Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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Author of INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT, I CAN’T BREATHE, SPANKING THE DONKEY, and SMELLS LIKE DEAD ELEPHANTS
New Jersey, USA
Joined May 2009
I was very against the Parlor thing.
@mtaibbi I listened to many of your interviews and know what you are going to say, but for discussion: “does the government have the same legal free speech to ask Apple to pull the app down?” Curious also how you fell about the successful killing of “Parlor”.
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They're both legal in the same way.
@mtaibbi Hey Matt. The radar app and the ice block app are like comparing apples and hubcaps.
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I have repeatedly done that and literally just did again, like minutes before you posted this.
@ayeshadequeiroz @mtaibbi and trump is actively censoring or trying to censor media and social media, but taibbi has nothing to say
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You can't bar people from reporting what they see. We don't have that even with the most extreme national security issues - no equivalent to the D Notice in Britain, for instance, and even that is technically voluntary.
@mtaibbi Telling people to slow down or get caught is different from "Hey they're over here, harass them". I mean we could leave it up, arrest a bunch of retards, then pray the prison system isn't overloaded, but I personally think thats counter intuitive. Do you have a different idea?
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The ICEBlock case in which Pam Bondi said the DOJ "reached out to Apple and demanded" they remove the app is, yes, the same kind of jawboning issue we saw in the Twitter Files. It's legal, protected speech, just like speed-trap apps like iRadar https://t.co/qXmBVb6Y5G
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The developer of ICEBlock, which notifies users of ICE agent sightings, said Attorney General Pam Bondi censored his free speech.
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Listen to This Article: Insane Clown Pentagon Its critics may be hypocrites, but the Trump administration has created a massive mess for itself with its Venezuelan boat-bombings https://t.co/FN7MfchrzW
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Lol
According to a recent survey, the percentage of college students who listen to NPR is now 2 percent, down from 40 percent two decades ago. The sudden cascade toward relentless race and gender propaganda that the network underwent in the mid 2010's was justified by referencing
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Hired by whom? The only pay I get is from subscribers on Substack. I don’t have “shadowy” income sources, no sponsors, no investors, nothing.
@mtaibbi What *style* is one coming from when their convictions are for hire? Is that the “new journalism” you reference when shadowy elites get journalists to carry their water for a pittance?
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Lol my bad, I’ll jump down your throat next time
@mtaibbi C'mon Matt, this is Twitter. You jump on me for not reading it the way you intended. You don't say it was "poorly worded".
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Poorly worded. I meant the personal feelings of journalists were generally obscure. At least, their opinions/feelings weren’t what added value.
"The problem with this is that until about ten years ago, journalists were supposed to be obscure." Dan Rather Mike Wallace Sam Donaldson Woodward & Bernstein Until about ten years ago?
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I do. It’s why I chose the “New Journalism” style, the main benefit of which is helping audiences know where the reporter is coming from. But I always thought that style works best in concert with traditional objective reporting - both approaches are valid.
@mtaibbi Don't you see any good in knowing a writer's politics? Even fact based articles can be misleading (e.g. only presenting certain facts). Knowing a writer's biases could help an audience. Also, if that author presents the facts of the other side fairly, that could build good faith.
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Have no idea what you’re talking about, but it’s amusing
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Literally never said a word in support of Israel, and I have criticized its speech policies. Also you have no idea what his thoughts on any of those subjects are.
@mtaibbi Your father he would be appalled at you becoming a mouth piece for Israel, and the suppression of free speech on behalf of Israel
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Maybe you’d say that privately, but there was no forum beyond the op-ed page for saying it publicly. My father only wrote two editorials in 50 years. It was a discipline, to help audiences be more receptive to the facts in their reports.
Disagree. If I am an award winning journalist of 40 years I will adamantly say no men in women's spaces. Just as I would defend gay marriage. There are many issues that are simply black and white. It's not rocket science.
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Absolutely the original reason for public neutrality of reporters was to make it easier to sell ads, but there was also an ethos of being loyal to fact over ideology. If a Senator was caught in bed with a farm animal, most reporters didn’t care what party the Senator represented.
@mtaibbi I think that was the marketing angle for that profession but that it wasn't really so in practice.
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