This is a good demonstration of the worst use of anonymous sources -- not to provide sensitive and valuable information, but to insult people with no consequences. Yahoo News is circulating a report from Tom Porter of the dying husk of a magazine called Newsweek about how President Trump announced his daughter Ivanka would had the U.S. delegation at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in southern India in November. Now, for comment, an anonymous insult comic:
Bobby Gosh [sic], editor of the Hindustan Times tweeted that an Indian diplomat, whose name he didn't reveal, remarked on Ivanka: "We regard Ivanka Trump the way we do half-wit Saudi princes. It's in our national interest to flatter them.”
Gosh added: “Yes, it is a shame that the U.S. should be compared to a kingdom. But that is America's shame, not Modi's, or India's.”
That would be Aparisim "Bobby" Ghosh, formerly a foreign correspondent for the other slightly less dead news magazine known as Time. Now imagine Ghosh using an anonymous source to mock Chelsea Clinton as a "half-wit" princess, and imagine whether Yahoo or Newsweek would consider that professional journalism.
Porter wrapped up the story by asserting that last month, "the former model was criticized for sitting in for her father at an official G20 function in Hamburg, Germany....Ethics experts have accused Trump of nepotism for appointing his daughter to a White House role. However Trump spokesman Jason Miller has claimed that the appointment is above reproach since Ivanka is unpaid for her advisory role."
