Edward Wasserman

I just published Trump’s ‘quiet, piggy’ jab at a female reporter is much more than a personal insult ewasserman.com/trumps-quiet-p…

I just published Influencers could learn a lot from traditional journalism about disclosing political funders ewasserman.com/influencers-co…

Press coverage of Trump’s tariffs understates the insanity     presswatchers.org/2025/03/covera… One CNBC analyst has spoken the truth. Will other journalists follow?

@davidfolkenflik Through the prohibited presidential endorsement and now the tribute money, Bezos has made it clear that sucking up is house policy. Why shouldn't his paper fire a salaried influencer who didn't read the memo?

My interview w Pulitzer winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes about her resignation from WaPo over killed sketch on tech titans, including Bezos “They own a newspaper and they have an obligation, frankly, to protect the free press.” npr.org/2025/01/04/nx-…

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

KAITLAN COLLINS: So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted? JD VANCE: Yes COLLINS: Ok, I'm just checking, because you helped raise money for people who did so on January 6. (May 2024) @atrupar

Worst press failure in a generation? The media's inattention to Biden's decline made his successor a longshot with the impossible job of spackling together a winning presidential campaign in 15 weeks. If Trump returns thank the White House press corps. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

The media's failure to expose Biden's deteriorating capacities may be the most spectacular press failure since WMD. If the Dems now lose, it may be even more consequential. wsj.com/politics/elect…

When Biden steps away from the race he must also step down as president. Running is the prez's biggest job, and he can't do it. Harris must run as an incumbent, with stature equivalent to Trump's, both claiming the administration's wins and running as an independent change agent.

These boys of the Right sure love their iconography.

@ezraklein For this to work, Biden must not just quit the race but resign the presidency: Kamala must run as an incumbent. The moment she's Madame President the atmospherics are transformed, she's both the leader of a successful administration and the change agent the electorate longs for.

Where things stand: 1. Top Dems who believed even a week ago Biden would stay now believe he’ll go. 2. House and Senate Dems have lost faith in his ability to win and there’s no way to win them back. His calls and interviews have hurt him badly. Confirmed debate wasn't a one-off. 3. Donors are also gone. Biden may well not have the money to run a real campaign against Trump if he stays in. Money will go downballot. 4. Biden is thinking things over in a way he wasn’t before and the view is he needs time to process and consider. 5. If Biden digs in after the weekend, public pressure from Dems will increase. Ugly in a way no one wants. But a lot of grim determination. Also a growing sense that if Biden stays in, this will come to be seen as the kind of political catastrophe you don't want to later be seen as silent in. 6. The moment Biden bows out, he will be treated as a hero among Democrats — a statesman who made the kind of country and party-first decision that Trump never would. People get that this is hard. He's being asked to do something very few leaders do. 7. Uniting around Kamala Harris feels a lot likelier than an open convention, much as I’ve supported the latter. This is grueling enough. Few Democrats have the stomach for another hard thing. And time is very short now. 8. Many thought RNC would help Biden by changing the subject. Instead, seeing a united Republican Party has focused Dems. They've realized they can't rely on Trump just to lose this. 9. Democratic Party is acting like an…actual party? Quite a thing to watch.

"Channel 4 News can reveal that Thomas Crooks's, [the shooter's] father, the owner of the rifle that was used to shoot at Donald Trump, was held on a database and profiled by the former president's election campaign and identified by them as a strong Republican supporter, gun owner and hunter. The information was compiled as part of a secret Republican project to gather data on millions of gun owners across America and use it to target pro-gun messages in the run up to the 2016 election...We know they profiled them using secret computer models to identify likely gun owners and enthusiasts, and Mr. Crooks scored very highly, 0.99 out of 1 for being a gun owner and 0.95 out of one 1 being a hunter. In fact, out of more than 19,000 people in Bethel Park who were profiled, Mr. Crooks was in the top 20 and the database classified him as a strong GOP or Republican voter."

Just noting that NBC’s telecast of its exclusive, apparently all-important interview with President Biden was immediately preceded by an episode of…”American Ninja Warrior.” Because….well, I guess it was on the schedule?

Investors bought nearly 15% of homes sold in the first three months of 2024 — the highest share on record. A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed is a lack of supply — and Wall Street sinking its teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.

Housing costs are now the biggest driver of inflation. Here's one thing that's keeping them high.

@dankennedy_nu I understand the dismay over Biden's performance. But I can't get over the lunacy of looking at the behavior of the two men, deciding that of the two, one plainly proved he's not fit to run, and then concluding it's Biden. Wasn't anybody listening to Trump?

The Boston Globe calls on President Biden to end his campaign. dankennedy.net/2024/07/03/the…

New at Media Nation: Kudos to The Philly Inquirer for a brilliant piece of performance art — but it doesn't answer our fears that Biden can't beat the authoritarian menace that Trump embodies. dankennedy.net/2024/06/30/kud…

People are always trying to leave @politico. Still, it's shocking to see @jackshafer, one of the great voices in media criticism, moving on. I hope he lands in a good place where his voice will continue to be heard. semafor.com/article/06/25/…

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