Hasan says it probably would have been better to not do the Axios interview Points out journalists like Axios's Alex Thompson are all aiming to be the interview that takes him down "Probably better if I just didn't do the interview at all..certainly would have been better if I didn't say pound for pound. Sometimes it's fine even if things are correct, perhaps not everyone can say them..perhaps someone with a name like Hasan who is being aggressively slammed into the campaign of a guy who's named Abdul should not be saying those things regardless I'm too hard headed and too stubborn to a fault, especially when it comes to analysis and perspective" "The media environment is unfair, we know that already..the PR crisis management mentality..if I had a publicist..would be to never do an interview like that at all..to never do any interviews in general, not even positive ones bc God forbid they take something I'm saying out of context..and then use it against the Abdul race..it's not fair, but we don't live in a fair world..for every one pearl clutching tweet about this, there are about 3 who ask, is this wrong? That's important" "Every journalist in the media is looking for the interview that takes a person down, and considering that I've become public enemy number 1..there are going to be more contentious interviews going forward..Alex Thompson came up to the mantle and he swung, I don't think that it is as devastating as he thinks this is”