No Shock: Bills in Toronto likely done?

[Tau Ceti]

"Combine this with his equally uncritical repetition that the game would be freebies free" -- so what would you have had him do? Call Albrecht a liar? Manufacture evidence of papering before he had it?

I would have had him express the deep skepticism any attendance claims by Rogers (for this series, at least) warrant. You don't have to directly accuse someone of lying to indicate to your reader that you're not accepting his claims at face value. I emphasize the lowered capacity issue because I think it shows that the skeptic cap had fallen off his head.

But anyway, we've beaten this subject to death. I'll certainly take your word for it that he's a fine journalist otherwise.