On the other hand, if the movie's title is SpyFall (or Skyfall), if Ralph Fiennes is in the cast, if the character of Blofeld is brought back in a new version, etc., then it's a bit of a stretch to say all of the news accounts (tabloids or not) made it up. That would be an incredibly lucky set of guesses. Also, Bardem was reported earlier and the actor himself confirmed it recently. That's one of the news reports that has come to pass.
Back in 2009, Fernando Alonso moved from the Renault F1 team to Ferrari. It was widely reported that he had signed a contract as early as March. However, he did not actually join the team until September, and later admitted that he had not actually been approached until the end of May. Does that make the tabloids that reported him joining the team in March right?
Yes, Bardem was reported to be in negotiations several months ago - but Bardem himself admitted it early on. He had obviously signed on in the time since (as THE DARK TOWER collapsed), but you can't credit the tabloids for correctly predicting that Bardem would sign up on the basis of an undisclosed source that nobody else has. It's the same thing with the "Skyfall" talk; there's a precedent. We can actually see the evidence for ourselves if we check with MarkMonitor. In fact, half the stories you cite have a basis in reality that we can check for ourselves. But not the Finney article. Bamigboye is trading on faith. He's essentially saying "you should believe this because I'm reporting it and I've been right before". But if you actually read the article, his evidence in all of this is an EON executive who is as enthusiastic about it as he is anonymous. When Amy Winehouse was said to be the favourite for the QUANTUM OF SOLACE theme (I doubt EON would have gone near her myself), those same faceless producers were talking things up (with the same gushing enthisiasm), and it never eventuated. And when you really think about it, why would the producers leak information about the film? If EON have the power to remove images from the Twitter feeds of extras, imagine what they could do to people in actual positions within the company. Any executive who spoke to a tabloid against EON's wishes would likely be fired, and they'd probably make it very difficult for that person to be employed in the film industry for a long time to come.
Bamigboye has nothing. He's nicely trussed up; he can't reveal his source without jeopardising someone's livelihood, but he can't keep his source to himself because he loses credibility. So he tries to trade on his name, but I wouldn't even use his articles to wipe my behind with. He's a bottom feeder, and one of the worst forms of journalist: peddling rumours, sensationalising things, and grinning as he feeds us crap after convinving us that it's gravy. The only journalist he has any claim to be better than is Andrew Bolt.
