In a world where everything is declining, you have instances of digital outlets growing. But relatively speaking, they in no way begin to replace what was there before. Even the Huffington Post. I think maybe they have revenue of $60 million. That's as opposed to what's gone away: the Washington…
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Michael Wolff
Michael Blieden Wolff (born July 31, 1952) is an American jazz pianist. In the 1980s, he was bandleader for the Arsenio Hall Show. He was also the music director for jazz singer Nancy Wilson. Wolff was honored as a Steinway Artist and obtained a Broadcast Music, Inc. award. He has Tourette syndrome. He provided the score and co-produced The Tic Code (1999). He co-starred with his sons, Nat and Alex, in the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007-09), earning him a BMI Cable Award for producing the series' music. Wolff was the leader of the jazz band Impure Thoughts. Reconstructed as Wolff & Clark Expedition, it is a jazz-funk grou
You have things that are sprouts that are beginning to yield and employ people and beginning to do interesting things and become influential. But compared to what the business once was, it's nothing. We've now built a business on the basis of being almost completely staffed by young people who are…
The solipsism of the tech community sees Netflix as a satisfying disruption of the TV business. But that’s a striking inversion of what’s actually happening: TV is disrupting the Internet.
CNN and Fox News Channel first bootstrapped into media success by providing lower-cost news.
I will quote Steve Bannon—he’s lost it.
I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes. I am certainly and absolutely in every way comfortable with everything I’ve reported in this book.
100 percent of the people around [Donald Trump]…senior advisers, family members, every single one of them, questions his intelligence and fitness for office.
I will tell you the one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common: They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is, he has a need for immediate gratification. It is all about him.
My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point.
I think he has many acts left in him. I would put my money on Steve Bannon right now instead of Donald Trump.
Steve Bannon is responsible for Donald Trump's election. When Steve joined the campaign in August, they were finished—even Trump acknowledged they were finished.
This was an organization that was almost, I'd say, in a real sense shattered from the first day.
Each are trying to use their particular leverage and each has leverage with the president. Also, in order to increase their leverage with the president, they were trying to kill each other. In some nearly literal sense, kill each other. Certainly, Jared Kushner believed that Steve Bannon was…
I think the two fundamental issues were that Donald Trump doesn't read anything. Let me accent that—anything. Nothing. If you're working for the president of the United States, that's an odd position because how do you get information to him? That's already a major hurdle. But then there's the…
I am not a hit man. I’m someone who just found his way into this story of our time and just wanted to tell it as clearly as possible and with as much understanding as possible.
I certainly said what was ever necessary to get the story.
The media's holy grail is, as it's been for much of the campaign, about what will stick. Of the myriad likely damaging possibilities, which one will be so prima facie damaging (pay no attention to the many instances that many people already thought were, or would be) or so shocking and insulting to…
I would have been perfectly happy to have written a contrarian book about how interesting and potentially hopeful and novel Trump-as-president was. I would have written a positive Trump book. And I thought it would be a fun thing to do—an audacious way to look at the world. But then I got in there…
Well, you don't get the feeling that he has thought of anything other than himself at any given time. Certainly he was very open with me, accessible with me, and then he started to talk. Did he ever listen to me for one second? I never got that feeling. He just talks at you. ‘Blah blah blah blah…