Lazy journalism follow-up

Over at TrueHoop they're having a much less verbose discussion of what I talked about last post.

This all reminds me of the debate on process vs. results. Does anyone remember seeing some expert talk about that? The gist, as I remember it, is that people — journalists, politicians, businessfolk, etc. — overvalue the result of a single action when evaluating, say, the final shot in a basketball game. They ignore the process before the shot and fail to factor in probability and uncertainty. That is, if Dirk (or Vince Carter in the TrueHoop post) passes to an open teammate and they miss, it's a bad play and a sign that the player is weak, unwilling to step up and play like a star, blah, blah, blah. But if the player makes it, the superstar made an amazing play in trusting his teammates, a la Michael Jordan's numerous assists in huge games (Steve Kerr!).

I wish I could remember where I read that. It sounds like something Malcolm Gladwell would talk about. Anyone?