Journalist Discusses Controversial Online Presence

On the side of-

I definitely should not have posted the threat.

That's ego, hubris, narcissism.

Right.

Guilty of all three. So what? The fact is that is how

I operate. And you know what? I don't crawl into your fucking work

emails

everybody out there and see how you fucking operate.

This is how I operate, and guess what? I've been able to operate for 20 years.

10 of those years outside of the trades independently. L- and guess where I live?

Santa Monica, California. So it's like I've been pretty

successful. I don't really need anybody's fucking

advice on how to be a journalist.

I know what the fuck I'm doing. Four people in this world

are allowed to criticize

me: Boris, Justin, Mike, Umberto. If you're...

if they're not your name, I don't give a fuck what you think 'cause

you've never

been in this fucking position. So shut the fuck up, okay?

Take notes and learn something or block and mute me.

I don't give a fuck.

But but that's my... "I don't give a fuck,"

but that's my question to you is, like,

if these people don't matter, and look, I would say this to anybody, if these

people don't matter why are you responding to them?

And I, and look, I'm, I'm guilty of n-

Because it's fun. I love getting people riled up,

and I love putting on a show.

I'm a performer, and I put shit together.

But is it worth-

Huh?

But is it worth alienating some people who would normally, like, follow you or

subscribe to you?

Who would ... If, if anyone would be alienated by my tweets-

Yeah

... right, after f- especially after, like, following me for years fol- like

following my newsletter-

Yeah

...following this show, like then I don't really give a fuck.

Like goodbye, good riddance. These are fake fans, fake...

Like gimme a break. I had one lady reach out, and she

was like, "I used to teach

your, you all the time in my journalism class,

you know?

And, um, you know, it was a while ago, but, uh, a- after seeing today I'm

glad, I'm glad I stopped." It's like, well lady,

you stopped before all this so you

know what? Fuck off. Like th- tha- thanks a lot.

But c- you know, I, I hate to learn journalism from you

because

you've never broken a story. And that's really the problem is

that you have as

bunch of people in journalism school teaching these fucking kids,

and they have no

idea how to fucking act. They come out, and they're like...

Where do you think you go trick-or-treating?

You think I go to CA and ring the doorbell

and ask for a fucking scoop? I take.

Yeah.

I take. That is how I feed myself. Why?

Because I have been shunned. I have been blacklisted.

People are, like calling for me to be blacklisted.

Guys, I hate to break it to you.

Uh, this happened 10 years ago. You're literally-

Right

.... 10 years late.

Right.

I've already been blacklisted,

okay?

Right.

I'm still here because I'm extraordinary

at what I do