Dave Portnoy Calls Out Journalist

[Ben]

I'm not a big Portnoy fan, but this is great. A reporter sent out denigrating emails about him to his sponsors for a hit piece article, and he cold called her on the phone calling her out about the hit piece after his sponsors forwarded what she was going to write about him. She claims she wrote the denigrating stuff to get a reaction out of his sponsors. The twitchy article shows her history of biased reporting.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1704574353415823411

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2023/09/20/barstools-dave-portnoy-wapo-reporter-n2387511

[Hawkmoon]

Reporter: "I do want to talk to you about this ... so much so that I have made NO attempt to contact you, and I would not have contacted you if you hadn't called me out on my libelous statement."

[Ben]

Reporter: "I do want to talk to you about this ... so much so that I have made NO attempt to contact you, and I would not have contacted you if you hadn't called me out on my libelous statement."

What I like is the part where she explains that using libelous statements to get a reaction and response are a standard journalistic practice. Which I guess is true in today's journalism.