“I can hardly tell you how boring it is to interview almost every politician among the multitudes I have ever interviewed (journalists can't say this, because if people knew how boring politicians were they wouldn't read what we write), how dead the conversation feels, how bald, flat, uninteresting the message is.”

American journalist and media consultant

Michael Wolff is an American journalist, media consultant, columnist, and contributor, known for his reporting on media and business. He has worked for USA Today and The Hollywood Reporter, and he was a former editor of Adweek. Wolff has written seven books. Among them are Burn Rate, published in 1998 about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News, a 2008 biography of Rupert Murdoch. He also co-founded the news aggregation website Newser. His work has earned two National Magazine Awards and a Mirror Award.