David Shields Journalist Profile

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Steve Austin and Roddy Piper are the WWE stars most like Donald Trump - The Washington Post

Sep 26, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | David Shields |Sean Gorman

Democracy Dies in DarknessThe rowdy, stone-cold case for which pro wrestler most resembles the GOP presidential nominee.
“Man Is Weak, and When He Makes Strength His Profession, He Is Weaker”: A Conversation with Wrestling Promoter Sean Görman About the Influence of the WWE on Trump’s Every Move

Sep 19, 2024 | mcsweeneys.net | David Shields

Sean Görman works as the villainous “Manager of Champions” in New England Championship Wrestling. A graduate of Emerson College’s creative writing program, he’s the author of wrestling memoir Until We’re Strangers Again and numerous articles and essays about wrestling.
An Excerpt from David Shields’s New Book: How We Got Here

Aug 13, 2024 | mcsweeneys.net | David Shields

- - -Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, QAnon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum physics, deconstruction, the current “crisis” in “nonfiction”-journalism- media-“truthiness.” If the perceiver, by his very presence, alters what’s perceived, Steve Bannon, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Surkov (performance artist turned Putin strategist), et al.
Energía a Debate → Plataforma líder en periodismo energético

Jan 29, 2023 | energiaadebate.com | David Shields

El próximo martes 31 de enero se cumplen 10 años de la devastadora explosión que dejó al menos 37 muertos y más de 120 heridos en el Centro Administrativo de Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) en Marina Nacional, Ciudad de México. El estallido se produjo a las 15.45 horas, justo en el lugar donde el personal sindicalizado se formaba para checar tarjeta y otros empleados iban y venían después de comer. La explosión destruyó parte de la fachada del edificio B2 y causó daños en varios pisos del B2 y del B1.