that was the super bowl ad featuring another bezos property, the washington post. sánchez says he got the inquirer to delay the expose for months by harmless photo of sister that ran in us weekly, the company said it published when the story was ready. bezos said that the post aggressive reporting on the saudi government s involvement in the brutal murder of post contributor jamal khashoggi may have led the country to hack his phone, ami published a magazine filled with prosaudi propaganda, the saudis say they were unfair of. twun inquirer story hit sánchez suggested a new plan. in terms of first public area they would go out for burgers wearing jeans and baseball caps and make it very low key and show the world that they re happy together. people magazine was tipped off for a photo of the new york outing but the couple last month made an extremely public
absolutely, he said that he didn t think the amazon pr team was equipped to handle this kind of story. would jeff and lauren still married to spouses, michael sánchez said he advised them to lay low but as with lauren sánchez near bezos when the company launched rocket, the couple didn t always take his advice. i was definitely annoyed because the risk that they were taking made everything much more difficult in terms of keeping things contained. did it lead to any exposure or to any tab lid inquiry? yes, multiple tabloids were onto the story and so the plan was if they had credible information we would offer them the exclusive in terms of the super bowl commercial and the documentary to kind of get them off of the track.
it was without question the biggest tabloid scandal in years, jeff bezos having affair that would ultimately cost half of his fortune and how the national inquirer broke the story remains under investigation, here is my report. federal prosecutors are escalating probe into two seriousalses stemming from the national inquirer disclosure of affair between amazon founder jeff bezos and los angeles tv personality lauren sánchez, one, charge by bezos that parent company american media inc try today blackmail to drop inquiry on how they obtained intimate texts which the company has strongly denied, bezos belief that the saudi government obtained photos and texts by illegally getting access to his phone, claim that ami has called false and has also been denied by the saudi regime.
should pull their readers for the next headline and that s where we are. i think you said it really well, you called the folks that attacked the new york times on twitter that day, twitter mob and it really was, you know, headline by anarchy. it was a very unfortunate, i think, event for the new york times which is ironic about it that president trump has been calling the new york times fake for years, liberals are helping him fulfill- we are used to it from the right, growing concerns from the bernie, bernie sanders campaign says it s getting unfair coverage and all that and chief complaints that the media aren t tough enough on donald trump and don t call him a liar and racist in every story. there s problem with coverage of the left where the media tend to favor candidates over others, that s legitimate, this is about the issue that a lot of people on the left view the new york times not as newspaper that reports facts but as news letter
appearance, 3 rows behind the royals in wimbledon. the new york post reporter that bezos met lauren s parents, mother was on vacation and didn t make the reported rendezvous. through the highest of highs and lowest of lows i ve always been there to do what she needs and to protect her when she needs protection. we will keep you posted on the federal investigation and the coverage of this story, that s it for this edition of media buzz, i m howard kurtz, check out my podcast if you have some few moments, media buzz meter where we kick around today s hottest stories and you can subscribe at apple itunes or fox news podcast.com, we hope you like facebook page, daily columns original videos for the web and i m howard kurtz on twitter, i get off the air and take phone out and see what