03-25-2019, 02:36 PM
(03-25-2019, 08:59 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I am, and will remain, a proponent of investigative journalism. Of good journalism. It does still exist out there with some of the writers doing their thing. One of the journalists I like to read a lot is Matt Taibbi. Some of you may know him. He wrote the book I Can't Breathe about Eric Garner specifically, but community policing and excessive force more broadly. He has been writing a serial book called Hate Inc. which is a biut of an indictment on the current media landscape. This is a snippet from the introduction:
I just started reading this from Taibbi over the weekend, but this sentiment is one of the reasons you have seen me state that I follow journalists online, not their outlets. Anyway, the reason for me bringing this all up is because Taibbi made a post on Saturday that was a little earlier than he was planning, but the timing of everything was too good. In this post, he discusses the media's failings with their reporting on Russiagate. I encourage you to check it out, and the rest of the public posts he has out there, if you have the time.
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD
Excellent article, thank you for posting it. It expresses my exact thoughts on this issue, which may be a reason I like it so much.