets made public.

[hattend]

So, if the NBA banned me for life, why do they think I would pay a fine?

Dumbasses.