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December 03, 2022
Thread before the Gardening Thread, December 3There has been a lot of new information coming out this week that has been unnerving to a lot of people. And a lot of it seems downright crazy. But it feels like there is more to come. Imagine being the REAL, slow-blinking White House Press Secretary today. She is prone to adding an additional layer of crazy-making to many stories when asked to comment. IF she is asked. I am unnerved, too. In a different way, I hope. There's too much information that I don't really understand. Best I can do at the moment is to marvel some at how we got here, and then turn back to other matters, like the holidays. The Big Twitter Reveal Ace pointed out last night that the tweet-by-tweet revelations about actions at The Old Twitter about Hunter's laptop took the focus off the FBI's malfeasance on this issue. But Elon Musk's main concern right now seems to be Twitter. He is a target. As an example, the EU has threatened to ban Twitter in Europe unless new owner Elon Musk adheres to its strict rules on content moderation. The U.S. government is not the only one pulling strings on the press and social media. The Twitter Reveal is a risk for Musk. How did Musk come to choose Matt Taibbi for the Twitter reveal? Well, I can't say for sure, but I have a clue. On November 30, Taibbi and Douglas Murray debated Malcolm Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg in the prestigious Munk Debates in Canada on this subject: "Be it resolved: Do not trust the mainstream media." He posted his opening argument to his Substack as the debate began: "Be it resolved: don't trust mainstream media." My name is Matt Taibbi, I've been a reporter for 30 years, and I argue for the resolution. You should not trust mainstream media. I love the news business. It's in my bones. But I mourn for it. It's destroyed itself. Well, Taibbi and Murray reportedly changed the views of the audience by the largest margin ever recorded in the Munk debates. Incidentally, Douglas Murray went after the Canadian press hard for its ties to government. There's a video of the debate if you have the patience to watch it. Taibbi called it "wild and oddly nasty". I don't think the transcripts of the debate have been released yet. But Taibbi is certainly on record for his opposition to the decline in the reliability of the press. Of course, this also affects how we think about other forms of communication, such as Twitter. There is powerful opposition to freedom of expression:
Taibbi released a podcast with Walter Kirn (who calls him "Ace") last night, the same night as the big Twitter Reveal. They discuss both the Munk debate and the Twitter reveal. He's been busy. A hundred years ago:
Sudden revelations that we should have anticipated We already knew that dog bondage was not Sam Brinton's only fetish. Of course, we didn't really know that stealing womens' luggage might be another. But should we have trusted him with the administration of the nation's nuclear waste?
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