NP - Matt Tabbi

Fri Oct 25 11:09:49 UTC 2019

Marie Solis
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At Newsweek my salary was based on how many people clicked my stories each
month, and I was ranked against my coworkers on a Google sheet that
autofilled every day. Any quality reporting my coworkers and I did was in
spite of these conditions:

Anyone know anything about Rolling Stone's compensation plan?

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 6:43 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fascinating to me. Every word of Hunter Thompson on America, as an
> example, is still readable
> because there was the reality which he saw and saw into and riffed on
> beyond literalness but always surfing on reality,
>  magnificently.
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> Fascinating to me that many, with their conspiracy theories, sea-changed
> from The Right-
> to what we call the supposed Left now-, cannot see how Hofstadter applies
> to their vision. It is laughable
> that Trump admin folks hired and promoted by Trump's regime are now part
> of 'the deep state", utterly hilarious---see Dr. Hilarious again, that
> crazy head shrinker-- that
> such Fantasyland stupidity has now moved on from being wrong on Russia vs
> the US election (as Mueller showed, while so many were "waiting for Mueller
> because nothing was "proven") to now being wrong on all of the eddies that
> come out of it. Greenwald is now a self parody of a meaningless clown.
> Fuckin' fascinating.
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> Taibbi's unconnection to American reality will hardly even be found in the
> dustbin of history. it will have the reality
> of, oh, James Cabell's once popular fantasy allegories, his fantasy world
> now even unread since humankind cannot
> bear very much unreality as Lucy Ellman brilliantly repurposes Eliot. Read*
> Ducks, Newburyport* instead of Taibbi
> and learn something about America.
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> Taibbi's 'truths' will be revealed as very like Scientist Postel's,
> arrogant inability to accept reality.
>  Hubris for a paycheck in Taibbi's case---one must differentiate oneself
> somehow to stay employed at middle class journalism
> levels.
>
> But of course, he and the guy coming up in this post are LONE COURAGEOUS
> GENIUSES like the sadly irrelevant Sy Hersh,
> who feeling his past greatness and wanted by ALL the best publications for
> his work and reputation lately, and now especially,
> has been rejected for incompetence all the way down the media chain now
> including even the London Review of Books.
>
> Yes, *of course* there is a conspiracy against him, yeah, right, as if,
> starting with the New Yorker where he once had first exclusive
> they now---for a long now-- think he is "unpublishable" because too
> dangerous, too explosive for its readers, for America, yeah, right.
>
> yes, Taibbi's correspondence with reality will go down in history like Dr
> Postel's:
>
> https://al-bab.com/blog/2019/10/mit-professor-postol-resigns-science-journal-spat-over-article-syria
> Postel will live on like the Piltdown Man hoax (only he is just wrong out
> of hubris, not a hoax-maker except in effect.)
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> Like other science cranks.
>
> Yeah, the scientific journal which once published him has rejected his
> supposed science. As the UN did while not attempting to discredit him, just
> doing so by doing science right.  That is how truth comes out, as it once
> did when Hersh broke the truth, not Hersh's single-sourced liars as
> truth-tellers lately.
>
> But, of course, so many folks, many within the US yet a lot elsewhere, who
> can not even experience the American reality granularly, viscerally,
> Who "project a world' out of the books they read,---don't we all 'get' the
> meanings of *The Crying of Lot 49?* --will continue to believe stupidity
> and fantasy. Serves psychic needs, as Jung and Pynchon know.
>
> Fascinating,  I tell you. Fascinating. Fascinating to me as recently held '
> truths' get discredited why one doesn't change one's premises. I can
> remember when i had to. Knowledge as Justified True Belief, per Pierce and
> James and Dewey. ....
>
> As Joker says in that Pynchonian movie: "I used to see my life as a
> tragedy, now I see it as a comedy"
> when he murders his mother and accepts his probable shortened life - full
> of nihilistic joy.
>
> We all have to murder our cherished conspiracy mothers might be another
> extended meaning of BLEEDING EDGE, I suggest.
>
> Meanwhile I found this while trying  fo find out who first wrote the line
> about life as tragedy or comedy. I can't but I know it
> lives in history)
>                      Look Homeward Angel now and melt with ruth.
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> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:33 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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>> Here is another great article by Matt Taibbi:
>>
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>> https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/clinton-gabbard-russian-asset-jill-stein-901593/
>>
>> As usual, I recommend to read Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style
>> in American Politics" for some historical context to this particular
>> derangement syndrome -- which in its earlier incarnation was called
>> "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", McCarthyism or "Red Scare".
>>
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>> https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
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