Matt Taibbi is writing a new book
Matt Taibbi's new nascent book-in-writing is going to out-Chomsky the "Manufacturing Consent". I read a few installments... Whoa. An eye-opening experience!

Taibbi is wholly on the left of the political spectrum, but not on the extreme, "delusional" left side. He's had decades of experience as a mainstream journalist, https://taibbi.substack.com/p/introduction-the-fairway and he unpacks it all.

Some quotations:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/chapter-1-part-ii-the-ten-rules-of

The easiest media product to make is called, This Bad Thing That Just Happened Is Someone Else’s Fault. It has a virtually limitless market.
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To make money, we’ve had to train audiences to consume news in a certain way. We need you anxious, pre-pissed, addicted to conflict. Moreover we need you to bring a series of assumptions every time you open a paper or turn on your phone, TV, or car radio. Without them, most of what we produce will seem illogical and offensive.

The trick is to constantly narrow your mental horizons and keep you geeked up on impotent anger.


Resist! Stop reading them.