Excellent Piece of Writing

[.Hank]

@Larry_Williams I think this might be something you would enjoy reading. Certainly an interesting perspective on the current state of journalism.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself

 

[Willence]

He's right.

 

[BionicTiger]

I don’t align with Taibbi on a lot, but he’s great at what he does. His stances are well founded. His commentary is insightful. He’s been all over the Russia/collusion debacle, and the dangers of the rise of cancel culture/fall of civil liberties.

 

[tigerjimp]

China must be proud as we march towards our own Cultural Revolution.

 

[scotchtiger]

Very nice article.

“In a business where the first job requirement was once the willingness to ask tough questions, we’ve become afraid to ask obvious ones.”

 

[WinstonW101]

His books are very good to read too

 

[gooddogjudge]

@Larry_Williams I think this might be something you would enjoy reading. Certainly an interesting perspective on the current state of journalism.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself

Thanks for sharing. Excellent read!

 

[tigerGUY]

He's right.

The problem with the press is an unspoken liberal agenda. Nothing more or less.

 

[MoneMan]

He does not hide his disdain for the current administration, but his thoughts and written words are very well put forth. I agree with him that we do not have dialogue anymore; we jump to a conclusion.

 

[Larry_Williams]

Thank you! Looking forward to reading.

 

[PawsFan_]

This was a good, but distressing, read. Thank you for sharing. There are 350 million people in America. I'd say 349 million are fairly moderate and rational. It's sad that the 1 million who are bat $hit crazy are brining the rest of us down.

 

[athigpe]

“If there’s an edge to Fang at all, it seems geared toward people in our business who grew up in affluent circumstances and might intellectualize topics that have personal meaning for him.”

This sums up the vast majority of the liberal left whites that I’ve dealt with. All of this is like an intellectual faux-cause to them that they create to give their lives purpose as 99% of us have the most kush, easy lives in human history.

 

[JRBB]

Was not familiar with the author. Looked him up. He’s apparently been a bit of a Ricardo Cabeza in his past, especially when it comes to characterization and treatment of women in his work. which is a shame. because he seems spot on in this piece, and his own shortcomings in the past will be the hammer they use to bash these thoughts into irrelevant muck.

 

[DaBadass]

This was a good, but distressing, read. Thank you for sharing. There are 350 million people in America. I'd say 349 million are fairly moderate and rational. It's sad that the 1 million who are bat $hit crazy are brining the rest of us down.

It’s a lot more than 1 million. I’ve seen people pretty close to me become radicalized. This is happening to liberals and conservatives.

 

[petegroove]

Matt Taibbi has been using his journalist stick well for years, not afraid of who he pokes, just seems to trying to live up to traditional journalistic integrity.

The traditional view of the press was never based on some contrived, mathematical notion of “balance,” i.e. five paragraphs of Republicans for every five paragraphs of Democrats. The ideal instead was that we showed you everything we could see, good and bad, ugly and not, trusting that a better-informed public would make better decisions. This vision of media stressed accuracy, truth, and trust in the reader’s judgment as the routes to positive social change.

For all our infamous failings, journalists once had some toughness to them. We were supposed to be willing to go to jail for sources we might not even like, and fly off to war zones or disaster areas without question when editors asked. It was also once considered a virtue to flout the disapproval of colleagues to fight for stories we believed in (Watergate, for instance).

 

[BryanSimpsonClemson]

It’s a lot more than 1 million. I’ve seen people pretty close to me become radicalized. This is happening to liberals and conservatives.

Taibbi’s book, Hate Inc, covers a lot of this and the how and why. And I agree, this year those radical numbers are growing at a rapid rate.

 

[DaBadass]

Taibbi’s book, Hate Inc, covers a lot of this and the how and why. And I agree, this year those radical numbers are growing at a rapid rate.

I’ve read a lot of his stuff for Rolling Stone and his writing has resonated with me for years. I’ll have to check that out

 

[treetiger]

One of the most stunning things that I heard yesterday was hearing a contrast of the media of a few weeks ago and the protests from people wanting to go back to work and end the lockdown against the George Floyd protests.

The media was all over the protesters who wanted to go back to work calling them radicles who want to spread the virus and kill thousands of people, yet calling the protesters who want to dismantle the government as peaceful compassionate protesters. One reporter was saying how peaceful they are while a building is burning behind him.

This snake has two heads that need cutting off, and one is absolutely this biased prejudiced media.

 

[SouthFloridaBroker]

Good read.

 

[gooddogjudge]

Was not familiar with the author. Looked him up. He’s apparently been a bit of a Ricardo Cabeza in his past, especially when it comes to characterization and treatment of women in his work. which is a shame. because he seems spot on in this piece, and his own shortcomings in the past will be the hammer they use to bash these thoughts into irrelevant muck.

I think he writes often for Rolling Stone.

 

[SDTiger9]

This was a good, but distressing, read. Thank you for sharing. There are 350 million people in America. I'd say 349 million are fairly moderate and rational. It's sad that the 1 million who are bat $hit crazy are brining the rest of us down.

global platforms of LinkedIn, Video smartphones, Twitter, FB have allowed 3-4 billion people to live right next door to you.
Extremists have taken hold of these and have taken moderate Dems or Pubs and FORCE them to TAKE A SIDE or be OUTED as a racist or some other toxic measure to kill their employment.

People always ask why and how I can be Independent..... it’s real simple. I don’t have to sacrifice my own personal beliefs to do the right thing. I have 1 goal, sustaining the United States of America. Most of you are willing to self sabotage over bullshit because you don’t want to “appear” aligned.

 

[WinstonW101]

I think he writes often for Rolling Stone.

He’s the editor of rolling stone

 

[Grady21]

Cultural Marxism. Voddie Baucham breaks it down very well.

 

[yuthgi]

Admitting that the press was protective of Hillary and partially handed Trump the presidency, you can bet they won’t make that mistake again. The liberal press will ha e no problem continuing to Hitler-ize Trump while painting Joe Biden as a faulty yet superior candidate.

 

[Watson to Renfrow]

His work on the financial crisis was very good