Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
As L.A. Times and Washington Post Kill Presidential Endorsements, Do Editorial Pages Still Matter?
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The landscape around presidential endorsements looks a great deal different this year — and may for many cycles to come.
After the Los Angeles Times’ owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, blocked the paper’s editorial board from its planned endorsement of Kamala Harris (prompting the resignation of editorials editor Mariel Garza), the Washington Post’s leadership announced that they will as a matter of policy no longer endorse presidential candidates. “Our job at The Washington Post is to provide through the newsroom nonpartisan news for all Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers make up their own minds,” wrote William Lewis, the paper’s publisher and CEO.
This is a precarious moment for news organizations across the board — even before one considers the mitigating factor of what a Donald Trump restoration, with a vengeance-happy leader in control of the federal government, might mean for papers and for their parent companies. (Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos certainly has a fair amount to lose should Trump turn his attention in the direction of Amazon’s federal contracts.) It seems apparent that media literacy is at something of a low moment, which means that — and this is true to an extent on both sides — opinion pieces are read as declarations of purpose on behalf of the reporting staff of the paper, as opposed to (in reality) writing done outside the remit of the paper’s newsgathering staff.
The so-called “Chinese wall” between news and opinion is a standard feature of newspapers, and one that it is easy to overlook when angry at the failing Washington Post for what one might perceive as their biased coverage.
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