John Tierney

That's okay.

You don't have to be like my siblings that have hundreds of friends and everyone knows about them and you-- they say, "Oh, we know about Michael Tierney or Richard Tierney or John Tierney." They know these people.

And me, they don't know who I am, but they know I'm, I'm their brother, but that's it.

I don't mind that.

I got tipped off that they were poking around it.

I talked to the news director, John Tierney, that night, eight or 10 minutes before the story broke.

And, you know, I said to him, like, you know, what are you guys doing with this? He said, you know, we are reporter after Braden Bell got hired.

We just sort of looked at his profile and said, well, who is this guy? You know, who did the Blazers just hire? Right.

Now the investigation by Tegna, if we can call it an investigation, Yeah, I think it's more of a CYA move by Tegna to be like, hey, were we fair with this guy in reporting about his profile? And I think where the fairness comes in is KGW didn't run with this story after they found the tweets.

They turned to the Blazers and said, hey, we found these tweets.

Do you guys have a comment on it? I was told by the news director that KGW did not plan to make this the lead story.

This would not have led their 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 11 o'clock newscast.