Matt Taibbi
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214 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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This is not journalism.
This is political entertainment, and it's therefore fundamentally unreliable.
With editors now more concerned with retaining audience than getting things right, lots of guardrails have been thrown out.
Silent edits have become common.
Serious accusations are made without calling people for comment.
Reporters get too cozy with politicians and report things either without attribution or source the unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Like scientists, journalists should be able to reproduce each other's work in the lab.
With too many anonymous sources, this is impossible.
We just get a lot of stuff wrong now.
In the Trump years, an extraordinary number of quote-unquote bombshells went sideways, from the P-tape to the Alpha service story to speculation that Trump was a Russian spy recruited before disco started to false reports of Russians hacking a Vermont utility.
We've accumulated piles of these wrong stories.
Now, I'm no fan of Donald Trump.
I wrote a book about the guy called Insane Clown President.
but these stories offend me.
A good journalist should always be ashamed of error, and it bothers me to see so many of my colleagues not ashamed.
News media shouldn't have a side.
It should focus on getting things right, which, believe me, is a hard enough job.
Until we get back to the basics, we don't deserve to be trusted, and we won't be.
Thank you very much.
Well, first of all, I think I should respond to Michelle, who simply misquoted me, proving my point.
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