Goes without saying, DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

Anyway it seems very consistent to me that the guy who wrote The End of Fox News would treat sexual trafficking of minors in such a breathtakingly cynical way, as a simple matter of political jockeying

My other observation is that Jeffrey Epstein was a semi-literate knucklehead who fancied himself an intellectual, Joe Rogan-style. But neither his shallow intellect nor his predatory pedophilia seemed to disturb the many academics who flocked to his little salons

Stelter’s book, despite being panned by Wolff, is far more journalistic and gives the subject matter the serious treatment it deserves. Wolff’s book reads like a second-rate tabloid piece

But that is far from his only crime. The entire book is frivolous and gossipy. He refuses to engage with the idea that Fox News is a pernicious lie machine and treats those who do (like Stelter) as earnest scolds

(Also, the Brian Stelter book is Hoax, not After the Fall)

Firstly, Wolff’s prose is pretentious and impenetrable. He had sentences that spanned the length of half a page. By the time I got to the end, I’d forgotten the beginning