Some people are just vindictive pricks. I cannot believe a political disagreement can turn into warfare by any means, but that is exactly what a Huffington Post reported did to woman and her family whose twitter account offended his snowflake sensibilities. What did Luke O’Brien of the Huffington Post do? He did a little thing called doxing, but with a vengeance. Here is an excerpt from Fox News:
Lately, it’s become a tool of so-called journalism. The Daily Beast used it to target the daughters of conservative Pamela Geller. This time it was used both by and against HuffPost staff. Reporter Luke O’Brien went digging into the woman behind a popular Twitter account with about 220,000 followers.
O’Brien’s subsequent article didn’t just attack the author of the account. It went after her family. Here’s the unsubtle headline: “Trump’s Loudest Anti-Muslim Twitter Troll Is A Shady Vegan Married To An (Ousted) WWE Exec.” Only at the time he wasn’t “ousted.”
The story mentioned the woman’s husband who worked for pro wrestling’s WWE by name. O’Brien didn’t stop at targeting the man’s wife. He went after the man’s employer, asking for comment about the Twitter account.
O’Brien wasn’t satisfied with what he heard the first time from the WWE, so he tried again. This time he got results. “Now that it has come to our attention” the man (who I am choosing not to name) is no longer an employee,” said a WWE spokesperson. The completed story mentioned the WWE 10 separate times.
O’Brien’s story even brought in the woman’s brother and his wife, though they had nothing to do with her activities.
“Her brother runs a popular restaurant and craft beer bar in Brooklyn that also bears the family name,” O’Brien wrote
What a lowlife piece of trash. Apparently, what goes around, comes around because O’Brien got his just desserts along with other Huffington Post staff. What’s that saying? Live by the sword, die by the sword. I hope these people learned a lesson.
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/10/new-york-times-wants-to-bury-reporting-scandal-and-other-examples-media-madness.html
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