*Tory Lanez’s team hit up Instagram Thursday to call out longtime journalist Meghann Cuniff and her coverage of the Megan Thee Stallion shooting trial.
As Complex reports, a post shared via the rapper’s IG Stories describes Cuniff’s reporting as “negative and extremely biased.”
“With all due respect…Please disregard anything Meghann Cuniff reports on Tory Lanez. Her objective, perspective/narrative has always been negative and extremely biased towards him … if there is an update on tory it will come from this page first. If it doesn’t come from this page it’s not real,” read the post, which was credited to “The Umbrella.”
Lanez’s team failed to provide examples of Cuniff’s allegedly biased reporting.
Cuniff issued a response on Twitter, simply stating, “Wish he’d @’d me or at least spelled my name correctly ????????.”
The attacks on @meghanncuniff from Lanez and his supporters stay absurd, largely launched by people who don’t understand a thing about courts or journalism.
There’s no bias. We both cover hundreds of cases a year. Literally don’t have time to have an opinion about defendants. https://t.co/hcujOZGrIi
— James Queally (@JamesQueallyLAT) July 13, 2023
As Complex reports, the statement from Tory’s team was issued a day after Cuniff published an article titled “New attorney plans to seek Tory Lanez’s release from jail over Megan Thee Stallion shooting.” It featured attorney Ronda Renee Dixon, whose motion to join Lanez’s legal team was rejected by the judge.
“These guys are just taking advantage of [Lanez],” Dixon told Cuniff. “They’ve had him sign powers of attorneys. They’re acting on his behalf. … They’re not really asking him what he wants.”
Dixon claimed she recently met with Lanez and described him as “totally despondent.”
“His eyes were black,” Dixon said. “He told me he wanted to go to state prison. I said, ‘You want to go to state prison? Why?’ He said, ‘At least I’ll be able to go out in the yard and talk to people. That upset me. I don’t think he’s guilty.”
Late last year, Lanez was found guilty in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case and ultimately convicted of three charges: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a concealed and loaded firearm in a vehicle, and discharge of a firearm with gross negligence.
The rapper’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for August.
READ MORE: Los Angeles Judge Denies Tory Lanez’s Motion for New Trial
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