Defending (Gasp!) the Media in the Rise of Trump

Mark Olmsted
5 min readApr 30, 2018
Michelle Wolf at the WHCA dinner

When I checked my social media feeds on Sunday morning, I thought for sure all of the coverage of Michelle Wolf’s roastalogue would focus on her upbraiding of the media for secretly being happy Trump was elected:

“You pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him. I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He’s helped you sell your…

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Mark Olmsted

Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.