Two financial journalists got into a Twitter war on Thursday over the newsworthiness of Mitt Romney-related financial documents released by Gawker.
Just an hour and a half after the site published hundreds of pages of leaked documents tied to the Republican presidential candidate, Fortune senior editor Dan Primack dismissed the documents as "worthless," arguing that many of the revelations had been previously disclosed.
Heidi Moore, the New York bureau chief for Marketplace, shot back on Twitter:
Check out the Twitter exchange that followed:
@moorehn Let's start with: Your biggest error is...
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 23, 2012
@moorehn The existence of fund docs isn't news. What's in them could be news except, in this case, it isn't
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 23, 2012
@moorehn Is there anything in here that people, were they interested, couldn't find via a google search of PE fund structures?
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 23, 2012
@moorehn agreed on latter point, although Mitt's specific tax arrangements aren't in here.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 23, 2012
@moorehn And I've written ad nausea about PE fund structures vis-a-vis Romney and Bain. These docs didn't provide new info.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 23, 2012
@moorehn Ok, so I could have posted docs (not really, mine had watermarks) and then told readers that there was nothing interesting to see
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 23, 2012
@moorehn fair enuff.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 23, 2012
@moorehn see here: http://t.co/0k9SZf7X
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) August 23, 2012
Even other finance reporters joined the fray:
Team @danprimack RT @kevinroose: Team @moorehn on this one.
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) August 23, 2012
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