Matt Taibbi
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319 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Matt Taibbi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The first, second, and third things that you worried about was, what will happen if I get this wrong?
This could end my career.
This could lead to a lawsuit.
All kinds of problems could happen.
Now it's become incredibly common for newspapers to make mistakes and either not own up to it at all, not issue a correction, not issue an explanation.
or simply give an explanation, make a correction, and have there be no consequences for it whatsoever.
People make mistakes and nothing happens now, which is sort of an extraordinary thing.
Think of all the people in the WMD episode who got things wrong and were promoted as a result of it.
And this is how that happens.
So I'm sorry.
This is fascinating.
Like.
That's a huge story.
It would take more than a little bit to get that on air in a normal situation.
You'd have to double, triple check it.
The editors would demand certain steps be taken.
But it sounds like she went from hearing that or allegedly hearing that to going on air with it relatively quickly.
That is a literally unbelievable thing for an experienced media reporter, which Paul Farhi is.
I mean, I was briefly away from Rolling Stone when they made the error that
nearly destroyed the entire organization you know the uva rape story uh you know some of my my favorite people were caught up in that disaster people you know i i'd known for years and um it was universally accepted in the media business that it was um
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