Man, this was dope. I’m genuinely happy that this platform gives you the opportunity to go after these types of subjects, you can feel your excitement for the topics through your writing.
Great interview! Glad to hear Chomsky agrees with me on nothing much having changed the Propaganda Model - I was pressured by my publisher to add a separate chapter to my wannabe-update to Manufacturing Consent on how the internet and social media have changed so much, but I resisted. I'd love to get a blurb from you on the book, if you're game - regardless, I think you'll find it useful in writing "The Fairway: Thirty Years After Manufacturing Consent, How Mass Media Still Keeps Thought Inbounds." It contains citations to most of the relevant academic research on media effects and political economy of media. Send me an email (pbeattie@cuhk.edu.hk) and I'll reply with a copy of the manuscript.
Hi Matt, great interview! I can't wait for this new series and the newsletter. I wrote an article on my blog about TBSODD, I don't have many followers but I really wanted to do my part to spread the word about the story. Here's a link down below
I reread once again this great interview -- thank you so very much. I learned a lot.
I respect you even more because of your obvious respect for Noam's great work.
Please don't get discouraged -- as Noam is saying -- nothing much has changed except that now we are close to two catastrophes -- nuclear war and climate change-Earth destruction and its beautiful life 6th extinction
Well -- That note was written eons ago. I am glad you finally read it. Like John McLain said in Diehard, "Welcome to the party pal." It is interesting to me that all the stuff he wrote subsequent to that has been really interesting and outstanding in general. I read a lot of pundit and media commentary on the issues of the day, and the insights Taibbi brings are above them all. Just great stuff. I still do not understand why the Chomsky interview missed with me. It is really just an outlier for me, I guess. I have been called a lot of bad things before -- and many have merit --- but I have never been called lazy. Never the sharpest knife in the drawer sure -- but never lazy. Have a nice day.
Man, this was dope. I’m genuinely happy that this platform gives you the opportunity to go after these types of subjects, you can feel your excitement for the topics through your writing.
Great interview! Glad to hear Chomsky agrees with me on nothing much having changed the Propaganda Model - I was pressured by my publisher to add a separate chapter to my wannabe-update to Manufacturing Consent on how the internet and social media have changed so much, but I resisted. I'd love to get a blurb from you on the book, if you're game - regardless, I think you'll find it useful in writing "The Fairway: Thirty Years After Manufacturing Consent, How Mass Media Still Keeps Thought Inbounds." It contains citations to most of the relevant academic research on media effects and political economy of media. Send me an email (pbeattie@cuhk.edu.hk) and I'll reply with a copy of the manuscript.
Hi Matt, great interview! I can't wait for this new series and the newsletter. I wrote an article on my blog about TBSODD, I don't have many followers but I really wanted to do my part to spread the word about the story. Here's a link down below
https://thegreenrover.blog/2018/09/17/the-business-secrets-of-drug-dealing-review-by-matt-taibbi-and-anonymous/
I reread once again this great interview -- thank you so very much. I learned a lot.
I respect you even more because of your obvious respect for Noam's great work.
Please don't get discouraged -- as Noam is saying -- nothing much has changed except that now we are close to two catastrophes -- nuclear war and climate change-Earth destruction and its beautiful life 6th extinction
So excited about this medium! Keeping making press appearances about this work. People love what you do and will support you.
Matt:
This was uber-boring. I did not finish it. I did not follow it – I am not that smart.
Lest you conclude I am some red MAGA trucker hat moron – I’m not. I come at journalism through the David Simon angle.
I loved “…Drug Dealing.” You are an awesome writer/journalist.
I get why you are so over-the-moon with Chomsky. Many journos are. I guess I just don’t get it, though.
I look forward to your next project.
Heh... you must be the kind of person who can't wait for a punchline and that most jokes are lost on.
I wonder if your opinion has changed since you posted this, "I don't get it." comment. You ARE smart; just lazy.
Well -- That note was written eons ago. I am glad you finally read it. Like John McLain said in Diehard, "Welcome to the party pal." It is interesting to me that all the stuff he wrote subsequent to that has been really interesting and outstanding in general. I read a lot of pundit and media commentary on the issues of the day, and the insights Taibbi brings are above them all. Just great stuff. I still do not understand why the Chomsky interview missed with me. It is really just an outlier for me, I guess. I have been called a lot of bad things before -- and many have merit --- but I have never been called lazy. Never the sharpest knife in the drawer sure -- but never lazy. Have a nice day.
Also... "eons"???
You wrote this in Sept of 2018.
Less than a year. Eons... maybe in the media news cycle, but not an eon in reality, right?
Short attention spans are what keep the news "fresh" hahaha
Haha well... I really only meant you had been lazy regarding what this interview was a segue into.
Sorry for that, I was being a bit mean.
Matt is doing a great job in at least documenting this mess.
Nobody else wants to wake up out of the crazy fever dream that our "news" industry has succumbed to.
What a damned mess.