Here’s the link:

http://blogs.automobilemag.com/6401595/editors-soapbox/vile-gossip-detroit-is-already-making-cars-that-people-want/index.html

This seemed a bit askew, so I googled her and found she once did an ‘infomercial’ for GM back in 2006 that was pawned off as actual news.

Here’s the link.

http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/vnr41

Methinks Jean is a bit too cozy with GM to give her readers an unvarnished opinion of the state of affairs in Detroit. I do, however, appreciate Jamie Kitman’s frank, funny, and thought-provoking column in her magazine’s pages.

+1

Jean comes from family of writers. Her late father, Robert Lienert, was a copy editor at the Detroit Free Press and later became the editor of Automotive News. Her brother is also some sort of writer/reporter who has written about the automotive industry. Family connections help.

Prior to “Car and Driver” and the taxi driver gig she also worked as some sort of test driver for Chrysler. In her early years at CD she would wax eloquent about what wonderful handling cars the Omni 024/Horizon TC3 were and I knew she’d drunk the Detroit Kool-Aid.

Detroit-Iron, you should give Automobile another shot. Ever since Gavin Conway (a Brit) took over, the writing has gotten edgier, the Editor’s retorts have gotten snarkier, and the articles have gotten more diverse (the unwritten rules to buying a Ferrari, exploring the festival surrounding the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring, working on a Lambo assembly line … er, station, etc.). Plus, they hired Ezra Dyer full time.

Well there’s nothing I like more than discussing art and design with someone who clearly is out of her depths…she didn’t even have the manners to stop chewing her gum while she was talking to us.

She came across as one of those people who had never worked in the car industry and sounded like she believed every word of every press release ever written without a single independent thought in her head…and they wonder why print media died?

The scarf is in case she has to strangle a hooker.

Poor Jean. Back in the day (late ’70s or early ’80s) when David E. Davis gave her her first real writing job at “Car and Driver” he had his wife go shopping with Jean to help her find some clothes that were more professional and to give Jean makeup tips. (Obviously they didn’t take.) Davis later brought Jean with him when he started “Automobile Magazine.”

Jean seems to have been involved in the coup that kicked David E. Davis out of “Automobile Magazine” and led to Jean’s replacing David at the helm of the magazine for several years. She did manage to get remarried so there’s no need for her to “dress up” anymore, anyway.

With no more Davis family influence, Jean has returned to looking like the former schlubby taxi driver she was before Davis hired her. Meow!

but she was right