Harold Meyerson

In his late-night press conference following the assassination attempt at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ dinner, President Trump noted the relatively high rate of presidential assassinations: four out of the 45 men who’ve served as chief executive... See more

When Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted last Thursday on the Ellison family’s purchase of the company, the result wasn’t exactly close. Approximately 1.743 billion shares were cast in favor of the sale, while just 16.3 million were cast against it.... See more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firing yesterday of Navy Secretary John Phelan would normally be bound for the “world will little note nor long remember” file, but for its ironies and its context. As for ironies, Phelan was a perfectly typical Trump appo... See more

It’s been an instructive couple of weeks for those of us who hunger for news of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, his trillion-dollar toy. In California, news came of an antitrust lawsuit filed by the state against the company that alleges Amazon pressured Levi’s an... See more

Like most of the studio moguls during Hollywood’s golden years, Warner Bros. chief Jack Warner is remembered, if at all, for his studio’s product. Despite his multiple shortcomings as a boss, he was the guy who shaped the studio that pioneered talking pic... See more