Taibbi and company arent 'new', by any standards. They are the OLD model, aka ACTUAL journalists,aka normal. Whats new is the weaponization of tech to fraudulently manipulate info in order to frame certain narratives, and at exponential scale. And Taylor Lorenz. IOW, propaganda.
To even conceive of actual journalistic standards as som…
Taibbi and company arent 'new', by any standards. They are the OLD model, aka ACTUAL journalists,aka normal. Whats new is the weaponization of tech to fraudulently manipulate info in order to frame certain narratives, and at exponential scale. And Taylor Lorenz. IOW, propaganda.
To even conceive of actual journalistic standards as something 'new' is evidence of how we as a Society have been purposely manipulated.
Couldn't agree more. Here in New York we had citizen journalists like Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin. These guys dedicated their careers to fighting The Man. They came from the streets and they never left. And they represented a heritage that went back a century.
What makes the Substack Crew different is that they come with pedigree: private schools, Ivy League, etc. But unlike their Establishment press peers, they've left the elite cucoon and built a bridge back to their working class predecessors by questioning authority and holding the feet of those in power to the fire. Hamill and Breslin would be with them.
What bothers me about this is the suggestion that whether Substack or Establishment, a certain pedigree is a prerequisite. Why assume that the "Substack Crew" have these pedigrees but nevertheless choose to leave them behind to reconnect with the working class? I subscribe to several Substack writers and don't care whether they come from elite* backgrounds, just the quality of their writing. But then again, I've never understood the allure of pedigrees anyway, not even when it comes to my beloved cat.
*I guess I should mention that my antipathy to this word makes my muscles seize up whenever I see it, which is unfortunate because it's so ubiquitous. I can't wait for it to fulfill its destiny wandering the netherworlds.
Look around in here a little further, and find the kind of progressive claptrap that will make you throw up in your mouth a little, pretending to be " above the fray", utilizing incredibly long words to beat up the idea of conservatism.
Taibbi and company arent 'new', by any standards. They are the OLD model, aka ACTUAL journalists,aka normal. Whats new is the weaponization of tech to fraudulently manipulate info in order to frame certain narratives, and at exponential scale. And Taylor Lorenz. IOW, propaganda.
To even conceive of actual journalistic standards as something 'new' is evidence of how we as a Society have been purposely manipulated.
Couldn't agree more. Here in New York we had citizen journalists like Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin. These guys dedicated their careers to fighting The Man. They came from the streets and they never left. And they represented a heritage that went back a century.
What makes the Substack Crew different is that they come with pedigree: private schools, Ivy League, etc. But unlike their Establishment press peers, they've left the elite cucoon and built a bridge back to their working class predecessors by questioning authority and holding the feet of those in power to the fire. Hamill and Breslin would be with them.
What bothers me about this is the suggestion that whether Substack or Establishment, a certain pedigree is a prerequisite. Why assume that the "Substack Crew" have these pedigrees but nevertheless choose to leave them behind to reconnect with the working class? I subscribe to several Substack writers and don't care whether they come from elite* backgrounds, just the quality of their writing. But then again, I've never understood the allure of pedigrees anyway, not even when it comes to my beloved cat.
*I guess I should mention that my antipathy to this word makes my muscles seize up whenever I see it, which is unfortunate because it's so ubiquitous. I can't wait for it to fulfill its destiny wandering the netherworlds.
Look around in here a little further, and find the kind of progressive claptrap that will make you throw up in your mouth a little, pretending to be " above the fray", utilizing incredibly long words to beat up the idea of conservatism.