Los Angeles Times columnist Virginia Heffernan said that Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury,” despite widespread denouncements and the author himself calling it “rushed,” does not need to be fact-checked. Wolff “has been faulted for making stuff up,” Heffernan wrote, but she wants to believe the whole book — “because, for now, this stuff is […]
The recent media frenzy of Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire and Fury,” and his take on the inner White House workings has exposed some blatant biases. Some of the claims in the book have proven to be false, such as when Wolff wrote that then-candidate Donald Trump did not know who former Speaker of the House […]
NBC News correspondent Katy Tur, who was a frequent target of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, urged caution about Michael Wolff’s controversial new book on the Trump White House. A note of caution on Fire and Fury pic.twitter.com/o9OzV7ltWm — Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) January 3, 2018 This isn’t the first time Wolff has been […]
Kellyanne Conway attended a First Amendment event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. She had a one-on-one interview with the Washington Post’s Michael Wolff, who asked her to give a grade (A-F) on the press so far in Trump’s presidency. What was her response? “Incomplete.” .@MichaelWolffNYC asks @KellyannePolls to grade the press from A-F. She […]
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway brushed aside journalist Michael Wolff’s attempt to label her as the “Darkness” during a forum at the Newseum on Wednesday morning. The event, titled “The President and the Press: The First Amendment in the First 100 Days,” brought together an assortment of journalists and Trump administration officials, including Conway […]
Even CNN highlighted a columnist named Michael Wolff who called out their own Brian Stelter (host of the CNN show “Reliable Sources”) and the rest of the journalism field for panicking over every move that the Trump White House makes: The Hollywood Reporter columnist and Newsweek writer told CNN’s Brian Stelter on “Reliable Sources” Sunday […]
NBC News, which long dominated the ratings on both weekdays and Sunday mornings, as well as weeknights, has seen a large erosion in those ratings over the last couple of years. It has fallen behind the competition in the all-important A25-54 demographic, as shown by the above chart from Michael Wolff in The Hollywood Reporter. Wolff […]