dave punched back
and won
if he really wants to punch back drop a massive lawsuit
The piece, published by Post reporters Tim Carman and Emily Heil Friday, described Portnoy as someone who "has been no stranger to controversy." It mentioned his history of "sexist" and other insensitive comments, as well as allegations of sexual impropriety.
While on the phone with Portnoy, (Emily) Heil admitted to sending "negative" emails to the sponsors of the "One Bite" pizza festival in attempts to get sponsors to "engage," claiming that this is a common "reporting tactic" used by journalists.
"I think the fact that she was a food reporter and not necessarily in this world, she was just caught off guard. And then she did reveal, though, I don't want to say the secret sauce, but the unfortunate truth that they aren't after the truth. They're just trying to create negative headlines and get clicks," Portnoy proclaimed Sunday.
Portnoy also directed shade at food writer J. Kenji López-Alt, who was allegedly "obsessed" with trying to get people not to partake in the festival.
"I was talking to a lot of the pizza places and some of the people, like this guy Kenji López - who is just obsessed with trying to get people not to partake - he was emailing the pizza places literally the night before, getting their private information and shaming them. Being like, 'it's not too late to drop out.' Your like, dead dad would be ashamed of you. It was pretty crazy," he said.
"The thing about the hit piece is, what they try to do, whether it's those or The Washington Post, if you can just get one sponsor to drop, one pizza place to drop, which none of them did … so I owe them a huge thank you. That becomes a story in itself."
In times past the reporter would be punished by his employer for such shady tactics. Not any more.