WaPo editor suggests NYT-"Syria-backchannel"-claim was spread by Kushner AlliesSyria update:
AP source: Kushner back channel with Russia involved Syria
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/05/27/us/politics/ap-us-trump-russia-probe-the-latest.html-->
Slate journo defends hypothetical sharing of Kushner spin.
https://twitter.com/saletan/status/868513510690566144Scott Wilson, national editor of the WaPo, reacts through criticizing sharing it without identifying the agenda:
Wait, how do we known it's Kushner's account? The sourcing is "people familiar with the meeting." White House? Intel? Kushner lawyer?
https://twitter.com/PostScottWilson/status/868515339851759618Why not ID them as such? Why "people" not allow them to be ID's as such? Harder to track lies back that way, especially if people in WH.
https://twitter.com/PostScottWilson/status/868526902356701185We talked to these "people" too. We would not publish their account unless we could signal they were speaking for Kushner. They refused.https://twitter.com/PostScottWilson/status/868523802854117377This is the point. By not ID'ing in whose water these "people" are carrying, @nyt allowing readers to think they are disinterested parties.
https://twitter.com/PostScottWilson/status/868517233840017411This claim from a Post editor is big: NYT sources who said back-channel was about Syria were Kushner affiliates/toadies
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/868597677025525761