Anonymous Knicks beat reporter on MSG surveillance: “I had a report and then I get a call from the Knicks shortly after that. ‘I know who your source is,’ … I said ‘How did you know I spoke to that person? There was nobody around.’ And the person said ‘You know us. We’re always watching.’”
Torre:
“There is a working assumption in the media room, where these reporters file their stories that it might be bugged. There’s the running joke when they’re criticizing a roster move that the team did, they point up at the ceiling and say ‘Did you hear that, James?’ What one Knicks writer said to us— and they asked to remain anonymous in fear of retribution— they told us this story:”
Modulized recording of anonymous Knicks reporter:
“A few years back, I had a report and then I get a call from the Knicks shortly after that. ‘I know who your source is,’ And I’m like ‘I don’t play guess-the-source,’ and the person is like ‘I know this is your source.” I asked ‘where is this coming from, why are you so certain on this?’ The person says ‘I know you had a conversation with this executive.’ … I said ‘You know what this conversation was? I was just offering condolences on the death in his family.’ And the person said to me ‘Would you have offered your condolences to that person if he wasn’t your source?’ I said ‘Yes! That’s what being a human being is!’ I said ‘How did you know I spoke to that person? There was nobody around.’ And the person said ‘You know us. We’re always watching.’”