Media

Elon Musk knows something Jeff Bezos doesn’t. Each has had turns as the world’s richest man, and both are media overlords. But whereas Musk’s purchase of Twitter arguably won a presidential election and briefly put the fate of the United States federal government in Musk’s hands, Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post has bought him nothing but grief. No election victories, no sway in Washington, just the hatred of the journalists he subsidizes to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Media power in the 21st century is about platforms, not publications. Bezos shouldn’t have needed Musk to teach him this: the whole strategy behind the business that made him rich, Amazon.com,

Trump Derangement Syndrome has become horribly over-diagnosed. Now, anyone who expresses doubts about his wondrous abilities – or just fails to repeat the White House’s preferred talking points – risks being branded a “TDS” sufferer. It’s boring. Still, there remains a large faction of elite journalists, social-media influencers and political actors who loathe Donald Trump with a pathological intensity and who feel their mission in life must be to undermine him by whatever means necessary. They have spent the last decade condemning Trump and his supporters as conspiracy loons even as they leap from one dark theory to the next – Trump is a Russian asset! A closet Nazi! An

The White House communications director saves his harshest vitriol for the press

A deceptive splicing of clips in a documentary made it look like the President had ordered the storming of the Capitol

‘He has to be, by a country mile, the most accessible president in the history of the presidency’

Trump hates feeling led and nurses a number of understandable grudges over how he’s been treated these past 10 years

The least accurate polls are getting the most airtime

Journalists are cashing in on books that glaze over their roles

Don’t be surprised if, come 2032, she tries to become the first woman to break the glass ceiling. And then sings about it