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Former hero of mainstream journalism no longer fits in with mainstream journalism so of course it’s destroying itself. Perhaps Matt Taibbi is used to being a v

Former hero of mainstream journalism no longer fits in with mainstream journalism so of course it’s destroying itself. Perhaps Matt Taibbi is used to being a visibly elite journalist who isn’t on board with a new status quo that won’t benefit him the same. People are sick of yesterday’s politics and looking to remake things. The media is always going on about it’s important role in our political system. It needs a good kick in the ass. Post post modernism has us deconstructing post modernism. No more believing we’re just detached observers living on rails. We aren’t feeling obligated to saying grandpa and grandma and are searching for a new normal from bottom up, as too many are facing existential entropy given the status quo. Taibbi is ‘fraid that what was familiar is no more. Good. That means journalism is being disrupted in a real way. It’s not if it’s just feeling normal to the old experts. Our social institutions may really be changing.

chottocharaii 6y ago
Tying all reporting of facts to a need to push virtuous political narratives is braindead. By the way, Taibbi is doing fine, financially. So I hardly think this is a grudge article.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > By the way, Taibbi is doing fine, financially. So I hardly think this is a grudge article. Just because he's doing fine financially doesn't mean he hasn't lost status, and he’s well into the financial range where more or less of that unlessnit radically changes station is essentially meaningless, but status and acclaim often remain quite meaningful.
sinker 6y ago
Who's "we" in this case? Not everyone is on board with the new left who condemn at whim well meaning people who don't follow the temperamental and shallow whims of "wokeness." Free speech and thought are oppressed and people who don't follow the line have their names plastered online and their jobs taken away. Taking offense has somehow become a form of coherent argument. Social media has become a tool to foremost ridicule and destroy people's reputation. Not everyone on the "left" is on board with this. There's still a large number of us who respect reason, intelligence, civil discourse, liberty. We just don't appear to have a candidate who represents us, or a late night talk show that represents us, because our stances are not principally rooted as being in opposition to other entities. There are a few journalists and voices that still speak and write foremost with respect to reason and in accordance to reality, but the current social and political climate is so inflammatory that this becomes difficult. People like us exist, our existence is just not expressed majorly in media or social media.
jkingsbery 6y ago
This all might be true, but is ad hominem... what facts did Taibbi get wrong or shade unfairly in his piece?

chottocharaii 6y ago

Tying all reporting of facts to a need to push virtuous political narratives is braindead. By the way, Taibbi is doing fine, financially. So I hardly think this is a grudge article.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> By the way, Taibbi is doing fine, financially. So I hardly think this is a grudge article. Just because he's doing fine financially doesn't mean he hasn't lost status, and he’s well into the financial range where more or less of that unlessnit radically changes station is essentially meaningless, but status and acclaim often remain quite meaningful.

sinker 6y ago

Who's "we" in this case? Not everyone is on board with the new left who condemn at whim well meaning people who don't follow the temperamental and shallow whims of "wokeness." Free speech and thought are oppressed and people who don't follow the line have their names plastered online and their jobs taken away. Taking offense has somehow become a form of coherent argument. Social media has become a tool to foremost ridicule and destroy people's reputation. Not everyone on the "left" is on board with this. There's still a large number of us who respect reason, intelligence, civil discourse, liberty. We just don't appear to have a candidate who represents us, or a late night talk show that represents us, because our stances are not principally rooted as being in opposition to other entities. There are a few journalists and voices that still speak and write foremost with respect to reason and in accordance to reality, but the current social and political climate is so inflammatory that this becomes difficult. People like us exist, our existence is just not expressed majorly in media or social media.

jkingsbery 6y ago

This all might be true, but is ad hominem... what facts did Taibbi get wrong or shade unfairly in his piece?