So Bannon didn't actually write this book, right?
That fact seems to kind of glossed over or the lede buried when I read about this.
However...
WaPo cautions readers about blockbuster book that ignited firestorm with Steven Bannon comments$1:
At this point, it should be a given that MSM reporting on President Trump and his allies deserves to be immediately second-guessed.
On Wednesday, the Washington Post revealed background information about author Michael Wolff, whose upcoming book provoked a feud between President Trump and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
Wolff, a regular contributor to USA Today and Hollywood Reporter, quoted Bannon as making disparaging remarks about President Trump and his family in the book “Fire and Fury,” an inside look at the Trump administration that was excerpted at some outlets.
Post reporter Paul Fahri described him as a “provocateur and media polemicist, Wolff has a penchant for stirring up an argument and pushing the facts as far as they’ll go, and sometimes further than they can tolerate, according to his critics.”
The piece also said the “Fire and Fury” author “has been accused of not just recreating scenes in his books and columns, but of creating them wholesale.”
Among the controversial Bannon quotes found in the book are remarks about Donald Trump, Jr.’s meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 election.
“Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad s**t, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately,” Wolff quoted Bannon as saying.
Fahri noted that Wolff’s “reliability has been challenged before — over quotes, descriptions and general accounts he’s provided in his many newspaper and magazine columns and in several books.”
The article described one occasion in which “Wolff kept his bankers at bay by fabricating a story about his father-in-law having open-heart surgery.”
In another piece, Post senior reporter Aaron Blake said that “Wolff has taken some of the most gossiped-about aspects of the Trump White House and put them forward as fact — often plainly stated fact without even anonymous sources cited.”
Blake concluded:
“For whatever reason, Wolff seems to have arrived at a stunning amount of incredible conclusions that hundreds of dogged reporters from major newspapers haven’t. Whether that’s because he had unprecedented access — Wolff says he had “something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing” — or because his filter was just more relaxed than others, it’s worth evaluating each claim individually and not just taking every salacious thing said about the White House as gospel.”
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