Paul Farhi
@farhip
I write about the news media, other topics. Formerly: WaPo. Latter-day stories in Atlantic, Athletic, Post, Vanity Fair, Daily Beast, CJR. [email protected]
Terrible news for a storied paper. Alden has gobbled up 68 newspapers and 300 weekly publications in the US — then guts them, lays off reporters and editors, and leaves communities with greatly reduced local coverage. Boo.
NEW: Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group is making a last-minute bid for The Dallas Morning News, which reached a deal with Hearst earlier this month. MediaNews offering $16.50 a share to Hearst's $14 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
Wait, I remember this one from Mr. Solig’s eighth-grade math class! If you reduced the price of a product by 1,000 percent, you’d be paying people money to “buy” your product. Example: A 1,000 pct discount on a $1 product = $9 to the buyer. Overall, not a great retail strategy.
Trump claims he is going to reduce drug prices by 1,000 percent
AAA national average: $3.14/gal. gasprices.aaa.com GasBuddy national average: $3.15/gal. fuelinsights.gasbuddy.com Lowest state average price in GB survey: Mississippi at $2.699/gal. Trump made this same claim in April. It was wrong then, too: factcheck.org/2025/05/the-po…
Trump: Prices are down… Gasoline… We hit $1.99 a gallon today in five different states. Crowd: *applause*
Donald Trump has launched a frontal assault on the journalism business, @farhip argues—and so far, he’s winning. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
New: House GOP moves to rename Kennedy Center Opera House after Melania Trump thehill.com/blogs/in-the-k…
President Trump’s latest attack on a mainstream news outlet? Normally, @FoxNews would be all over it. But not this time, when Trump is targeting a fellow member of the Murdoch media empire. @jeremymbarr: washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…
“Senator Murkowski could have saved many millions of Americans from losing their health care coverage and their food assistance and their local hospitals, but she pushed in all her chips on a deal that was reneged by Trump almost immediately after the vote was finalized.”
If you happen to live in the continental United States and heard primal screaming this past Friday evening, I want to apologize. That may have been me. I was reading an article from the Anchorage Daily News in which Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) expressed outrage over Donald…
Funny story: After WW II, the U.S. recruited hundreds of German technicians who’d been members of the Nazi Party, some accused of war crimes, to work on the rocket and space programs that led to the moon shot. So, yeah, technically they weren’t “illegal” aliens.
MILLER: If you look at photos of the Empire State Building being built, you don’t see any illegal aliens. When you look at the photos of the NASA control room during the moon landing, you don’t see any illegal aliens. Americans built, sustained, and powered this country for two…
Jon Stewart, on the declining fortunes of late-night TV: “We’re all basically operating a Blockbuster kiosk inside a Tower Records.” (His extended rant about Paramount’s settlement w/Trump may be the bravest monologue ever aired on late-night TV. A hilarious firing offense).
“The independent press in the United States is facing what media outlets in too many other countries with aspiring autocrats have confronted,” @PostBaron tells @farhip. tinyurl.com/38myr57u
Why not just turn the press pool over to the members of MAGA media and cut out the middleman? White House removes Wall Street Journal from Scotland press pool over Epstein bombshell. politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
Donald Trump has launched a frontal assault on the journalism business, @farhip argues—and so far, he’s winning. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Lawsuits. Executive action. A compliant Congress and regulatory bureaucracy. Trump’s campaign to crush the media is succeeding. Latest by me for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The words “releasing” and “files” from a cabinet official are going to bring the conversation right back to Epstein.
Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files, available now at archives.gov/mlk. The documents include details about the FBI’s investigation into the assassination…