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UNI88 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:50 am Jim Jordan Demands IRS Explain Unannounced Visit to Matt Taibbi’s Home

Federal agents were dispatched to Taibbi’s residence the very same day that the investigative journalist appeared before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, also chaired by Representative Jordan.
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Plaskett derided Taibbi as a “so-called journalist” and repeatedly insisted that there was no “real evidence” publicized in the Twitter Files showing coordination between the federal government and the social-media platform.

“Ranking Member Plaskett, I’m not a so-called journalist,” Taibbi countered. “I’ve won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and I’ve written ten books, including four New York Times best sellers.”
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“Being a Republican witness today certainly casts a cloud over your objectivity.”
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Just ahead of testifying, Taibbi released a new installment of the Twitter Files revealing that the social-media company had established a “Censorship-Industrial Complex” whereby agencies such as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and NGOs including the Atlantic Council and National Endowment for Democracy regularly consulted with the social-media platform in an effort to censor or downplay posts they found objectionable.

Winterborn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 4:48 am You get what you want to see.

kalm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 6:07 am

Winterborn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 4:48 am You get what you want to see.

At least Taibbi semi-admits he’s wrong about some things. What did you see?

kalm wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:48 pm Absolute beat down of Taibbi here.

GannonFan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 6:32 am

kalm wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:48 pm Absolute beat down of Taibbi here.

Why can't the Twitter files dump be both an unsavory example of government censorship and an Elon Musk score settling at the same time? Why is it either/or?

kalm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:06 am

GannonFan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 6:32 am

Why can't the Twitter files dump be both an unsavory example of government censorship and an Elon Musk score settling at the same time? Why is it either/or?

That’s exactly what it should be. Which is why it’s important for the journalist to not leave a shred of doubt through his reporting.

kalm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:06 am

GannonFan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 6:32 am
Why can't the Twitter files dump be both an unsavory example of government censorship and an Elon Musk score settling at the same time? Why is it either/or?

That’s exactly what it should be. Which is why it’s important for the journalist to not leave a shred of doubt through his reporting.

Winterborn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 9:07 am

kalm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:06 am

That’s exactly what it should be. Which is why it’s important for the journalist to not leave a shred of doubt through his reporting.

Which I think Tabbi is doing (I have read most of what he has put out and his blog). He is giving the best he can and asking for constructive public discourse. What the MSNBC host was doing was not that. And stating it was a "beat down" is disingenuous (in the past you have claimed not to have paid much attention at all to the releases, so I am struggling how you can gauge the releases and their standing along with what the authors of the releases are trying to convey) and contributes to the same partisan environment we currently have.

Tabbi should be rightly held to that higher standard but so should every other news organization. Taking the high road starts with us as individuals. Language/words are used to convey meaning, which is an insight into the minds that use it by readers of that message.

kalm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 9:15 am

Winterborn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 9:07 am

Which I think Tabbi is doing (I have read most of what he has put out and his blog). He is giving the best he can and asking for constructive public discourse. What the MSNBC host was doing was not that. And stating it was a "beat down" is disingenuous (in the past you have claimed not to have paid much attention at all to the releases, so I am struggling how you can gauge the releases and their standing along with what the authors of the releases are trying to convey) and contributes to the same partisan environment we currently have.

Tabbi should be rightly held to that higher standard but so should every other news organization. Taking the high road starts with us as individuals. Language/words are used to convey meaning, which is an insight into the minds that use it by readers of that message.

Ok…not a beat down. Taibbi wasn’t prepared for questions he should have seen coming.

I read the first few releases and quit. This exchange was not at all surprising given what I had already read.

Winterborn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 9:07 am

kalm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:06 am

That’s exactly what it should be. Which is why it’s important for the journalist to not leave a shred of doubt through his reporting.

Which I think Tabbi is doing (I have read most of what he has put out and his blog). He is giving the best he can and asking for constructive public discourse. What the MSNBC host was doing was not that. And stating it was a "beat down" is disingenuous (in the past you have claimed not to have paid much attention at all to the releases, so I am struggling how you can gauge the releases and their standing along with what the authors of the releases are trying to convey) and contributes to the same partisan environment we currently have.

Tabbi should be rightly held to that higher standard but so should every other news organization. Taking the high road starts with us as individuals. Language/words are used to convey meaning, which is an insight into the minds that use it by readers of that message.

kalm wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 11:40 am CNN News Update: Taibbi announced he is leaving Twitter over the new Substack link block policy (He gets subscription fees) and Musk has unfollowed Taibbi.

* not trolling

Winterborn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:38 pm

kalm wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 11:40 am CNN News Update: Taibbi announced he is leaving Twitter over the new Substack link block policy (He gets subscription fees) and Musk has unfollowed Taibbi.

* not trolling

FYP

Based on what Substack is currently doing, I would find it odd if Musk would keep following Taibbi.

UNI88 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:23 pm

Baldy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 1:21 pm

kalm wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 1:33 pm

Baldy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 1:21 pm

I still doesn’t appear the blue check thing is going well for Elon.

Baldy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 5:09 am

kalm wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 1:33 pm

I still doesn’t appear the blue check thing is going well for Elon.

Only to the ones who lost their legacy blue check.