'tarulestheday' pid='27676' datel Wrote:Tree: I think we are making this more complicated than it really is. >>exclusive talks ended without a deal. >>Non-exclusive talks continue. Both IOC and the NY Compost said the same thing.
No, The Post is the one who made it "complicated". They may have said the "same thing" IF you put both sentences in separate paragraphs together and interpret them properly, which would be less likely for people who don't know and understand all this like we do. It was NOT said in the same way as IOC, and was very poorly written. If you write one sentence in a separate paragraph that taken by itself is false, and then write a separate clarifying sentence in a different paragraph, you are inviting misinterpretation by readers and misquoting of a sentence taken out of context, resulting in some people being misled, intentional or not. I think that is essentially what Tree's criticism is about, although taken as a whole it may not be a "lie", IF there was no intention to mislead, which in this case there PROBABLY was not, although I am continually amazed at the lies and distortions shorts apparently can get into the "media".