Michelle Beadle responds after shot from media critic Tom Hoffarth
LA Daily News media critic Tom Hoffarth appeared to take an unsolicited shot at Michelle Beadle over Twitter Wednesday, and the ESPN personality responded with a solid comeback.
In sharing the news that USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism hired Willow Bay — a female media veteran — as its new director, Hoffarth decided to include Beadle for who knows what reason.
And somehow @MichelleDBeadle was passed over. http://t.co/86qR7ZTJVF
— Tom Hoffarth (@tomhoffarth) March 27, 2014
Beads only needed two minutes to work up this retort:
.@tomhoffarth bitterness is not a good look as we get older. Have a great Wednesday.
— Michelle Beadle (@MichelleDBeadle) March 27, 2014
And then she tacked this on for good measure:
.@tomhoffarth yikes. 1 mention of you, and my dm's blow up with the disdain you've earned from many in this business. I had no idea #poorguy
— Michelle Beadle (@MichelleDBeadle) March 27, 2014
Hoffarth is a media critic, so it’s natural for him to have many media figures dislike him. But we don’t get the shot at Beadle. Then again, it’s not like Hoffarth has needed a reason to go after female personalities in the past.