Update: the tabloid trash tiff that keeps giving ...

The pond caught up with Carrie Fellner's latest contribution to the saga, Man denies trying to provoke staff in ‘undercover’ Daily Telegraph stunt

Those troubled by the soft paywall can find it in full at the archive.

The pond vaguely recollects sundry demands and threats regarding retractions and apologies, but rather than rehash the whole sorry saga, the pond will pick up the story down the page ...

...“Our client agreed that there should be peace on both sides, to which the female staffer replied, ‘No, you don’t’,” the man’s lawyer said.
The man said he continued to be abused and berated by the staffers until the group was finally able to leave the scene.
The lawyer said her client was “extremely offended” at the female staffer’s suggestions he was bringing a conflict from overseas to Australia.
“Our client agreed to participate in the social experiment given the rising antisemitism presently being experienced by Australians,” the lawyer said.

It was a social experiment? Oh lawdy lawdy ...

That the best you got? That's hitting them with the big shot? Keep digging ... that's always the best way to get out of a hole ...

“These sorts of experiments are highly effective in showcasing forms of discrimination both here and overseas.”
The lawyer demanded Cairo Takeaway delete their social media posts about the matter, make an unequivocal apology and issue a public retraction of their claims, threatening to take defamation action against them if they failed to do so.
It was sent as an internal Telegraph document emerged on Friday, pitching the story as an “undercover operation” where a Jewish man would “see what it’s like being Jewish in Sydney”.
“Will secretly film with his video glasses,” said the Telegraph’s “topic plan” document, first published by Crikey but verified by this masthead.

Verified by two rags? 

So the trolling was planned...

“The aim is to walk down main streets in Newtown, Blacktown, Bankstown, Arncliffe (might not do arncliffe it the worst perhaps) and film peopls [sic] reactions to this Jewish man in their neighbourhood.
“Needs discreet photos of the guy walking down these streets to accompany the yarn.”

That's not a social experiment. That's rabble rousing and shit stirring.

At this point the behind the scenes villain made an appearance ...

Daily Telegraph editor Ben English, pictured at last year’s Bradfield Oration, admitted the newspaper’s approach could have been better handled. Credit:Rhett Wyman

By golly looks like a gherkin, acts like a gherkin caught out ...

The Telegraph has not published any articles about the altercation at Cairo.

But Ben did a little X'ing... and naturally Crikey was keen to share in the reflected glory ...

That's about as close to an apology as you'll get from a tabloid troll ...

"Our approach could have been better handled."

You don't say Sherlock; maybe you should have told the lawyer that too ...

Back to Carrie, for that closing shot of the hand coming out of the grave, or at least a few last pars ...

Editor Ben English said that, like other media, the outlet had been reporting on the rise of antisemitism and investigating how it is affecting the daily lives of Jewish people in Sydney.
“The Telegraph never intended to provoke an incident at the Cairo Takeaway restaurant in Enmore, which was one of multiple venues across Sydney we visited, nor to report that its staff are antisemitic,” he said.
“The Daily Telegraph acknowledges our approach could have been better handled.”
Officers from the Inner West Police Area Command investigated a complaint that a staff member had been intimidated at the restaurant but did not identify any criminal offences.

Yep, been here so many times before ...

What a desperate, pathetic, low life, low rent rag ...