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Message: [QUOTE="DS3, post: 6358652, member: 407846"] PokerNews followed up with a podcast about the Sarah Herrings interview with Bryn Kenney and it in turn was as disappointing as the original interview. Naturally the premise put forward by Sarah Herring and Chad Holloway was that they were caught between a rock and a hard place. No you were not. You present as a news service to the poker community and whilst some such as myself have seldom taken the ‘news’ idea seriously, you actually had a chance to handle the matter with integrity but you did not. Sarah Herring - ‘I knew I was going to be eating a shit sandwich...part of me which did not want to do it but I felt obliged to do it’. Chad Holloway admits Bryn would only talk to Sarah Herring, his friend and no one else. That apparently did not send a big enough red flag up the pole for you to reconsider the interview. At least Jesse Fullen, the producer was pretty open that it was a fail...’it was rough, I just kept shaking my head, he was definitely prepared for this interview...I mean I have kids and sometimes I’ll ask them a direct question ‘did you do this?’ and they will just talk forever trying to get me to forget what I asked...yeah, I have read plenty of Tweets and we should have held him harder to the fire’. Sarah Herring then doubles down on Kenney being verbose and she could never get from him what people wanted….’It’s not my responsibility at this point, its up to him to say what he wanted to say’. Etc. etc. etc. The fact is PokerNews is run like Entertainment News, it does not even approximate news when it comes to matter such as this and the programming is riddled with promotional and sponsor driven content. Once independent to a degree (founded by Tony G) it is now owned by Stars Group Canada which is owned by Flutter Entertainment (which of course owns PokerStars). This is a multi-billion dollar industry which deserves better reporting. The poker industry should be capable of reporting on a matter such as a large fraud via a news service that has some independence and integrity- not be dictated to by the (alleged) fraudster that he will talk to no one but his good friend. And, not for nothing, I am sure most have realized that after the initial brouhaha, this week I am not aware of anyone in the industry stridently calling for action to be implemented immediately regarding cheating. Business as usual for now. [/QUOTE]

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