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Update: Buzz Bissinger, ghostwriter of John Fetterman’s upcoming memoir, gave a brief comment to the NYT about the project. I would not characterize it as a glowing endorsement.

“Bissinger said he provided a template for the memoir, but that Fetterman delivered the content. ‘The book is John’s.’”

A month after my story for @defector.com, Crown confirms John Fetterman's political memoir is indeed still titled "Unfettered" and has a Nov. 11 release date. No mention of ghostwriter Buzz Bissinger—who I reported had a terrible time working with Fetterman—in initial book promo

Nobody Wants To Talk About John Fetterman And Buzz Bissinger's Pricey Memoir Project | Defector In January 2024, Semafor media reporter Max Tani published a small scoop: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and writer Buzz Bissinger (most famous for authoring Friday Night Lights) were working tog...

"However, I was told that in the process of having to work with Fetterman, Bissinger went from believing the Pennsylvania senator was a legitimate presidential candidate to believing he should no longer be in office at all" defector.com/nobody-wants...

Btw my book tour prediction is it won’t happen; Fetterman will do what Schumer did and blame unspecified “security concerns” (aka protestors) and maybe sprinkle in a few softball broadcast interviews

here's the "Unfettered" book description, which is described as "raw and visceral"
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769648...

A month after my story for @defector.com, Crown confirms John Fetterman's political memoir is indeed still titled "Unfettered" and has a Nov. 11 release date. No mention of ghostwriter Buzz Bissinger—who I reported had a terrible time working with Fetterman—in initial book promo

Whatever initial blowback Bongino gets from Trump will be easily mitigated by Bongino being like "unfortunately Mr. Trump -- who I still love and respect even though he may or may not be in the Epstein files that I very recently said do not exist -- is receiving bad intel from deep-state figures"

Bongino's 4 months of pretending to do work at the FBI + resigning in "protest" over Epstein disclosures is going to make him a lot of money — he can just say "you won't believe what the deep state is REALLY up to" and the RW media circuit will eat it up for years to come

ICYMI, I reported on John Fetterman's upcoming political memoir, ghostwritten by Buzz Bissinger, earlier this week:

🎁gift link: defector.com/nobody-wants...

Nobody Wants To Talk About John Fetterman And Buzz Bissinger's Pricey Memoir Project | Defector In January 2024, Semafor media reporter Max Tani published a small scoop: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and writer Buzz Bissinger (most famous for authoring Friday Night Lights) were working tog...

great reporting 🍿 defector.com/nobody-wants...

Nobody Wants To Talk About John Fetterman And Buzz Bissinger's Pricey Memoir Project | Defector In January 2024, Semafor media reporter Max Tani published a small scoop: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and writer Buzz Bissinger (most famous for authoring Friday Night Lights) were working tog...

My piece on John Fetterman memoir neither he nor his ghostwriter Buzz Bissinger want to discuss, feat:
—disappearing metadata
—mysterious ISBN
—alleged $1.2M advance
—Bissinger + Fetterman butting heads
—Bissinger losing faith in Fetterman
—Bissinger yelling at me lol

defector.com/nobody-wants...

Absolutely electric paragraph

“I called Bissinger from a friend’s phone, rather than my own. … Bissinger immediately answered. I barely finished identifying myself when he blared back at me, “NO, GOODBYE.” I think he was driving or something, because he didn’t hang up.“

Fascinating article, and bravo to whoever chose the picture, which makes the viewer want to reach for a flamethrower

This story is NUTS.

Nobody Wants To Talk About John Fetterman And Buzz Bissinger's Pricey Memoir Project | Defector In January 2024, Semafor media reporter Max Tani published a small scoop: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and writer Buzz Bissinger (most famous for authoring Friday Night Lights) were working tog...

"I was told that in the process of having to work with Fetterman, Bissinger went from believing the Pennsylvania senator was a legitimate presidential candidate to believing he should no longer be in office at all" defector.com/nobody-wants...

Nobody Wants To Talk About John Fetterman And Buzz Bissinger's Pricey Memoir Project | Defector In January 2024, Semafor media reporter Max Tani published a small scoop: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and writer Buzz Bissinger (most famous for authoring Friday Night Lights) were working tog...

For @defector.com, I tried to figure out what's going on with John Fetterman's political memoir, ghostwritten by Buzz Bissinger

It may not shock you to learn that Fetterman and Bissinger haven't gotten along (to put it politely), according to my sources

defector.com/nobody-wants...

It is amusing how owners of pro sports teams (Mark Cuban, Grousbeck, now Jeanie Buss) convince themselves that they’ll continue running the show *after* they sell their pro sports team for billions of dollars

Don't let Democrats rewrite Feinstein's infuriating final chapter SFGATE politics editor Alex Shultz writes on prominent Democrats obfuscating the charade that was California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s last term.

wrote this a year and a half ago after dianne feinstein died in office

www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

A sampling of headlines from the On SI content mill:

Horny Sports Blogging Makes A Bewildering Return To Sports Illustrated | Defector It has been more than 60 years since the first Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue hit newsstands, a moment in history that bound the business of sports journalism to the business of making sports fans ...

Reporting here took some unexpected turns: a former SI exec is now running a horny content mill on... SI.com. The content mill's posts are at times incomprehensible. Minute Media (which holds SI's publishing rights) decided on a peculiar PR strategy in response to my q's
defector.com/horny-sports...

this is really good and really depressing

lol this story rules

Horny Sports Blogging Makes A Bewildering Return To Sports Illustrated | Defector It has been more than 60 years since the first Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue hit newsstands, a moment in history that bound the business of sports journalism to the business of making sports fans ...

I bring you a bleak sports media deep-dive: bizarre horny posts, paid-per-click blogging, articles flagged as likely written by AI — all under SI.com's confusing digital divide, while SI's real journalists try to carry on and do good work

(🎁 gift link)

defector.com/horny-sports...

Horny Sports Blogging Makes A Bewildering Return To Sports Illustrated | Defector It has been more than 60 years since the first Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue hit newsstands, a moment in history that bound the business of sports journalism to the business of making sports fans…

Horny sports blogging makes a bewildering return to Sports Illustrated: defector.com/horny-sports...