The flaw in the system is that even the biggest news companies now operate under the assumption that at least half their potential audience isn’t listening. This leads to problems, and the fact that the easiest way to keep your own demographic is to feed it negative stories about others.

by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com

Meet the Censored: Mark Crispin Miller. "By encouraging the school to sack him over a complaint, Crispin Miller’s colleagues are telling students that it’s faster to eliminate or suppress unpleasant ideas than find successful arguments against them. This feels like the opposite of teaching."

by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com

The Wokest News Stories of 2020. The year in media was marked by grotesque factual scandals, journalist-cheered censorship, and an accelerating newsroom mania for political groupthink that was equal parts frightening and ridiculous.

by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com

Financial institutions must not be allowed to take crippling losses, even if those losses were the fault of the companies in question. The thinking of these experts changes, however, the instant the question shifts to aid to the common people. Suddenly we learn that resources are scarce.

by Chipit to /s/finance from taibbi.substack.com

Meet the Censored: Olivia Katbi-Smith. An activist for the Democratic Socialists of America talks about how arguments in favor of “banning hate speech” will end up being used against grassroots activists.

by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com

Twitter and Facebook suppressed a real story of legitimate public interest just before a presidential election. The fact that Big Tech blocked it, and professional journalists gleefully lied about it, has a direct bearing on YouTube’s decision now to bar Trumpist freakouts over the election results.

by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com

With Tanden Choice, Democrats Stick it to Sanders Voters. Every media figure with even a vague connection to Sanders learned in recent years to expect mud-drenched pushback from waves of “Neera trolls”. No name in blue politics is more associated with seething opposition to Sanders than Tanden.

by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com

Take the Biden Quiz. In the following sets of quotes, guess which is Biden, and which is Putin? Answers at bottom.

by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com

After advocating tirelessly for Big Tech censorship, the far left is shocked to find itself the victim of censorship. WSWS.org is so oldschool socialist that they think white and black workers can be on the same side, and that the 1619 Project "is a blatant falsification of the historical record."

by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com

Glenn Greenwald was forced to resign after writing a story criticizing both the Biden campaign and intelligence community — only to have it spiked by the editors of The Intercept, the news outlet he co-founded six years ago with the aim of preventing pretty much this exact situation.

by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com

Tape shows: ethically, CNN chief a little shaky

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from taibbi.substack.com

Don't Steal This Book - On "In Defense of Looting”

by [deleted] to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com

The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal, and mismanagement.

by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com

"Kansas should go F itself." The People, No documents the furious elite propaganda response to bottom-up political movements that has recurred in uncannily similar fashion at key moments across nearly a century and a half of American history, and is firing with particular venom today.

by Chipit to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com

The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here

by CompleteDoubterII to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com

The Left is Now the Right (NOTE: this does not speak of gender ideology at all actually, but a lot of the rhetoric the "left" uses regardless of topic is eerily similar)

by vitunrotta to /s/GenderCritical from taibbi.substack.com

The Left is Now the Right: We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing

by quipu to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com

Taibbi - Year Zero On America's birthday, celebrating the corporate-sponsored revolution

by brightlightbellend to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com

Taibbi - Year Zero: On America's birthday, celebrating the corporate-sponsored revolution

by brightlightbellend to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com

Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties, by Matt Taibbi. "Cases like this have turned erstwhile liberals – people who just a decade ago were marching in the streets over the civil liberties implications of Cheney’s War on Terror apparatus – into defenders of the spy state."

by Chipit to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com

Resetting the Bomb: Another era of debt-fueled profiteering is ending with a bailout. How we’re institutionalizing the unfairness economy

by salvia_d to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com

Resetting the Bomb: Another era of debt-fueled profiteering is ending with a bailout. How we’re institutionalizing the unfairness economy

by salvia_d to /s/WorldPolitics from taibbi.substack.com