Edward Wasserman

Kash Patel’s Acts of Service The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.

Can't beat sycophancy. Never mind merit... The brilliant rise of Kash Patel, the middling nobody who as FBI chief heads the world's mightiest investigative agency, shows convincingly that nowadays nothing succeeds like servility. "Managing upward" isn't even close. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Michael Wolff, Chronicler of Elites, Provided Epstein With Advice on Trump

In this series of cozy emails involving this accomplished reporter and the sex criminal, Epstein assures us that Trump had to have known what was going on. But the core question, which Epstein could have answered, remains unasked. Was Trump a participant? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

Influencers could learn a lot from traditional journalism about disclosing political funders Published in The Conversation: October 24, 2025

Influencers court danger from undisclosed conflicts of interest, and may find valuable lessons in conventional journalism practice. ewasserman.com/influencers-...

From Court to Congress to the Mideast, Trump Tallies His Wins

Why does the Times think we need a lead story about Trump's self-congratulatory view of his own dangerously misguided presidency? Like their report on the zealots who want him on Mt. Rushmore, this seems like a news org negotiating the terms of its own abjection. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/u...

Why did it take so long for the public to learn of Biden’s decline? Blame the media Failing to report on President Biden’s fitness only delayed the inevitable, leaving Kamala Harris with the impossible task of running a truncated campaign.

Blaming Joe Biden's inner circle for concealing his decline is an easy option for the journalists producing the latest wave of recriminations. The harder question, which they don't touch, is where was the White House press corps? www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services US president reverses threat to suspend security clearances and cancel federal contracts after meeting with chair of Paul, Weiss

This is freakishly wrong. Extortion, corruption, submission. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Where were Greenland & Panama & Canada during the campaign? Trump ignored foreign policy beyond grumbling about how much everybody owes us. Now, out of nowhere, reckless plans to strongarm and humiliate allies. If that was the plan, shouldn't people have voted on it? Why else do we have elections?

Gutsy for @anntelnaes.bsky.social to quit the @washingtonpost over rejection of this cartoon dinging tech/media moguls paying obeisance to Trump. But shame on Bezos and his flunkies at the paper. Her Substack post is in the thread 1/2