Steve Bannon got out of federal prison at around 3 am Tuesday. Seven hours later, he was live on his War Room podcast to “flood the zone with shit” exactly one week before the presidential election. Flooding the zone with shit is Bannon’s own oft-quoted description of his media strategy: churning so many lies or […]
Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon has been released from prison after spending four-months behind bars. Bannon, 70, was released from a Danbury, Connecticut, correctional facility on Tuesday, Benjamin O’Cone, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman, told the BBC. Bannon, a conservative podcast host who was key to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was convicted of […]
Matthew Dentler, head of features at Apple TV+, appeared to be more personally invested in the picture than your typical movie studio head at a company with a $3.6 trillion market cap. He started discussing the project with McQueen “a couple years ago” and through the process they would text and call each other, bouncing […]
The 10th richest person in the world, Steve Ballmer likes his nonpartisan method of civic engagement better than cutting checks for particular candidates. Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images Plenty of billionaires put money into politics, and they all pick a team when they do so. George Soros, Tom Steyer and Reid Hoffman all […]
Trump Using Steve Bannon’s ‘Flood the Zone’ Media Strategy
There are times when Washington still feels like what it used to be—a sleepy little Southern city. Generations of some of the most powerful people on earth have spent their days in DC griping that the city is a backwater. But Washington’s modest position in our constellation of great cities was always part of its […]
