Erik Wemple

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Erik Wemple

Conservative media is failing Elon Musk (washingtonpost.com) Conservative media is failing Elon Musk By Erik Wemple 2025040410453600 Elon Musk sounded a touch casual when he called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" in a Feb. 28 appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. The comment didn't surface until the second hour of the taping, after Rogan talked about "pump and dumps" and other get-rich-quick schemes.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Erik Wemple

23 hours agoWhat's popular and well-intentioned isn't always what's financially best for Social Security. For most current and future retirees, Social Security income isn't a luxury or optional. It's a source of income that most will rely on to cover their expenses as they age. In each of the previous 23 years, …

3 weeks ago | marshallnewsmessenger.com | Erik Wemple

Can Evan Vucci please testify every time a major First Amendment dispute arises in federal court? Vucci is the chief Washington photographer for the Associated Press, a job in which he paces the White House complex in pursuit of candid and compelling shots of presidents and aides, plus the politicians, foreign potentates and celebrities who come to visit. The craft requires an aesthete’s eye, a newshound’s reading diet, and a curious mix of patience and endurance.

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Erik Wemple

AP photojournalist steals the show at court hearing on Trump exclusion (washingtonpost.com) AP photojournalist steals the show at court hearing on Trump exclusion By Erik Wemple 2025032819143900 Can Evan Vucci please testify every time a major First Amendment dispute arises in federal court?

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Erik Wemple

Newspapers have suffered some indignities over the past two decades. More than 3,200 of them have closed since 2005. More than 45,000 newsroom jobs, gone. Many of those remaining get gobbled up by vulture funds; their journalists take abuse at public meetings; and in many jurisdictions, politicians hatch strategies to strip them of a critical revenue source. And now comes "Paperboy," an ad for Sling TV, a subsidiary of Dish Network that offers television channels via the internet.