What a robust index of the brokenness of our culture. Here was an off the record meeting with journalists—Arianna was there! and top media critic Michael Wolff (described accurately in 2004 as fixated on culture, style, buzz, and money, money, money). There, “one of the top deal guys in the Valley, in the presence of his boss, Ubers CEO, outlined the notion of spending “a million dollars” to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists. That team could, he said, help Uber fight back against the press — they’d look into “your personal lives, your families, and give the media a taste of its own medicine--specificying a female Uber critic (At the Waverly Inn dinner, it was suggested that a plan like the one Michael floated could become a problem for Uber. Michael responded: Nobody would know it was us.”) Luckily one reporter didnt hear the off the record ground rules. But wtf that all the other journalists respected it?
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:00:22 +0000
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