Earlier this week, Tablet published a comprehensive — and damning — exposé on the hostile anti-Semitic takeover of the Women’s March.
And if you happen to be among the many who helped to share Tablet’s piece, you might want to check your email inbox:
Who else got this weird email claiming to have contradicting information on @TabletMag's story on the Women's March but requiring an off-the-record agreement to share any of it? I've never seen anything quite like this before. pic.twitter.com/dWqyg23XtT
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) December 12, 2018
Judging from my mentions, they sent this email out to quite a lot of people…
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) December 12, 2018
Check it out:
me
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) December 12, 2018
Me!
— Christmas Rou-dolph???? (@crousselle) December 12, 2018
I did.
— Emma Teitel (@EmmaRoseTeitel) December 12, 2018
LOL at this ham-fisted, amateur PR response to @tabletmag's expose on the anti-Semitism that forms the foundation of the Women's March. "Promise to delete your tweet about an article we don't like, and we might send you 'facts' you're not allowed to publish because journalism." pic.twitter.com/GMMD5bT1Cg
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 12, 2018
Hmmmmm… cc: @SethAMandel pic.twitter.com/qje6FHEQpR
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 12, 2018
Uh what pic.twitter.com/fDvIu77Cgq
— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) December 12, 2018
I also received this https://t.co/jTaKrpX3uk
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) December 12, 2018
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I too received this bizarre email. I didn’t even tweet it, I retweeted someone else’s tweet. pic.twitter.com/Whg0oNoVEW
— Christmas Rou-dolph???? (@crousselle) December 12, 2018
So, what’s the deal?
This is very unusual. I don't understand why they want me to go off the record if they have some sort of contradicting information. Heck, I didn't even write the piece. I didn't even tweet about it. I retweeted others who tweeted about it.
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) December 12, 2018
This is the weirdest attempt at damage control I've ever seen. If you have information that supposedly clears your client then you should share it publicly instead of trying to go off-the-record with every reporter who tweeted (or even RTed) the story. It makes no sense.
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) December 12, 2018
They also claim the original Tablet story is being corrected but there aren't any corrections or notes on the story so I'm very skeptical of that claim. Here is the story so you can see for yourself: https://t.co/sOVxrbZQlS
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) December 12, 2018
Speaking of weird, the email appears to have been sent by Inarú Meléndez, communications coordinator for Megaphone Strategies, a self-described “not-for-profit social justice media strategy firm.” Megaphone Strategies was also co-founded by … Van Jones.
Looks like Van Jones' PR firm is going to war against Tablet for its blistering report on the Women's March https://t.co/q8CP0lOkjx
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) December 12, 2018
How do you like that?
In any event, this won’t do the Women’s March any favors.
Yoohoo, @MP_Strategies… this is not going so well… https://t.co/MpBIXcojzG
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) December 12, 2018
I was under the impression that pr firms were supposed to mitigate damge not add to it.
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) December 12, 2018
So were we.
This should be a case study in how to piss off journalists and draw more attention to a bad story. https://t.co/82ygZbSfLg
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) December 12, 2018
Signs the Women's March is crumbling…….THIS. https://t.co/FlVRuAcjj6
— Kelsey Harkness (@kelseyjharkness) December 12, 2018
Couldn’t be happening to a nicer group of gals.