On Sunday, The Salt Lake Tribune — owned by the same parent company as the other well-known Utah site, Deseret News — chose to attack conservative data guru Data Republican by wading into her personal life and doxxing her husband, a private citizen and co-owner of a Salt Lake City distillery.
Instead of explaining how Data Republican (who’s real name is Jennica Pounds) rose to prominence on social media, had tremendous personal success as a deaf Utahan, and found seemingly endless examples of government waste, The Tribune’s Brock Marchant chose to smear Pounds’s work, dox her husband, and reveal his occupation:
[S]he also co-owns Spirits of the Wasatch Distillery in Salt Lake City with her husband, a former officer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as reported in a Feb. 15 article by Utah Stories that profiles the…
