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CNN Bites the Dust
And BuzzFeed is in penny stock territory. What went wrong?
“The Press is Already Working Overtime to Elect Trump Again,” announced renowned journalist and writer Matt Taibbi on his popular Substack channel today. “Negative media attention and the martyring effect of Internet censorship are the best friends Donald Trump ever hand, but press antagonists are doubling down for 2024.”
Taibbi isn’t the first mainstream media luminary to flee the confines of the corporate likes of Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune for the greener pastures of self-publishing.
Matt Taibbi, Substack nee Rolling Stone, Bari Weiss, formerly of New York Times fame, and John Kass, erstwhile of the Chicago Tribune, are only a few members of the bourgeoning media counter culture.
Taibbi isn’t the first or only writer to take on his former media benefactors, either, or turn his intense investigative instinct in the direction of his old haunts. Almost all of the popular journalists and writers to leave the mainstream for publishing alternatives expend at least part of their now-unrestricted content generation time researching, reporting on, and explaining what went wrong in their old newsrooms.
Writing on Substack, Taibbi’s latest offering does present a unique viewpoint on the current unsettled state of the mainstream…