[Ipg-smz] Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator, Has One Regret About Mass Shooting Tweet - The New York Times

[Gabe Goldberg]

After a gunman killed three people in Gilroy, Calif., Mr. Adams said 
witnesses could “set your price” on an app he invented. The cartoonist, 
no stranger to controversy, had found another.

Scott Adams, the 62-year-old creator of the Dilbert 
<https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Dilbert> comic strip, said he 
was flipping between CNN and Fox in his home 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43oV01a6qY8> in Pleasanton, Calif., on 
Sunday when it hit him: His moment had come.

In an interview on Tuesday, he explained that he had been planning to 
use a big news event to promote his online expert company, which has 
been struggling to find users.

A few hours earlier, a gunman had opened fire 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/us/gilroy-festival-shooting.html?module=inline> 
at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, 60 miles south of his home. He said he 
was frustrated by how little the witnesses interviewed by broadcast 
journalists seemed to know. His site could help, he thought.

And so, seated in the comfort of his home, with its indoor tennis court 
and three microwave ovens for optimum popcorn popping 
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-22/how-dilbert-s-scott-adams-got-hypnotized-by-trump>, 
he took action: “I dashed off a tweet and did not think about it.”

It did not go over well.

    If you were a witness to the #GilroyGarlicFestivalshooting
    <https://twitter.com/hashtag/GilroyGarlicFestivalshooting?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
    please sign on to Interface by WhenHub (free app) and you can set
    your price to take calls. Use keyword Gilroy. https://t.co/ilASD9kVAt

    — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 29, 2019
    <https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1155679797223182337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/business/media/scott-adams-dilbert-gilroy.html

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