Matt Taibbi sees what's happening in American journalism - he left Rolling Stone to find freedom - but, I'm not sure he grasps it, yet. Here's a few snippets from his latest piece (with some appropriate video back-up) so you can, at least, see what he, and I, see, too:
"West Wing was General Hospital for rich white liberals, a seven-season love letter to the enlightened attitudes of the Bobo-in-Paradise demographic. If that’s the self-image of the national press, it’s no wonder they make people want to vomit."
"It’s about being consistent. If you tell us on January 12th that all 50 state capitols are under serious threat — I was genuinely worried — you have to tell us what happens at the end of the story a week later. Was that threat real but deterred? Was it overblown? What happened to all of those warnings?"
"Like the wider Trump-Russia story itself, which magically vanished from coverage before both the 2018 and 2020 election seasons, audiences were asked for a time to care about certain things as if their lives depended on it, then just as quickly asked to forget the issues ever came up. And they wonder why people feel manipulated?"
"The fact that pundits and reporters are leading the charge for an ever-purer monoculture is beyond creepy."
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