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The Tapper-Thompson Book Team

Two of the journalists toughest on Joe Biden are teaming up to write a campaign book focused largely on the president.

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Oliver Darcy
December 05, 2024

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on CNN. (Screen grab)

Two of the journalists toughest on Joe Biden are teaming up to write a campaign book focused largely on the president.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson, both of whom have treated the president to an unrelenting stream of hawkish coverage, have started reaching out to figures in Bidenworld as they begin reporting out their book, I'm told.

Unlike many of the campaign books due out next year, which center mostly on President-elect Donald Trump's astonishing return to power, I'm told that Tapper and Thompson are…

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The Fourth Estate

The Los Angeles Times name remains visible on the former LA Times downtown building. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Pressing Problems in L.A.: The turmoil over at the Los Angles Times shows no signs of letting up. On Thursday, Harry Litman, a 15-year contributor to the newspaper's opinion page, announced that he had resigned his position over owner Patrick Soon-Shiong's "cozying up" to Donald Trump. "I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons," Litman wrote. In the scathing piece, Litman also noted Soon-Shiong’s “idea of balance is fundamentally misplaced when on one side of the balance is a sociopathic liar like Donald Trump.” You should read his piece in full.

Meanwhile, after Soon-Shiong said he would be placing an A.I.-powered "bias meter" on news stories, the Times' Guild fired back, rebuking the owner for having "publicly suggested his staff harbors bias, without offering evidence or examples." CNN’s Liam Reilly and Jon Passantino have more on that here.

But where is Executive Editor Terry Tang? I’m told that…

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