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Activism, Uncensored: Abortion Protests Spark "Coast to Coast" Conflict
12 days ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout
21 days ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Savor the Great Musk Panic. This is the elite argument against free speech in a nutshell: “If you favor ‘all legal speech,’ you really just want to slander, threaten, and harass. Now please let me tell millions of New York Times readers I ‘assume’ you’re a racist itching to use the N-word.”
24 days ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
Savor the Great Musk Panic
26 days ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The "Gentlemen's Agreement": When TV News Won't Identify Defense Lobbyists
29 days ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The "Gentlemen's Agreement": When TV News Won't Identify Defense Lobbyists. As war rages, there will be officials on TV with sincere opinions about how the U.S. can help Ukraine. Very often, however, what you’re watching is a paid lobbyist plugging for a weapons maker.
29 days ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
The Washington Post's "Libs of TikTok" Nothingburger
1 month ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Twitter's Chickens Come Home to Roost
Twitter's Chickens Come Home to Roost. A few of the more prominent Musk critics are claiming merely to be upset at the prospect of wealthy individuals controlling speech. This is a bizarre thing to be worrying about since it’s been the absolute reality in America for a while.
1 month ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
Editor's Note: On "Russian Dissent"
Give War A Chance. More and more, we're told outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problems.
1 month ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The Media Campaign to Protect Joe Biden Passes the Point of Absurdity
2 months ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
World's Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
Orwell Was Right
Putin the Apostate
When Boring People Turn Dangerous: Canada's Insane Power Grab
3 months ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The Great International Convoy Fiasco
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea: The Lab Leak "Conspiracy Theory"
3 months ago by AXXA to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
Conversation With Russell Brand, Who Isn't "Right Wing". His willingness to court all audiences is an affront to the basic formula of current commercial media, which relies upon a strategy of identifying out-groups and rallying audiences to escalating hatreds.
3 months ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment
Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment. Denouncing truckers for "unacceptable views," Canada's Prime Minister skipped town rather than face evidence of his own unpopularity. Is neoliberalism finally cracking?
3 months ago by Chipit to /s/canada from taibbi.substack.com
The Lab Leak "Conspiracy Theory". there was a time not long ago when no responsible press outlet would have declared any hypothesis off-limits before the mystery had been solved. Orfalea does a great job here using everything from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to Fahrenheit 451.
The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking"
3 months ago by BravoVictor to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
3 months ago by jet199 to /s/SocialMedia from taibbi.substack.com
The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking". They deployed a rhetorical device that such “checking” sites now use with regularity, repeatedly correcting assertions Thacker and the British Medical Journal never made.
3 months ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
The Folly of Pandemic Censorship - Matt Taibbi
3 months ago by Drewski to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Let’s Not Have a War. The “core interest” of the Washington consensus is war. The bulk of the people elected to congress and a lion’s share of the lobbyists, lawyers, and journalists who snuggle in a giant fornicating mass in the capital are dedicated to the upkeep of the war bureaucracy.
3 months ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
Let’s Not Have a War
Activism, Uncensored: Impact of Gun Control Laws Visible in Virginia Protests
4 months ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Joe Biden's Awesome First Year
If the left could solve the problem of two Americas, it’s now decided that the America that is left behind, that it used to profess great care for and ambitions for, should just be annihilated with ridicule and a sort of mockery that dehumanizes them and renders them irrelevant.
4 months ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
What Happened to the "Question Authority" Era? Discussion with Author Walter Kirn. Waiting to get better from the thing that wasn’t prevented, so that you can try to prevent it again — if that’s not Joseph Heller, what is?
4 months ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a bit “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s impressively on-message. Mocking the hayseeds is always fun, but what a bonus, when you can jack off some of TV’s biggest advertisers at the same time!
Vaccine Aristocrats Strike Again
A Tale of Two Authoritarians
Meet Jed Rakoff, the Judge Who Exposed the "Rigged Game"
TK Mashup: "Omicron DEATH!". For a while now it’s been clear the primary objective of most pandemic coverage is to scare the socks off mass audiences. Matt Orfalea does a hilarious job of stitching together an homage to the latest moral panic.
"Omicron Death!" - Pandemic Pandemonia Reaches New Heights.
4 months ago by Drewski to /s/propaganda from taibbi.substack.com
The Democrats' Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump. “I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what [their children are] being taught,” 1619 Project author and New York Times writer Hannah-Jones said.
Loudoun County Epilogue: A Worsening Culture War, and the False Hope of "Decorum"
5 months ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Loudoun County, Virginia: A Culture War in Four Acts
Biden's Troubles Aren't Bernie's Fault, or a Media Mirage. "From there, I scrolled in search of the inevitable, “Freedom of the press is good, but” passage. It was three paragraphs down."
5 months ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck? The resignation of Jack Dorsey is the latest plot point in the story of the Internet's transformation, from democratizing tool to instrument of elite control.
5 months ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Thanksgiving is Awesome
6 months ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Colleagues in national media spent over a year telling the country Kyle Rittenhouse was not just guilty, but a moral monster whose acquittal would be an in-your-face affirmation of systemic white supremacy. It was reckless beyond belief for analysts to tell audiences Rittenhouse was a murderer.
6 months ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
The Rittenhouse Verdict is Only Shocking if You Followed the Last Year of Terrible Reporting
Another Humorous Substack Panic. The notion that Substack is or was a “threat” to traditional media itself speaks to the comical inability of these organizations to understand cause and effect. Traditional media companies in the Trump years suffered catastrophic declines in audience trust.
The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins. Igor Danchenko is being set up to take the rap as the dirty Russian rat who hoodwinked poor civic-minded Christopher Steele, the FBI, and the entire American press corps into propping up the biggest hoax since the WMD affair.
The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins
Taibbi: Another Humorous Substack Panic
6 months ago by penelopepnortney to /s/WayOfTheBern from taibbi.substack.com
Mainstream media panicking over Substack authors doing actual journlism
As America Falls Apart, Profits Soar
Rachel Maddow's Shocking New Low. With last night's loony response to the indictment of Igor Danchenko, the MSNBC anchor takes a bold leap off the credibility cliff.
The "Let's Go, Brandon!" Freakout Goes Next-Level. Is it really possible that these people don’t get they’re being trolled? Part of the joke of “Let’s Go Brandon,” of course, is that you couldn’t go five minutes during the last administration without hearing someone screaming “Fuck Trump!”
The Red-Pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia. I met people who were offended by the existence of a closed Facebook group — the “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County” — that contains six school board members and compiled a list of parents deemed insufficiently supportive of “racial equity efforts.”
6 months ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
Meltdown is an investigative audio series. The subject is one of the great taboos in mainstream media, which makes the sheer breadth of the series all the more satisfying: the Democratic Party’s botched response to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, and the political consequences that followed.
6 months ago by Chipit to /s/Documentaries from taibbi.substack.com
The Red-Pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia
The "Let's Go, Brandon!" Freakout Goes Next-Level
6 months ago by BravoVictor to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
The subtext is that people with the right degrees deserve to be rich, and have health insurance, and good schooling for their kids, and dignified work, while those who don't deserve failure, in the same way smokers deserve lung disease — especially if they make unsanctioned political choices.
7 months ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The Cult of the Vaccine. If you’re thinking it was only a matter of time before the mere fact of molnupiravir’s existence would be pitched in headlines as actual bad news, you’re not wrong
7 months ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Meet Josiah Zayner, America's Most Censored Person
7 months ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Listen to This Article: The News is America's New Religion, and We're in a Religious War
In other words, audiences correctly grasped that the stupidity of political debates on TV did not mean America’s actual politics were stupid.
7 months ago by [deleted] to /s/whatever from taibbi.substack.com
Democrats Swoon Over George W. Bush, In Match Made in Hell. The man they unironically called Chimpy McBu$hitler. WORST! PRESIDENT! EVER!!
8 months ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
"Breaking Points": On Afghanistan, the Revolving Door, and Media Failure to Disclose Contracting Ties of Guests. Many long-ago disgraced or discredited hawks were mysteriously revived to play analyst. “The same liars are elevated despite the fact that we knew they were lying.”
8 months ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response. They felt it more appropriate to embrace the thinking of a modern philosopher like Marantz favorite Richard Rorty, who believes in “replacing the whole framework” of society, which includes “not doing the individual rights thing anymore.”
How would the public have looked at practices like bringing billions of dollars in cash on pallets to pay bribes, or multi-million-dollar construction projects to nowhere, or millions spent on hired guns for phantom deliveries or security exercises, during the Battle of the Bulge?
8 months ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
Sometimes in America we’re just not told the whole story, and when the press can’t or won’t do it, it’s left to individual people to fill in the blanks. In a few rare cases, they find out something they weren’t supposed to, and in rarer cases still, they learn enough to beat the system.
9 months ago by Chipit to /s/finance from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: Hitler. A theme running through nearly all of the “Meet the Censored” articles is this problem of algorithmic censorship systematically throwing out babies with bathwater.
9 months ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Spying and Smearing is "Un-American," not Tucker Carlson
10 months ago by carn0ld03 to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: Matt Orfalea. The next morning, at at 5:42 AM, he received an official strike from the channel, which resulted in a one-week ban and left him two strikes away from removal under YouTube’s three-strikes system. The catch? The strike was for one of the cuts he’d already deleted.
10 months ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
If Private Platforms Use Government Guidelines to Police Content, is that State Censorship? As with financial services, military contracting, environmental protection, and other fields, the phenomenon of regulatory capture is demonstrably real in the pharmaceutical world.
Why Has "Ivermectin" Become a Dirty Word? With the world desperate for news about an unprecedented disaster, Silicon Valley had essentially decided to disallow discussion of a potential solution — disallow calls for more research and more study — because not enough research and study had been done.
11 months ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Congratulations, Elitists: Liberals and Conservatives Do Have Common Interests Now. Information that is true but doesn’t cut the right way politically is now routinely either non-reported or actively misreported.
11 months ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
The Division of Light and Power, Dennis Kucinich’s enormous new memoir about his time as the Mayor of Cleveland, and his battle against Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, or CEI. The book is 700 pages of proof of the comical extent of how rigged American politics can be, and is.
11 months ago by Chipit to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com
Matt Taibbi: In the book you describe when you first arrive in the City Council. It’s made clear that it’s a racket, that the legislatures are there to be servants of financial interests. Dennis Kucinich: As the reader is well aware, it’s not just Cleveland we’re talking about. It's everywhere.
This Week in Neo-Soviet News... In which a leading American paper quietly excises an inconvenient historical detail
12 months ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
"Fact-Checking" Takes Another Beating. By labeling whatever the current scientific consensus happened to be an immutable “fact,” media outlets made the normal evolution of scientific debates look dishonest, and pointlessly heightened mistrust of both scientists and media.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Hopkins has been critical of the emotional tenor of propaganda around Covid-19, which treats the crisis not as a logistical problem to be solved but as a signal that people should fundamentally alter their expectations for life, lowering demands for political freedoms.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It
1 year ago by scrubking to /s/corruption from taibbi.substack.com
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It. The new campaign is aimed at stamping out areas for surveillance-proof communication. Reporters pledged assistance, snooping for evidence of wrongness in digital rather than geographical “hidey holes.”
Be it Resolved: The Mainstream Media is Dying, and that's OK. Matt Taibbi Debates Ben Bradlee, Jr.
Interview: Glenn Greenwald. "I think that it really revealed this new “lawfare” where instead of doing overt coups, you give the cover of concocting corruption scandals against democratically elected leaders you dislike, like what the CIA did in manufacturing the Russiagate scandal against Trump."
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Why "Securing Democracy" Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools. Part of what makes Securing Democracy compelling is that Brazil’s “Operation Car Wash” affair shows how easily corruption scandals are manufactured in the digital age to undermine democratically popular figures.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com
Whether it was unconcern with attorney-client privilege after the raid of Michael Cohen’s office, disinterest in the implications of the case of despised Julian Assange, people who probably once described themselves as progressives seem to have lost touch with core ideas in recent years.
On April Fool’s Day, CNN ran an “analysis” of Joe Biden’s presidency: "Will JRB take his place alongside FDR and LBJ?" Media began copying each other, with Washington Post and Yahoo echoing the same line.
Meet the Censored: The U.S. Right to Know Foundation. They inhabit a corner of the media universe focusing on who pays for what kind of research and why. They began publishing the results of FOIA requests about COVID, then suddenly disappeared from Google.
Silicon Valley has gone from banning Trump for past concrete violations to future potential violations. Facebook just last week banned an interview of Trump declaring that “the voice of Donald Trump” will henceforth be removed, as the risk of allowing it to be heard at all is “too great.”
Joe Scarborough begins his rant by insinuating that those who’ve spent time documenting errors on the Russiagate story are maybe on “Russia’s payroll,” which is nothing new for this network, of course, or frankly for the press in general during this time.
Master List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus
1 year ago by muellermeierschulz to /s/whatever from taibbi.substack.com
Dear Joe Scarborough: Nice Smear. Now Invite Me To Debate Your Network's Russiagate Coverage - Matt Taibbi
1 year ago by EndlessSunflowers to /s/whatever from taibbi.substack.com
Alternatives to Censorship
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
A Biden Appointee's Troubling Views On The First Amendment. Wu’s comment about “returning… to the kind of media environment that prevailed in the 1950s” is telling. This was a disastrous period in American media that saw all sorts of glaring social problems covered up or de-emphasized with ease.
Ellsberg described a vicious cycle, in which leaders lie pervasively, then learn to have so much contempt for the public that swallows those lies, that they feel justified in lying more. Ellsberg is adamant that our military and intelligence services don’t learn from even the bloodiest failures.
Aaugh! A Brief List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus. how many times are we going to do this? We’ve spent the last five years watching as anonymous officials make major Russia-related claims, only to have those evidence-free claims fizzle.
The Sovietization of the American Press - TK News by Matt Taibbi. The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement. Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work.
Interview with Martin Gurri, "A Short-Term Pessimist and Long-Term Optimist" The elites are stuck in a sterile nostalgia for the 20th century. They are at war with the world as it actually is today, and I imagine they would love to disband the public and summon a more obedient version.
The Top 10 "Controversial" Books Still On Sale On eBay. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, $15.70.
Meet the Censored: Myanmar Writer Zaw Moe Shinn. Zaw’s story is a little different, as it involves a state authority, not Big Tech. But it’s horrifying all the same, and holds some potent warnings for those who haven’t thought through the worst-case scenarios for Internet crackdowns.
In Defense Of Substack - TK News by Matt Taibbi. The upper-class media is outraged that "Substack is a dangerous direct threat to traditional news media." In other words, they don't get to control what journalism is and they're super pissed off about it.
