![]() ![]() “But she builds her audience the same way,” by fostering an us vs. ![]() “Maddow defenders will say she’s nowhere near as vicious and deceptive as Hannity and therefore doesn’t belong in the same category,” writes Taibbi. ![]() Prime examples include the Sean Hannity Show on Fox News and the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Media companies now shunt viewers into “demographic silos” and treat news like pro wrestling, fomenting conflict by encouraging people to take sides. Today in Libya.…” The explosion of cable news channels helped to change that, but the author argues convincingly that many outlets have traded one sin for another. Taibbi saw the self-censorship in newscasts that courted the widest possible audiences with a bland approach he sums up as, “ Good evening, I’m Dan Rather, and my frontal lobes have been removed. ![]() Rolling Stone contributing editor Taibbi ( I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, 2017, etc.) spares neither right- nor left-leaning pundits as he inveighs against cable TV and other media that treat news as a form of entertainment.Īfter nearly three decades as a journalist, the author reconsiders the message of one of his earliest professional touchstones, Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, in which Chomsky argued that censorship in the United States wasn’t overt but covert-that news companies simply failed to promote people who opposed their aims. ![]()
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