Whitlock: Emotion And Clicks – Not Journalism – Ruling Hardy Coverage

[Kaiser]

Its amazing, after TWO FREAKING YEARS we have exactly one reporter who took the time to read the public information that half this message board read before Hardy was even a free agent.

And even then, he makes mistakes about the facts of the case. He wrote this -

Both parties reportedly drank to great excess.

I wouldn't characterize Holder as drinking to "great excess" but that is semantic. Hardy had no alcohol or very little, and the writer is trying to create the impression that Hardy was falling down drunk at the time of the incident. Listen to the 911 call, he clearly isn't intoxicated, much less having "drunk to great excess".

 

[texbumthelife]

Its amazing, after TWO FREAKING YEARS we have exactly one reporter who took the time to read the public information that half this message board read before Hardy was even a free agent.

And even then, he makes mistakes about the facts of the case. He wrote this -

Both parties reportedly drank to great excess.

I wouldn't characterize Holder as drinking to "great excess" but that is semantic. Hardy had no alcohol or very little, and the writer is trying to create the impression that Hardy was falling down drunk at the time of the incident. Listen to the 911 call, he clearly isn't intoxicated, much less having "drunk to great excess".

If I am not mistaken, in court documents and statements to police, Hardy himself has said he was intoxicated.

 

[Kaiser]

If I am not mistaken, in court documents and statements to police, Hardy himself has said he was intoxicated.

No, Hardy testified in the bench trial that he had some champagne when they were at the club. At 270 pounds, Hardy would need to drink a dozen or so bottles of champagne to have "drunk to great excess".