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Elon Musk takes over Twitter

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Alma, Apr 25, 2022.

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  1. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member


    That said, what weakened over the years was the magazine's editorial apparatus.

    Resulting in the Erdely / UVA disaster.

    Taibbi got away with a lot because there were fewer and less rigorous editorial checks in place during his tenure there.

    Now, like Weiss and Greenwald and Shellenberger and others, he's twitter-filing and substacking with no editorial oversight or fact-checking of any kind.

    That he got pantsed for it on live TV was inevitable.
     
    Azrael, Apr 7, 2023
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  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I don't mind the editoralizing. It's what Rolling Stone was. I liked a lot of what the other writers you are mentioning did. They had a point of view, but they were straighforward about the fact that they did, and how they went about it.

    I put Taibbi into a different category. I always really minded how fast and loose he would play with facts, and the specious leaps he'd make to connect things to fit whatever preestablished narrative he was beginning with. There was a flat-out dishonesty to some of the "reporting" he would do, and because he was adept enough to obfuscate the factual dishonesty while turning a phrase (he's really good with words), people who wanted to believe whatever he was selling would eat his nonsense up.
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 7, 2023
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  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Twitter has now turned off the ability to post or RT Substack links. You know, the site where Taibbi posts.
     
    Inky_Wretch, Apr 7, 2023
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  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Azrael, Apr 7, 2023
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  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The Big Ragu, Apr 7, 2023
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  6. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member


     
    Azrael, Apr 7, 2023
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  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Taibbi's piece linked above is whataboutism at its finest. Well-written too.
     
    Songbird, Apr 7, 2023
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  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Good to know what Malcolm Nance was tweeting in 2016.

    Taibbi would be better off if he stopped tweeting entirely and devoted himself to building some sort of legitimate factcheck / editing apparatus for his own twitterfiles / substack.

    As it is, his unimpeachable snowflake bullshit makes my job harder.
     
    Azrael, Apr 7, 2023
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  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    also

     
    Azrael, Apr 7, 2023
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  10. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Scuttlebutt is that Substack is going to offer "short" posting capability soon, as a kind of exploration to take over some of Twitter's market space. Of course, banning Substack links means Twitter is giving them the Streisand effect bump, but hey!
     
    sgreenwell, Apr 7, 2023
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  11. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    Journalism has lost a lot of people to PR work. Taibbi is just the latest.

    PR for Musk seems like a terrible choice, and Taibbi did a really, really bad job of it.
     
    Deskgrunt50, Apr 7, 2023
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  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

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    Azrael, Apr 7, 2023
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