Do you know how much longer till the story comes out?
I am sure there are other people on the forum who have caught wind of this. Anyone who works in and around news, journalism, media, etc is going to be aware of certain things.
Timeline wise, I will say this: the story is being vetted to within an inch of its life. Given the stakes, there is no margin of error here. So it’s kind of an ‘as long as it takes’ kind of scenario, but I know it is very close to being bullet-proof.
The larger frame of reference is this: the idea that the Star and the Globe are going to stop digging into the Ford story until it completes itself is laughable. Reporters LOVE to dig—especially if they have something to prove. And this story is just way too juicy. It’s the kind of story reporters live for. It’s the reason they wanted to become journalists in the first place.
At the heart of all this is a simple truth, which the Fords have never understood: You don’t taunt serious journalists. You don’t accuse them of making stuff up.
You don’t impugn their integrity. Especially if it’s
you that has
a lot to hide. Especially if it’s
you that’s lying—and you’re doing it
repeatedly. All that to say: the Fords are going to rue the day they decided to provoke this fight.
Anybody who knows anything about journalists knows one thing: they are fiercely competitive. And they don’t take kindly to being called liars. By forcing the issue, and trying to weasel out of the jam they’re in by essentially claiming that the Star and the Globe are lying, they are daring the media to prove their case. In doing so, they have guaranteed their own destruction. This will not stop until everything comes out, even if it ends up in the Supreme Court.
Anyway, these guys remind me of those stories of small town hoods who try and make it in the big city, who try to play with the big boys, only to have everything blow up in their face. They’re just suburban goons who thought they could pull off the big score, and they lost everything doing it because they’re not smart enough to play the game.