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Edward Wasserman

@ewass.bsky.social
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Media ethicist, professor of journalism & former dean, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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Edward Wasserman @ewass.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
No surprise that somebody surrounded by sycophants can't stomach honest questioning, but the real danger of Trump's "quiet piggy" impertinence is the direct challenge it poses to the confrontation that's at the core of government accountability. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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Trump’s ‘quiet, piggy’ jab at a female reporter is much more than a personal insult
OPINION: The remark was an expression of disdain meant to undermine a basic practice that lies at the core of the relationship between the public and the powerful in a democracy.
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Edward Wasserman @ewass.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Discarding the language of neutral reportage,The NY Times produced an exceptionally powerful account of Trump's appalling anti-Somali tantrum. Other media should view this abandonment of convention as an invitation to re-examine their own timid practices. It's time. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
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Edward Wasserman @ewass.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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...
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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.
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Edward Wasserman @ewass.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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Michael Wolff, Chronicler of Elites, Provided Epstein With Advice on Trump
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Edward Wasserman @ewass.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Influencers court danger from undisclosed conflicts of interest, and may find valuable lessons in conventional journalism practice. ewasserman.com/influencers-...
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Influencers could learn a lot from traditional journalism about disclosing political funders
Published in The Conversation: October 24, 2025
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Edward Wasserman @ewass.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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...
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From Court to Congress to the Mideast, Trump Tallies His Wins
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Edward Wasserman @ewass.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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...
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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.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is freakishly wrong. Extortion, corruption, submission. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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
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Edward Wasserman @ewass.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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?
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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
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