“So when you make the choice to use him as your source, then your entire product suffers because of lack of credibility from someone who’s never, ever worked in the business, who doesn’t really know, who has only heard about certain things, and only reported what he wanted to report, because of personal bias one way or the other. So that’s all …. that’s all. The human beings? Got no problem with them. The show itself I think went from a place of an investigative show to a place of a ‘Gotcha!’ show, and, ‘Let’s see who we can tear apart, dead or alive with rumor and innuendo.”

In terms of the most egregious examples of what he was talking about, Prichard pointed to three specific “DSOTR” episodes.

“The Plane Ride from Hell, where they took several different plane rides and presented them as one,” Prichard said. “Again, not fair in narrative they were warned about. That one they were warned about. Owen Hart’s tragic [death] … there’s two right there. It’s been a few, it’s really been a few. Gino [Hernandez] may have been one … it’s just … that may be nothing more than an old man yelling at clouds. But I’m an old man, and I have a right to yell at clouds.”

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