Matt Calkins: What was your reaction to Dan Wolken writing about you, as well as your reaction to this Twitter firestorm as a whole?
Mike Leach: Um, ambivalence to a point. The biggest thing is, I don’t know who exactly that guy is, but the thing is people in the industry hate him too from what I understand. And some of that is because they disrespect his skills as a reporter and expect a little more bias than he provides because he hides behind some agenda and tries to push it forward and act like … MORE
Dan Wolken responds
Wolken: So that’s what he said, that I’ll be selling Big Gulps?
Calkins: Yeah…
Wolken: I guess we’ll see about that.
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Calkins: Do you mean a little less bias?
Leach: Yeah, they expect less bias because I think he’s 100 percent biased. Anyway, I think he does a horrible job and doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It doesn’t matter what anybody says, he’s just gonna distort the thing. He’ll probably be selling Big Gulps here in a couple years. I don’t know. As I think about it, I ought to let all that take its course.
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Mike Leach: Um, ambivalence to a point. The biggest thing is, I don’t know who exactly that guy is, but the thing is people in the industry hate him too from what I understand. And some of that is because they disrespect his skills as a reporter and expect a little more bias than he provides because he hides behind some agenda and tries to push it forward and act like …
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Dan Wolken responds
Wolken: So that’s what he said, that I’ll be selling Big Gulps?
Calkins: Yeah…
Wolken: I guess we’ll see about that.
Read more »
Calkins: Do you mean a little less bias?
Leach: Yeah, they expect less bias because I think he’s 100 percent biased. Anyway, I think he does a horrible job and doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It doesn’t matter what anybody says, he’s just gonna distort the thing. He’ll probably be selling Big Gulps here in a couple years. I don’t know. As I think about it, I ought to let all that take its course.