Matt Taibbi
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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you know, directs them, the Department of Justice, to come up with a comprehensive review of all the censorship stuff. So we're going to find out about that. But I just think COVID is a gigantic rat's nest of stuff. And, you know, it's going to be like a turkey shoot where every direction they look, they're going to find something, you know, revelatory.
See, I think we do because I think that what we think of as the media is dead. They no longer really matter. The media that matters now are people like you and Joe Rogan and other, you know, there's podcasters out there. There's this gigantic, thriving, independent media culture that turned the last election, clearly. It was also abundantly clear that the old media
no longer had any ability to control the narrative about anything. They're totally discredited. So I think this stuff is going to come out and because it's going to be so explosive, it's going to sort of solidify and heighten the prestige of all this new media. I think we're probably going to see whole institutions that are going to be built around these disclosures.
We're going to have new newspapers, new TV stations.
Oh, thanks. No, I'm at racket.news on Substack where a lot of these news sites are. For those who didn't grow up playing squash, how are you spelling racket? R-A-C-K-E-T dot news.
Not squash racket, like racket, like that's a racket, which this is. Yes. It turned out to be aptly named. Nice. But yeah, no, I'm feeling very optimistic now. I think...
uh there's there are still some holes in this new media landscape we don't have the huge institutions that have reporters who have beats which i think is crucial right uh because you need to have people who develop sources in one small area and but you saw that with julie kelly
No, it's great. It's incredible. And that's exactly how the press is supposed to function. They're not supposed to be credentialed. Like, it's not supposed to be a thing where... Somebody confers a title, you are the official media. No, the citizen, that's part of our job is to be the press, right? That's why the First Amendment was designed for exactly for that to happen.
And there was lots of incredible reporting that was done. By either individuals or small organizations like the U.S. Right to Know. They filed hundreds of FOIA requests on Fauci and gain of function and everything. And they really started the ball rolling on that whole side of that investigation. It's a relatively small site. And they had good young reporters there who were hungry.
And that's how this thing works, you know? Amazing. Right?
Right. Which is important. And that's also how it's supposed to work. I remember hearing a story about I.F. Stone. When I was starting on Substack, I was calling around to some of the old-timers and saying, like, is this a good idea for me to tap out of mainstream media? And they told me a story. And they said, you know, I.F. Stone cranked out a newsletter.
For those people who don't know, he was a... Izzy Stone. Izzy Stone, he was one of the original independent investigative journalists. He worked out of his house. He put out this little newsletter, the IF Stone Weekly. It was great reporting, independent, didn't have to answer to editors who told him to shape things one way or the other.
And he made a nice living, got himself a nice little house, and that was enough, right? And he had an impact. And you can do that now. The internet makes it easier, actually. Yeah. It's amazing.
Yeah.
Yes, yes, but it'll be like, I mean, hopefully it'll be like the church committee hearings where, look, we just have to accept people are going to have their minds blown by discoveries, revelations. For instance, it's already starting in the news media. We're starting to get stories from journalists who are told they had to suppress certain angles, right? You know, there was a...
Politico story about some people who were told to stay away from the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Right, exactly. And my first question is, why didn't you say that when it happened? But I guess people have jobs, right? So that's a thing. But there are going to be a lot more of those. I mean, there are already kind of whispers going around. But Because people are going to learn that institutions they believed in their whole lives were fraudulent, that they lied to them about important things.
And it's going to be difficult at first, especially since there are not solid new institutions in place to replace them. You know, it's one thing if you're taking down the CIA in the 70s and there's a supposedly reformed CIA there, right? This is different. The media is going to have to rebuild itself from the ground up.
I think it's already doing great, but it doesn't have that look for a lot of people, right? No, that's right. It looks very different, for sure. And so, you know, it's going to be, I think that's a good point. It's a transitional period for people.
Like, you know, you've got a lot to lose. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And people in the intelligence agencies whose names are not known to the public, they're about to be. Exactly. And, you know, we don't know what that's going to result in. Right. what impact that's going to have.
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