A reliable source has informed Hack Check that New York Times columnists Nick Kristof and Frank Bruni flew first class today on a Delta flight to Cleveland, where Republicans are holding their national convention this week.
It’s good to know that Kristof and Bruni are getting first class treatment while other, lesser Times staffers are wondering if they will be among the hundreds of employees expected to lose their jobs later this year.
The storied paper, which is funded by shady Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, a friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, is very concerned with billionaires trying to influence the media. But the Times does not appear too concerned with the expense accounts of their fancy columnists. Kristof and Bruni’s colleague Thomas Friedman admitted as much to the New Yorker in a 2009 profile of Slim, the Times benefactor.
Nick Kristof has a Davos briefcase, by the way.
