Tanner's Take:
Just days before the NBA dropped the hammer, ESPN was reporting that there was no direct evidence Ballmer had circumvented the salary cap.
Meanwhile, independent journalist and former ESPN reporter Pablo Torre spent a year digging into the story, uncovering evidence and ultimately winning a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting.
In this video, I look at how ESPN got it so badly wrong, why I think the episode has done enormous damage to the company and Ramona Shelburne’s journalistic credibility, and why this entire saga perfectly encapsulates the declining trust in legacy media, and the extraordinary rise of independent digital journalism.