John Tomase of the Boston Herald, the author of the Spygate walk through scandal has finally issued a post on this mess. John’s post reads in full:
Readers of this space have probably been asking themselves, “Where the hell is Tomase?” over the last couple of days and it’s a fair query. Right now I’m just landing from Washington and working on a story about Arlen Specter’s press conference regarding his interview with Matt Walsh.
While that is going to have me tied up for the rest of the night, I just wanted to make one thing clear – I know I screwed up on the Rams taping story and I don’t intend to hide behind today’s apology or an editor’s note. In Friday’s Herald I will explain as clearly as I can where that story went wrong and begin the journey of restoring your trust in my reporting.
I cannot in good conscience demand accountability of the people I cover and then not provide it myself. So it’s coming on Friday. Just be patient.
John
While I will reserve final judgement until Friday for now I will say this is the right thing to do by Tomase. It takes a repentant person to admit his mistakes and I look forward to seeing what he has on Friday.
It is the right thing to do yes but it shouldn’t have taken this long for an apology.
I agree it is a bit long to wait but I’m interested in seeing how he redeems himself. As a said in the post about this earlier he needs to apologize in person to the Kraft’s, Belichick and the very least the team captains.