The Jared bubble

[demmiblue]

What my 18 months as Jared Kushner’s first editor taught me about the Trump family and the press

Source: Columbia Journalism Review

“You can’t say ‘hit job’ in here.”

I was six months into my tenure as the editor of the New York Observer, and I was schooling my publisher, Jared Kushner, on why ordering up a slam of someone who had crossed his family in business didn’t pass the journalistic smell test.

Kushner, in an earlier meeting, had asked for a hit piece on an official at Bank of America, and was now in my office to check on how the story was coming together. I had spent the previous weeks trying to avoid the subject with him, knowing full well that the Observer was never going to pursue a story about an anonymous banker whose only sin was running afoul of the Kushner family.

But he was pressing the issue. Finally, in that office meeting in the spring of 2010, I told him the piece was not going to happen, that talk of a “hit job” was a textbook definition of malice, and that I considered the issue closed.

Kushner, then a 28-year-old journalism novice who had so far been deferential to my news judgment, pursed his lips, paused a beat, and ended the conversation.

Read more: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/cjr-kyle-pope-jared-kushner-observer.php

[democratisphere]

1. These people are pure evil.

Pure evil is destroying our democracy.

[Nitram]

2. These people are not "destroying our democracy." They are TRYING to destroy or democracy, and they

have been blocked, obstructed at every turn. After all the indictments are in, you will see our democracy intact, live and well, kicking fascist butt.

[democratisphere]

3. Standing by for Pardons #1 and #2.

We have illegitimate him, not her!

[Nitram]

4. Giving a pardon to obstruct justice is a crime. Dump would just be digging the hole he's in

deeper. Pardoning Sheriff Arpaio was wrong, but it didn't rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.

[democratisphere]

5. Agreed. drumpf is a desperado. Anything is possible with this guy.

[Nitram]

6. A desperado sitting on his horse facing the wrong way, his bandana tied around his dick instead of

his face.