With the controversy in Dallas this week over whether bloggers should be given credentials to Mavericks game, and the ongoing disagreements about whether blogging is really reporting, I find it interesting that those on the "news reporting" side never feels the need to shine the magnifying glass on their own.

Take, for instance, some of the reports on the coaching search at Indiana University.  Here's a report from 1:30 this morning from Foxsports.com reporter Jeff Goodman:

Indiana offered its men's basketball coaching job to Tony Bennett one day after his Washington State team was knocked out of the NCAA tournament, a pair of sources told FOXSports.com.

But, ESPN.com's Andy Katz begs to differ:

Indiana is hoping to name a men's basketball coach by next Thursday...according to a source with first-hand knowledge of the school's search process. ..[t]he source also said a published report Saturday morning that Indiana had made an offer to Washington State head coach Tony Bennett was inaccurate. Indiana has not offered anyone the job, according to the source.

So, basically, one of the two is completely wrong.  One would think they're not lying - one of them probably just has a bad source - but whomever ends up being wrong ought to be called out and held accountable for their mistake.  Otherwise, the inaccurate reporting is just going to continue.

Now, my money is on Katz being right.  Why?  Because Goodman has a history of being wrong on reports related to Indiana basketball.  On Thursday, February 21st, Goodman wrote on Fox's website that former IU coach Kelvin Sampson had been told on that morning that he would no longer lead the program (quote courtesy of Inside The Hall):

Sampson was informed early Thursday that he will no longer be the coach at Indiana, numerous sources told FOXSports.com.

But here's where it gets interesting.  When you click on the link embedded in the Inside The Hall post, it takes you not to that article, but to one that was updated the next day.  Yes, the evidence of Goodman's incorrect writings has been erased, and replaced by a "cleansed" version.  And what was in this cleansed version?

Sources have told FOXSports.com that Sampson will not be coaching the Hoosiers for at least the remainder of this season...[i]nitially on Thursday, two sources told FOXSports.com that Sampson would be immediately terminated. However, one of the sources later backtracked, saying Sampson would either be fired or suspended. The second source steadfastly maintains that Sampson will be fired.

So, on Thursday the sources said that Sampson was already fired, but the next day those sources said that he "would be" fired?  Either Goodman's trying to cover for an incorrect source, or he just flat-out misrepresented what his source told him initially so he could get the "big scoop".  No matter where the truth lies in this, it'd be nice if there was some sort of transparency in the reporting.

So the next time one of the "establishment" reporters starts to rip on bloggers as being a bunch of unprofessional kooks writing in the parents' basement, I'd like for them to also tell us when they plan on starting to police their own.