The journalist was one of those journalists who had pestered Professor Mia during the Gate. He also suffered at the hand of Professor Mia.
He had come here to take revenge on Professor Mia. Though it was not possible to fight Professor Mia with his fist, at least he could drag her name down with his news article.
He could have easily done it if he had the cooperation of Zero who is the personal student of Professor Mia. He had many ways to twist the news article into making Professor Mia look evil.
Even if Zero would not say directly that he could have conned him into admitting that Professor Mia is a terrible person rather than a genius. But he had not expected that Zero would not even want to talk to him.
Many people, especially the young, would be extremely happy to get to be in the news. Who would say no to fame?
Moreover, they were from one of the greatest new channels in Edolas, not to mention that Titan Storm was backing them up.