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No, you get off MY lawn

Television Is the New Television by Michael Wolff

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Man did I dislike this book.  Based on the jacket and the title I was expecting a treatise on the nature of content as driven by the state of each method of delivery – TV in the era of even faster communication. I wanted an actual exploration of the one and only thing most of us know about Marshall McLuhan – the medium is the message now that media has changed so much – but instead I got a bunch of inside baseball from someone who couldn’t stop congratulating himself for things like knowing that McLuhan quote is a paraphrase. […]

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1/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Midterm election are Tuesday, November 6th

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

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You’ve probably forgotten about Michael Wolff’s Trump expose Fire and Fury as well as the explosive media surge its release caused in January because 10 months in the Trump White House is the equivalent to 10 years in anyone else’s.  Personally I was reminded of Fire and Fury by a friend who was reading it on the beach this past August so when I was looking for my next read (besides the dozen or so books currently unread on my bookshelf) I sought out this already outdated publication. How out of date is Fire and Fury? In the single week (10/4 to 10/11) since I […]

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10/11/2018 's CBR10 Review No:103 |

Boss Baby

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

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For a long while I’ve thought Donald Trump was the stupidest person ever to be elected President of the United States, but Michael Wolff’s book opened my eyes: now I think he’s one of the stupidest people alive. And not just stupid! Willful, petty, cruel, belligerent, incurious, capricious, infantile, and dogmatic, for starters, a thesaurusful of poisonous adjectives: basically every quality you wouldn’t want in the lowest-level employee, let alone the most powerful person on Earth. “Fire and Fury” isn’t straight reportage: it often has a gossipy, opinionated feel, and I found myself flagging passage after passage that seemed to […]

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1/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Not the president we want, but possibly the president we deserve

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

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In all the madness of 2016, I forgot that so much of the talk in the first month was about how deeply Trump didn’t want to be in the White House. That the campaign was all a ruse to create a new media organization run by Roger Ailes and Steve Bannon, with Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Satan (citation needed) at the helm. That view is reaffirmed, here, and gives me flashbacks to how terrible a prospect that would’ve been. Look, Donald Trump looked like he very well could’ve been the worst president we’ve had since at least Warren G. […]

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1/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

Insider exposé with little to no actual shocking revelations…

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

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And Cannonball Read book #3 is done. With all the hoopla over Fire and Fury last week, I immediately added it to my reading list and powered through to finish it. For anyone somehow unaware, this is an insider look at the first (almost) year of Trump’s presidency, with some insights into the end of the campaign and the election. Based on the above-referenced hoopla, I was expecting much more in the way of explosive revelations. Instead, it ended up being a gossipy confirmation of the in-fighting and backstabbing within the West Wing and our president’s less-than-presidential personality and behavior. […]

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1/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

‘Fire and Fury’ Is a Steve Bannon Tell-All Written by Michael Wolff

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

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Over the weekend, I read Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and if you haven’t read it yet, I would suggest it’s not really worth the time investment if you’ve been keeping up with politics since Donald Trump was elected (that is most of you, I imagine). It essentially recounts Donald Trump’s first year in office, and there’s not a lot in the book we didn’t already know. It’s basically everything that the NYTimes, The Washington Post, Politico, and Axios reported over the course of the last year, as told from Steve Bannon’s perspective. And make […]

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1/8/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |


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