Talk:John Sepulvado
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XRAY.FM[edit]
The article states that Spulvado "helped found" XRAY.FM. I've just been exploring the unique founding story of this radio station (which I also followed at the time). It's a complex origin story, and many entities and people have been mentioned in various articles (cited at the station's Wikipedia article) as having played a role in the founding. However, this is the only place I've seen a mention of Sepulvado as having helped found it. (Perhaps he was one of the 20,000 or so people who signed an early petition, or one of those who contributed to a ~$100,000 crowdfunding campaign, but if that's the reasoning it seems a stretch to state that he helped found it as part of his bio.) The first of the sources cited says only that he had "contributions to countless other stations" including XRAY. The second is an episode of Marketplace. I don't know if it's still archived and can't listen to it right now. But IMO a claim like this should have very good sourcing, and unless it's stated as part of a news item in the Marketplace piece (i.e. not merely as a throwaway line in a bio) I'd suggest it should be removed. Of course, if anybody knows of a source I haven't found, too, please mention it -- I don't have intimate knowledge of the founding or who was involved. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 21:14, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
- I listened to the Marketplace interview, which concerned comedy in Portland. As far as I can tell it had no bearing whatsoever on anything in the paragraph it was attached to. There was also an interview with a Kill Rock Stars executive, but it didn't mention Sepulvado. I'm going to delete the paragraph based on strong claim and insufficient sourcing. (For easy reference it's at the end of this revision of the article.) -Pete Forsyth (talk) 17:32, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
Peabody Award - bio inflation?[edit]
The claim that Sepulvado "was part of a team that won a Peabody Award" seems highly dubious. There is no citation, I've been unable to find any link, and above all, the timeline and position do not seem to support that at all. It looks like he joined CNN only after the Peabody ward was received—and even if he was hired a little earlier than I've been able to determine, the process for evaluation for a Peabody appears quite rigorous—it would take many months to go through a process like this. Unless somebody's able to dig up some solid sourcing for this exceptional claim, it should be removed from the article. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 19:03, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- Per the footnote in the article, the award was announced April 1, 2011 (with no mention of Sepulvado). Digging around in CNN archives, so far the earliest mention I've found is from February 2011. Appears that in January 2011 he worked for Capital Public Radio. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 19:10, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Connection to the Edward R. Murrow Award team is not sourced either. Seems like a fair amount of exaggeration in this article. I've cut this as well, I'll post to WP:JOURN to see if we can get additional eyes on this. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 18:51, 20 October 2020 (UTC)