Edmund Lee
@edmundlee
Sensibility is cheap. Reporting is expensive. elee@nytimes.com (DMs open)
This is a smart, nuanced critique of @nytimes.com's coverage of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ... but I wish I knew who wrote it:
Mathias Döpfner — the most acquisitive media executive at the moment — pens an editorial for @thespectator1828.bsky.social warning of the collapse of the West, the superior way of life: spectator.com/article/ther...
The OpenAI rogue agent escape was much worse than you know: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week - www.reuters.com/business/its...
Judge orders Paramount to temporarily pause Warner Bros acquisition www.reuters.com/world/us-sta...
updated with $META, $SNAP and TikTok US (cc @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social @felixsalmon.com)
First reported example of Bari Weiss meddling in 60 Minutes. Finally a reporter asked the follow up question nicely done @lulugn.bsky.social
The coming BDS vote at the @foodcoop.bsky.social is the political moment of our times … or something like that:
The original Times Square, New York Times Building, where the paper’s new owner initiated the new year’s ball drop
Fascinating difference in these two ledes, one from @nytimes.com, the other from @wsj.bsky.social Both fair and accurate, but The Journal makes a key observation in the second graph: "The 6-3 decision...further weakens the Voting Rights Act..." The Times says the same in the 22nd graph.
You think prices are too high now? Soon, the US's ability to borrow endlessly while simultaneously exporting inflation will implode USD reserves hit their lowest point ever, meaning central banks are holding fewer $$ despite being the reserve currency and oil priced in USD
And here, the final act OFF THE RECORD pilot: edmundlee.substack.com/p/the-final-...