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“One political party may be preferable to another. A news channel, though, can’t be a vehicle for a political party and be anything but a bad thing.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“Accelerated by social media, moral panic has become the last dependably profitable format of modern news reporting.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“Never oppose what seems strange in yourself. That is the only part which is aware.”
― Kenneth Patchen, They Keep Riding Down All The Time

“More often, when explosive #Russiagate headlines go sideways, the original outlets simply ignore the new development, leaving the “retraction” process to conservative outlets that don’t reach the original audiences.
This is a major structural flaw of the new fully divided media landscape in which Republican media covers Democratic corruption and Democratic media covers Republican corruption. If neither “side” feels the need to disclose its own errors and inconsistencies, mistakes accumulate quickly.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another