Ezra Klein’s New Republic Profile Gets Very Awkward When The Media Comes Up
Posted in: Today's ChiliWashington Post writer/Bloomberg columnist/MSNBC contributor Ezra Klein is one of the stars of the media world — but that doesn’t mean that being profiled doesn’t drive him crazy.
That’s what Julia Ioffe found out when she tagged along with Klein for a story in the latest issue of The New Republic. The article is mostly friendly, and features a series of pictures of a laughing, smiling Klein. It traces the by-now-familiar story of Klein’s speedy rise through the ranks, as well as his influence in media and political circles. (Even President Obama is interested in what he thinks, a White House official tells Ioffe.)
Towards the end of the profile, though, things take an awkward turn. Klein, Ioffe writes, told her that she could not speak to anyone in his family, and warned her that any emails she saw of his were off the record. He also said that he was intensely worried that she would twist his words and make him look bad:
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