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Tom Scocca, a senior editor and columnist at The New York Observer, on why the the purchase of that newspaper by Jared Kushner, son of disgraced real estate mogul and convicted tax evader Charles Kushner, isn't so bad:

“Every pile of money that is enough to buy a newspaper is disturbing if you look closely enough at it,” he said. “But I don’t think he has any reason or need to protect the existing press barons from scrutiny. This is an exciting move.”

I love that line: "Every pile of money that is enough to buy a newspaper is disturbing if you look closely enough at it."

Indeed.

The same could be said for any pile of money that is enough to buy a media company, an oil company, a baseball team, a software company...