Putin loves you; therefore, you love Putin. The enemy re-tweets you, therefore, you’re in league with the enemy. We’re at war with them, therefore we’re at war with you.One of the first rules of a shunning campaign is that it doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to be what everyone’s saying. Since most Americans went to high school, we tend to be instinctively familiar with the concept.The crazy inverse logic of the new national blacklist was on full display after special prosecutor in February. In the wake of this foreign meddling charge, CNN reporter Drew Griffin of an elderly female...…Putin loves you; therefore, you love Putin. The enemy re-tweets you, therefore, you’re in league with the enemy. We’re at war with them, therefore we’re at war with you.One of the first rules of a shunning campaign is that it doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to be what everyone’s saying. Since most Americans went to high school, we tend to be instinctively familiar with the concept.The crazy inverse logic of the new national blacklist was on full display after special prosecutor in February. In the wake of this foreign meddling charge, CNN reporter Drew Griffin of an elderly female...WW…

SubscribeSign inShare this postWe Need a New Media Systemtaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailJan 11, 2021Share this postWe Need a New Media Systemtaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailThe moment a group of people stormed the Capitol building last Wednesday, news companies began the process of sorting and commoditizing information that long ago became standard in American media.Media firms work backward. They first ask, “How does our target demographic want to understand what’s just unfolded?” Then they pick both the words and the facts they want to emphasize. Fox News...…SubscribeSign inShare this postWe Need a New Media Systemtaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailJan 11, 2021Share this postWe Need a New Media Systemtaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailThe moment a group of people stormed the Capitol building last Wednesday, news companies began the process of sorting and commoditizing information that long ago became standard in American media.Media firms work backward. They first ask, “How does our target demographic want to understand what’s just unfolded?” Then they pick both the words and the facts they want to emphasize. Fox News...WW…

We shouldn’t be asking to fix the problem. We should be fixing Facebook. It’s our collective misfortune that this perhaps silliest-in-history supercorporation – a tossed-off hookup site turned international cat-video vault turned Orwellian surveillance megavillain – has dragged us all to the very cliff edge of modern technological capitalism.We’ve reached a moment in history where many companies are more powerful than even major industrialized nations, and in some cases have essentially replaced governments as de facto regulators and overseers. But some of those companies suck just a little...…We shouldn’t be asking to fix the problem. We should be fixing Facebook. It’s our collective misfortune that this perhaps silliest-in-history supercorporation – a tossed-off hookup site turned international cat-video vault turned Orwellian surveillance megavillain – has dragged us all to the very cliff edge of modern technological capitalism.We’ve reached a moment in history where many companies are more powerful than even major industrialized nations, and in some cases have essentially replaced governments as de facto regulators and overseers. But some of those companies suck just a little...WW…

Last Wednesday, former adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton Paul Begala stepped out of his usual milquetoast centrist costume and made a chest-thumping pronouncement on CNN.“We were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power,” . “We should be debating how many sanctions we should place on , or whether we should blow up the KGB.”Begala’s is the latest in a string of comments from prominent pols and pundits  we are (or should be) in a state of war with nuclear-armed Russia.Former DNC chair Donna Brazile  this week, “The Communists are dictating the terms of the debate” – and not...…Last Wednesday, former adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton Paul Begala stepped out of his usual milquetoast centrist costume and made a chest-thumping pronouncement on CNN.“We were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power,” . “We should be debating how many sanctions we should place on , or whether we should blow up the KGB.”Begala’s is the latest in a string of comments from prominent pols and pundits  we are (or should be) in a state of war with nuclear-armed Russia.Former DNC chair Donna Brazile  this week, “The Communists are dictating the terms of the debate” – and not...WW…

SubscribeSign inShare this postThe War on Privacytaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailFeb 8, 2021Share this postThe War on Privacytaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailNew York Times — Lorenz was wrong on three counts. One, Andreesson never said the word. Two, the person who did say the word was merely relaying that the Reddit users betting on GameStop “call themselves the ‘retard revolution.’” Lorenz was confusing reporting on speech with actually speaking, the same error that’s led to crackdowns on videographers like Jon Farina and Ford Fischer, punished for shooting...…SubscribeSign inShare this postThe War on Privacytaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailFeb 8, 2021Share this postThe War on Privacytaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailNew York Times — Lorenz was wrong on three counts. One, Andreesson never said the word. Two, the person who did say the word was merely relaying that the Reddit users betting on GameStop “call themselves the ‘retard revolution.’” Lorenz was confusing reporting on speech with actually speaking, the same error that’s led to crackdowns on videographers like Jon Farina and Ford Fischer, punished for shooting...WW…

SubscribeSign inShare this postIn Defense Of Substacktaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailMar 1, 2021Share this postIn Defense Of Substacktaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailThe main thread:Roberts is making a “stolen valor” argument. As it’s abundantly clear she’s talking about people like myself and Greenwald in particular, she’s arguing that we made our names as reporters in the structure of traditional newsrooms, taking advantage of “norms and practices” like fact-checking and editing that, in her mind, is what first induced readers to trust us. Then we took that...…SubscribeSign inShare this postIn Defense Of Substacktaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailMar 1, 2021Share this postIn Defense Of Substacktaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailThe main thread:Roberts is making a “stolen valor” argument. As it’s abundantly clear she’s talking about people like myself and Greenwald in particular, she’s arguing that we made our names as reporters in the structure of traditional newsrooms, taking advantage of “norms and practices” like fact-checking and editing that, in her mind, is what first induced readers to trust us. Then we took that...WW…

SubscribeSign inShare this postA Biden Appointee's Troubling Views On The First Amendmenttaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailMar 23, 2021Share this postA Biden Appointee's Troubling Views On The First Amendmenttaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailWired Marketwatch Project Syndicate .” The Godfather, If you hear a “but…” coming in his rhetoric, you guessed right. He does imagine something better. The Cliff’s Notes version of Wu’s thesis: — As a result, those who place faith in the First Amendment to solve speech dilemmas should “admit defeat” and imagine new solutions...…SubscribeSign inShare this postA Biden Appointee's Troubling Views On The First Amendmenttaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailMar 23, 2021Share this postA Biden Appointee's Troubling Views On The First Amendmenttaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailWired Marketwatch Project Syndicate .” The Godfather, If you hear a “but…” coming in his rhetoric, you guessed right. He does imagine something better. The Cliff’s Notes version of Wu’s thesis: — As a result, those who place faith in the First Amendment to solve speech dilemmas should “admit defeat” and imagine new solutions...WW…

SubscribeSign inShare this postThe Echo Chamber Erataibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailJan 22, 2021Share this postThe Echo Chamber Erataibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailAxios Axios Still, 57% of half your potential audience is nothing to brag about, when you’re in the trust business. Other numbers, like 56% of respondents believing journalists are “purposely trying to mislead people,” or 58% thinking that “most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology… than with informing the public" are more ominous. Washington Post, Post’s Politico’s The...…SubscribeSign inShare this postThe Echo Chamber Erataibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailJan 22, 2021Share this postThe Echo Chamber Erataibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailAxios Axios Still, 57% of half your potential audience is nothing to brag about, when you’re in the trust business. Other numbers, like 56% of respondents believing journalists are “purposely trying to mislead people,” or 58% thinking that “most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology… than with informing the public" are more ominous. Washington Post, Post’s Politico’s The...WW…

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...…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...WW…

SubscribeSign inShare this postMeet the Censored: Status Couptaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailJan 27, 2021Share this postMeet the Censored: Status Couptaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailStatus CoupUSA TodayGuardian, the Wall Street JournalNew York Post, Daily Mail,Status Coup Washington Post Members of the National Guard are on standby. Plywood covers the windows of the State Capitol. Tall metal barricades surround Capitol Square, with police vehicles idling on pathways just inside locked pedestrian gates. Downtown streets will be closed; signs warning against...…SubscribeSign inShare this postMeet the Censored: Status Couptaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailJan 27, 2021Share this postMeet the Censored: Status Couptaibbi.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailStatus CoupUSA TodayGuardian, the Wall Street JournalNew York Post, Daily Mail,Status Coup Washington Post Members of the National Guard are on standby. Plywood covers the windows of the State Capitol. Tall metal barricades surround Capitol Square, with police vehicles idling on pathways just inside locked pedestrian gates. Downtown streets will be closed; signs warning against...WW…