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SubscribeSign inShare this postThe Sovietization of the American Presstaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailMar 12, 2021Share this postThe Sovietization of the American Presstaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailIzvestia’s Pravda Ogonyek Pravda Pravda Izvestia Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:— Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty — Champion of the middle class comes to the aid of the poor— Biden's historic victory for America Washington Post Forget that the “impregnable to parody” pol spent the last campaign year jamming fingers in the sternums of voters, challenging them to pushup contests, calling them “lying dog-faced pony soldiers,” and forgetting what state he was in. Biden, on the day Zoglin ran his piece, couldn’t remember the name of his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and referred to the Department of Defense as “that outfit over there”:Washington Post New York Times TimesTimes Manufacturing Consent The new, cleaved media landscape advances the same tiny intersection of elite opinion, except in the post-Trump era, that strip fits inside one party. Instead of appearing as props in a phony rendering of objectivity, Republicans in basically all non-Fox media have been moved off the legitimacy spectrum, and appear as foils only. Allowable opinion is now depicted stretching all the way from one brand of “moderate” Democrat to another.New York TimesThis format isn’t all that different from the one we had before, except in one respect: without the superficial requirement to tend to a two-party balance, the hagiography in big media organizations flies out of control. These companies already tend to wash out people who are too contentious or anti-establishment in their leanings. Promoted instead, as even Noam Chomsky described a generation ago, are people with the digestive systems of jackals or monitor lizards, who can swallow even the most toxic piles of official nonsense without blinking. Still, those reporters once had to at least pretend to be something other than courtiers, as it was considered unseemly to openly gush about a party or a politician.TimesThe new role as a crusader for the poor represents an evolution for Mr. Biden, who spent much of his 36 years in Congress concentrating on foreign policy, judicial fights, gun control, and criminal justice issues… Aides say he has embraced his new role… [and] has also been moved by the inequities in pain and suffering that the pandemic has inflicted on the poorest Americans…Pravda-Politico any New York Times Teen Vogue Daily Beast Times Times World Socialist Web Site. Like this postShare this postThe Sovietization of the American Presstaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmail1,130 CommentsFor your security, we need to re-authenticate you.Click the link we sent to , or .Expand full commentExpand full commentNo posts© 2022 Matt Taibbi ∙ ∙ &nbsp;is the home for great writingThis site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please or unblock scripts

SubscribeSign inShare this postThe Sovietization of the American Presstaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailMar 12, 2021Share this postThe Sovietization of the American Presstaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailIzvestia’s Pravda Ogonyek Pravda Pravda Izvestia Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:— Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty — Champion of the middle class comes to the aid of the poor— Biden's historic victory for America Washington Post Forget that the “impregnable to parody” pol...

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Matthew C. Taibbi (/taɪˈiːbi/; born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, author of several books, co-host of Useful Idiots, and publisher of a newsletter on Substack.

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