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Paul Farhi

@farhip.bsky.social
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Ex-WashPost. Freelance writer (mostly about the news media but other stuff, too). Pleased to meet ya.

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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The governor vs. the media baron: The increasingly nasty feud between rising political star Wes Moore (D-Md.) and David Smith, proprietor of the @baltimoresun and chairman of the Sinclair TV empire. Latest by me for @NYMag: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Wes Moore’s Media War
An escalating feud with the Baltimore Sun’s conservative owner could have 2028 repercussions.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“Mr. Didn’t Fix It:” My story for @Washingtonian’s April issue about Will Lewis’ disastrous tenure as publisher and CEO of the @washingtonpost. How it began and how it all went so wrong. washingtonian.com/2026/03/19/w...
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Once a surefire path to the bestseller list, books about Trump have lately been sputtering. Why? Latest by me for @theatlantic, about the Trump book bust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Books Aren’t Selling Anymore
A decade into the Trump era, readers who were once hungry to learn about the man seem to have had their fill.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Trump's role in the Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery sale is straight out of Viktor Orban’s playbook. Latest by me (for MSNow.com). www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Trump's role in the Warner Bros. Discovery sale and other media deals is straight out of Viktor Orban's playbook
Paul Farhi: U.S. presidents don’t normally get directly “involved” in who buys what in the media.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
There’s something obvious and also not-so-obvious about mega-scoops like this. The obvious: Despite everything, the MSM still matters. A lot.  Thread time:
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Maryland, 11/6/25.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Lawsuits. Executive action. A compliant Congress and regulatory bureaucracy. Trump’s campaign to crush the media is succeeding. Latest by me for @TheAtlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump’s Campaign to Crush the Media
The president has launched a frontal assault on the journalism business. So far, he’s winning.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
By one estimate, one in 10 public radio stations could go dark under Trump’s plan to eliminate federal funding of public broadcasting. Trump’s Public Radio Cuts Could Mean Calamity for Local Outlets. Latest by me for Medill’s Local News Initiative localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/0...
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Trump’s Public Radio Cuts Could Mean Calamity for Local Outlets
As Hurricane Helene ravaged the mountain communities of western North Carolina last fall, Blue Ridge Public Radio remained a beacon in the storm.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The most revealing part of this exchange was the reply: “I wish you did.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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A Revealing Joke in the Oval Office About Getting in Trump’s Good Graces
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Despite MAGA Media’s Teacher’s Pet Status, It’s the Old Guard Churning Out Trump Scoops. Latest by me for Vanity Fair: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
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Despite MAGA Media’s Teacher’s Pet Status, It’s the Old Guard Churning Out Trump Scoops
Top editors from The Wall Street Journal, Axios, and Politico speak with VF about holding Donald Trump’s administration accountable in these nearly 100 days. What’s essential, says the Times’ Carolyn ...
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Much to chew on here. But Ukraine’s soldiers aren’t dying for “no reason.” They’re dying to defend their country from invaders who want to kill them and their families, destroy their culture, erase their history and take over their country.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Year-over-year growth (unique visitors), Nov. 2024 vs Nov. 2023: —Truth Social, 4.250 million, +39 percent. —Bluesky, 5.352 million, +1,048 percent   Source: TheRighting.com, based on ComScore data.
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theRighting – Alerting Mainstream Audiences to Today’s Headlines from the Right
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Unaddressed question in ABC-Trump settlement: If ABC (Disney) felt it had to capitulate, why not settle under an NDA? (Trump has used those many times). As is, public disclosure of settlement terms ($15 million, etc.) might set the market for the next claim. Lawyers, any thoughts?
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
An amazing piece of journalism, if only for the resources on display. It is the work of: —Four bylined reporters. —*19* contributing reporters. —Three researchers. Not many news orgs in America (or the world) that can marshal this kind of firepower. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/n...
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Luigi Mangione, Suspect in CEO Killing, Withdrew From a Life of Privilege and Promise
The suspect, Luigi Mangione, was an Ivy League tech graduate from a prominent Maryland family who in recent months had suffered physical and psychological pain.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Happens after every sensational crime (including this CEO assassination): The TVs put on a bunch of people (profilers, former agents, etc.) to speculate about what might have happened and what’s going to happen. Guesswork.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New: Trump won the popular vote narrowly. But in news deserts—counties where there are no local news sources or reporters —he won in a landslide. Latest by me and @volk_maps for Medill School’s Local News Initiative. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/1...
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In news deserts, Trump won in a landslide
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Missing background: Isaacman is an ally/associate of Elon Musk. He is expected to double down on NASA’s reliance on private companies for space flight. Musk owns one such company, SpaceX.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I get all the uproar about this pardon, including the “he lied” criticism. But show me a loving parent who wouldn’t do the same for their child if they had the power.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Missing background: Boulos is Tiffany Trump’s father in law.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Missing background: In 2005, Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 felony counts, including tax evasion and witness tampering, the latter arising from his retaliation against his brother in law, a witness against him. Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother in law, More….
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
If my mother had ever sent me anything close to this searing (and thank God she never did), I would consider my life a failure. Absolutely mortifying.
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I have some thoughts about this Drake-Kendrick beef, and…Hey, where’d everyone go?
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Not just the best Thanksgiving-eve-travel-is-hell movie, but the best Thanksgiving movie (admittedly not a big genre).
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Paul Farhi @farhip.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Let the games begin.
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