You don't understand what public knowledge means. It is defined as "knowledge that is available to anyone".
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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
I was speaking directly to his naive belief that people would make public quotations of what they know about their teammates' or colleagues' private lives.
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A teammate knowing something about Rose and not telling the pubic does not make it public knowledge.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
Or that journalists would publish anywhere near everything they know about someone--especially someone they like. That's naive. That's all I was referring to.
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A journalist who interviews Rose and then never prints what he said does not make what he said public knowledge.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
However, many of those same people may make private statements to many people. That's how it is or was.
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A private statement to someone does not make it public knowledge. See the definition above.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
But this 153 guy went on about how if it wasn't heard by his ears or read by his eyes that it wasn't public knowledge. How did I know, if it wasn't public knowledge? I was hanging out in and around ballplayers in Los Angeles for crying out loud. It doesn't get much more public than that. I didn't see anyone else behave the way Rose did.
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Once again that is a private statement. What the ballplayer said to you was not available for anyone to hear.