Matt Taibbi
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214 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Matt Taibbi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're a writer when you're a journalist and people don't trust you.
It's always your fault.
Be it resolved, don't trust mainstream media.
My name is Matt Taibbi.
I've been a reporter for 30 years, and I argue for the resolution.
You should not trust mainstream media.
I grew up in the press.
My father was a reporter.
My stepmother was a reporter.
My godparents were reporters.
Basically, every adult I knew growing up was a reporter.
So I actually love the news business, but I mourn for it.
It's destroyed itself by getting away from its basic function, which is just to tell us what's happening.
My father had a saying, the story's the boss.
In the American context, this means that if the facts tell you the Republicans were the villains in a political disaster, then you write it that way.
If the facts point more to the Democrats, you write that.
If they're both culpable, as was often the case for me when I investigated Wall Street for almost 10 years after the 2008 crash, you write the story that way.
We're not supposed to thumb the scale.
Our job is just to call things as we see them and leave the rest up to you.
But we don't do that now.
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