NY Observer Editor Helped Trump With AIPAC Speech
We'll take Conflict of Interest for $100, Alex.
One would think this scenario provides one of the more clearly defined examples of a conflict of interest to avoid: Say you happen to be Ken Kurson, the editor of the New York Observer. Say that you’re handed a draft copy of a speech that belongs to a current presidential candidate, Donald Trump, for example, who plans to deliver this speech at the AIPAC conference. Say that you’re given this speech not for reporting purposes, but rather, for your input.
What, as the editor of a paper that covers politics, do you do?
Since it was revealed in Gabriel Sherman‘s New York magazine profile of Donald Trump that Kurson went with the providing-input-and-not-disclosing-it option, the Observer has decided to try something different from now on.
From senior politics editor Jill Jorgensen, in a statement provided to the Huffington Post:
A recent report about Observer Editor Ken Kurson’s input on a speech delivered by Donald...
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