Matt Taibbi

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it was fun how u cld tell they were just hanging around drinking waiting to be fired

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link

tbh anytime i read about racket the vision seemed really muddy and unclear to me, like they weren't even sure what it was supposed to be, so i can't say i'm shocked that it didn't really work out

i'm happy that pareene has been liberated though, assuming someone snaps him up quickly. he's one of the best politics writers, it sucked not hearing from him for half a year or whatever.

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 November 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link

except for when he filled in for andrew sullivan lol

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

“The whole site is a reaction to the clickbait, robotic, aggregating direction to journalism that’s the direction everything’s going on the Internet. We want readers to feel like everything they see on the site was the creation of an individual human being,” said Taibbi. A big part of that was going to be an emphasis on voice. The Racket was going to reject the dry, third-person style of the traditional media for strongly opinionated writing that, rather attempting to hide its biases, would flaunt them. It would be a way to connect with the audience and even drive its own reporting.

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link

Man, this site would have been pretty fun, at least.

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link

The Intercept is actually really good though. The dry third person style of traditional media is being avoided every day.

Vic Perry, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:02 (nine years ago) link

wanna read those outsourced tom friedman columns

celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link

yeah i'm kinda gutted now tbh. friedman gag so otm.

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link

not sure where on the internet to turn for my strongly voiced opinon writing that, rather attempting to hide its biases, would flaunt them now

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:47 (nine years ago) link

so you're saying... pareene was a mole and denton blew them up from the inside

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:51 (nine years ago) link

its all connected

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link

there were some very funny ideas in that piece and i def wldve liked to see what racket cld do cause they had some cool ppl on staff even if reading two consecutive matt taibbi sentences is painful for me, but having voice and being opinionated and hating clickbait are not really anything that sets you apart from a lot of people on the net

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link

tho they did seem like they were prepared to ratchet up the obnoxiousness to rarified heights lol buying franklin foer twitter follower

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:54 (nine years ago) link

tho im not sure if any of those funny ideas wldve been good for anything past the initial joke

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link

its really too bad they didnt just give it to pareene and edith zimmerman after taibbi left that wldve been the best possible outcome

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link

tbh i would give them all my lunch money to just troll friedman, brooks, and dowd every week

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:59 (nine years ago) link

wld be cool to be all we are launching this exciting new journalism project that will have high quality content and also be sort of prankish but then its 100% pranks

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 06:01 (nine years ago) link

i will crowdfund u

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link

cool ty

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link

glad to see some good come of all this

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link

amen

lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link

“We also have an idea we’re calling Apartment 538, a Facebook community of people who look like Nate Silver, and we’re just going to poll them on things,” said Taibbi. “Instead of having a Nate Silver-produced poll we’re just going to poll 87 people who look like Nate Silver.”

Jesus, I wish this had happened.

Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 08:18 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

So now NVC & KS have both left after having pt.2 of their Serial interview held back for a week

ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 23 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link

lol I was hoping never to think about that Serial thing again

walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 23 February 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link

the guy omidyar like why did he even want to do this

lag∞n, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link

Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein has resigned from First Look Media’s The Intercept after 14 months, saying he and others were hired “under what were essentially false pretenses [by being] told we would be given all the financial and other support we needed to do independent, important journalism, but instead found ourselves blocked at every step of the way by management’s incompetence and bad faith.”

independent, important journalism = pt.2 of a Serial interview?

Mordy, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link

xp spectacular conceit. just a guess tho.

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link

i mean cry me a river about 19th-rate-hunter-thompson-misogynist-half-smart-at-best-brodude poor beleaguered paragon of integrity matt taibbi being forced out of any job, but damn this sounds like a shit place to work

slothroprhymes, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link

something potentially beneficial about this kerfuffle is that, after "accidentally" sitting out the 2014 midterms, say taibbi and pareene have platforms in time, they might come out guns blazing at bush the younger and/or "not that" scott walker or whoever the GOP ticket is. not to be partisan

reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 23 February 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link

three months pass...
six months pass...

This is a good (and maddening) summary of the attempts to try and figure out what happened on the Garner grand jury:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/a-year-later-the-eric-garner-grand-jury-decision-still-stings-20151203

schwantz, Friday, 4 December 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link

two months pass...

ON TRUMP:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224

Long article, worth reading if you like feeling a creeping horror and bile rising in your throat.

Mongolian Cow Yoghurt Supergirl (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 February 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link

there are some good grafs in there but was it edited? by anyone? it reads at times like someone cut all the grafs out and shook them up in a hat and started laying them down one after the other at random.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 February 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link

I had to skim it. Tracer OTM, it gets close to free association at points. Possibly from listening to too much Trump.

Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Sunday, 28 February 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link

The number of predictable "he's got a real shot at this you guys" pieces between now and September is going to get really mind-numbing

Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Sunday, 28 February 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link

gonzo writing sort of falls down when everyone already gets how nutty everything is.

Option ARMs and de Man (s.clover), Sunday, 28 February 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

on how the NYT gutted their 'positive' Sanders profile online

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315?page=2

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link

interesting

curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link

two months pass...

it's about time someone with (successful parents) a voice spelled it out ~

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-isnt-the-campaign-medias-first-mistake-20160519?page=3

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 May 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link

i think he gives the media too much credit. it's not like they were tricking americans into voting for these plutocrats. america elected reagan twice and liked it so much they elected his vp too. donald trump is a strange aberration and taibbi's "you should've seen it all along" is v self-congratulatory. now it makes sense to me that ppl should vote in their self-interest, but they didn't do that for so long that thomas frank wrote an entire book on the topic. taibbi understands the self-interest part but he has no explanation for why now.

Mordy, Friday, 20 May 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link

whenever i read this guy's name all i can think of is how fucked up and misogynistic the eXile was

Treeship, Friday, 20 May 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link

i don't think he's giving the media credit so much as admitting their class bias is so steep few up top can see what's going on down below where the majority of america (without successful parents) scrambles to survive: "The tone of American political coverage for some time hasn't matched the reality of what voters have been going through. Even as America lost its manufacturing base and tens of millions of people were put out of good jobs, the campaign story for years remained the same weirdly celebratory soap opera." it's not the media who sets reagan, bush, bush, romney, and trump up to run; the (increasingly privileged) media is too class-blind to point out the plutocratic BS is his thesis i think

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reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 May 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link

whenever i read this guy's name all i can think of is how fucked up and misogynistic the eXile was

I think the dude grew up, it happens sometimes.

You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 21 May 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link

i'm not saying it should be held against him, really. i just have a hard time looking past it personally. it's not like he was sixteen years old in those days he was like, the age i am now.

Treeship, Saturday, 21 May 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link

i also realize mark ames was worse than taibbi

Treeship, Saturday, 21 May 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

except regular posters here don't want to hear that i'd bet

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 June 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link

or know it already

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 June 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link


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