Matt Taibbi

A few, but, you know, the ones that I'm still in touch with mostly have been kind of squeezed out. You know, there are people who did try to get to the bottom of what happened. I mean, Cy Hirsch did a story about... The mechanics of how it got to be went from Biden to Kamala. And, you know, that story came out on Substack, but it wasn't picked up anywhere.

And that's kind of the way the media works.

And that's kind of the way the media works.

And that's kind of the way the media works.

I think it's very notable that a lot of the high-profile investigative reporters just can't even publish in the United States. And look at somebody like Jeff Gerth, who made a point of kind of keeping ties to traditional media and not burning bridges and doing all that stuff. and worked his butt off to get this 24,000-word piece about Russiagate into the Columbia Journalism Review.

I think it's very notable that a lot of the high-profile investigative reporters just can't even publish in the United States. And look at somebody like Jeff Gerth, who made a point of kind of keeping ties to traditional media and not burning bridges and doing all that stuff. and worked his butt off to get this 24,000-word piece about Russiagate into the Columbia Journalism Review.

I think it's very notable that a lot of the high-profile investigative reporters just can't even publish in the United States. And look at somebody like Jeff Gerth, who made a point of kind of keeping ties to traditional media and not burning bridges and doing all that stuff. and worked his butt off to get this 24,000-word piece about Russiagate into the Columbia Journalism Review.

And it should have landed hard. It should have landed like a Mike Tyson uppercut, you know? And people just ignored it. So even when they don't kick you out of the club, they just ignore the hardcore reporting.

And it should have landed hard. It should have landed like a Mike Tyson uppercut, you know? And people just ignored it. So even when they don't kick you out of the club, they just ignore the hardcore reporting.

And it should have landed hard. It should have landed like a Mike Tyson uppercut, you know? And people just ignored it. So even when they don't kick you out of the club, they just ignore the hardcore reporting.

Big deal guy for many, many years. He was the bulldog going after the Clinton administration on everything. Right. So, I mean, when he did a story, it mattered. It was on the desk of every senator in the country. Of course. You know, and now. That's what's so interesting about this period is that there is none of that.

Big deal guy for many, many years. He was the bulldog going after the Clinton administration on everything. Right. So, I mean, when he did a story, it mattered. It was on the desk of every senator in the country. Of course. You know, and now. That's what's so interesting about this period is that there is none of that.

Big deal guy for many, many years. He was the bulldog going after the Clinton administration on everything. Right. So, I mean, when he did a story, it mattered. It was on the desk of every senator in the country. Of course. You know, and now. That's what's so interesting about this period is that there is none of that.

The stuff that lands on the desks of people in the relevant committees in Washington is PR. There's no reporting there for the most part. Maybe that will change now. I don't know. But I doubt it. People read your stuff.

The stuff that lands on the desks of people in the relevant committees in Washington is PR. There's no reporting there for the most part. Maybe that will change now. I don't know. But I doubt it. People read your stuff.

The stuff that lands on the desks of people in the relevant committees in Washington is PR. There's no reporting there for the most part. Maybe that will change now. I don't know. But I doubt it. People read your stuff.

I mean, we know that there's five or six shifting official explanations of what happened. They eventually settled on this kind of labyrinthine... The story about a rogue Ukrainian operation that apparently without our input went and did this. Yeah, I don't believe it. I mean, it's laughable to think that that's true. But that's the kind of... Nord Stream is just one.

I mean, we know that there's five or six shifting official explanations of what happened. They eventually settled on this kind of labyrinthine... The story about a rogue Ukrainian operation that apparently without our input went and did this. Yeah, I don't believe it. I mean, it's laughable to think that that's true. But that's the kind of... Nord Stream is just one.

I mean, we know that there's five or six shifting official explanations of what happened. They eventually settled on this kind of labyrinthine... The story about a rogue Ukrainian operation that apparently without our input went and did this. Yeah, I don't believe it. I mean, it's laughable to think that that's true. But that's the kind of... Nord Stream is just one.

It's like looking up at the stars in the sky. That's just one of them. And that's a huge story. I mean, think about it.