Mark Parrish Traded
Mark Parrish has been traded from the New York Islanders. I bet you’d like to know which team he’s on now. Me too, but that information isn’t available yet.
See, RDS is reporting just that: Parrish has been traded, but they don’t know which team the Islanders traded with.
To roughly translate:
The trade occurred early Tuesday night and it’s not known which team he will continue his career with.
For reference: Google’s translation of the entire page (from French to English).
Update 930am: TSN is reporting Parrish hasn’t been traded… yet.
Update 300pm: I’d like to point out that there is no mention of the trade anymore on RDS. Apparently, one can post a rumor as news, let another branch of the news organization make a retraction (without any source being specifically named), and then just ignore it like it never happened.
Update Mar 8 800pm: Mark Parrish was traded to the LA Kings. The full deal was Mark Parrish and Brent Sopel for Denis Grebeshkov, Jeff Tambellini and a conditional third-round pick in the 2006 draft.
Comments:
RDS and TSN are about as separated as they come. You’re right though — that is pretty bizarre.
Posted by James Mirtle on Mar 07, 2006 at 06:26 PMI realize they’re pretty separate entities - but the two are tied together by a parent corp, and I think it’s caused them to be a little soft. I think normally TSN would name the original (or major) source of the misinformation. I have seen the two credit each other, yet this time it was just a “website report” according to TSN. RDS didn’t credit any other website, so I think it’s safe to assume RDS is “the website” and TSN isn’t pointing fingers due to the connection, no matter how loose it is.
From the corporate standpoint, I understand it. From the media standpoint, I don’t care for it.
Posted by David M Singer on Mar 07, 2006 at 07:08 PM
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