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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

I don't think so, bro. Two things happened to channel Matt's reporting on the DNC and corporate media: 1) those two groups started aiming at independent journalists, and 2) Twitter Files dropped in his lap. You go where the story takes you. His Twitter followers went up following the start of the Twitter Files, not because he stopped attacking Fox and Newsmax. Like classic muckrakers, he goes after the powerful.

But here's some truth in advertising: all you right wing people out there who think Matt is now one of you, think again.

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feldspar's avatar

Or: You go where Elon Musk says to go.

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Michael D (Piketty)'s avatar

JB - Matt is not one of them, when it comes to the right wingers that pray to him.

But his commitment to IGNORING right wing journalisms lies started long before the Twitter Files dropped in his lap. And his rapid growth in subs aligned directly with his attacks on the left and his IGNORING of equal hypocrisy on the right. I've been following him since before substack. I have watched it from start to end.

I get what he is doing and support him. But he is no different than Hassan or Tucker Carlson... NONE of them will do anything that turns their audience away from them in the name of 'truth and balance".

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feldspar's avatar

Obvious and self-evident—if you’re honest about the thing.

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Bill Owen's avatar

Who here "prays" to him?

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Michael D (Piketty)'s avatar

The majority of posters on this board pray to the God of right wing journalism like FOX and NewsMax and The Daily Wire etc... Evidence: They regurgitate that media's half truths and spin like its gospel on these boards.

And they ignore and are uninformed on the issues that the rest of the world really cares about like wages and health care and poverty and corp greed etc... because those media ignore such topics exactly as Chomsky articulated in Manufacturing Consent and in the intro to Matts book Hate Inc...

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