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Hate Inc.
- Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.
In the internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism's dirty tricks.
Hate Inc. will be an invaluable antidote to the hidden poisons dished up by those we rely on to tell us what is happening in the world.
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- gus
- 2021-05-29
opened my eyes
i knew the media was problematic but i had no idea how much. Looking forward to more from Matt Taibbi.
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- jason spencer
- 2020-06-19
Love Inc
Matt is consistently putting out great material. He's a fantastic writer who doesn't hold.back when calling out both sides. Terrific
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- Jaymazon
- 2021-05-02
Spot on big picture thinking
I’m a fan of Taibbi and his writing.
Reasonable and certainly a take a step back and look style in my view.
He and Katie Halper do a solid job on Useful Idiots.
Keep telling it like it is.
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- Trevor Reeve-Newson
- 2020-07-24
Smart and terrifying
A depressing narrative of how biased and maniacal the mainstream media has become. Matt has his biases and left leaning view, but all in all a fairly good analysis of the present backed with facts, stories and sources.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-06-16
Clarity
Fantastic listen. It stitched together my patch work understanding of this whole fiasco. There were alot of themes that people will already know, but its the connecting of all those dots in a easy to digest manner that gives this book such value. Thank you Matt!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-02-07
Past & future meet head on in this one.
We are meant to learn from the past. This book offers the lessons, the lies and the layout for what is happening. How the roadwork is prepared for a convoy of trucks of untruth. It's thought provoking, disturbing and honest.
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- Gerry Corcoran
- 2022-08-24
A well deserved beat down of modern media
Like many, I can't stand what the media has become today. Set to divide and anger the population, rather than inform it, it's a travesty of journalism that is making us stupider and allowing elites to exert more control over our life.
I picked up this book to hear a more in depth discussion of this issue, so that I could have more ammunition to feed my arguments when debating people who don't see this. Matt Taibbi delivers nothing less than a Mortal Kombat style fatality move on the news industry. He does not hold back from dropping names and going after some of the worst personalities directly for their negative influences. While he spent a lot of time on right-wing propaganda outlets like Fox News, he does go after left-leaning outlets as well and more interestingly, goes further back, showing the historical roots of this issue and how it's been around much longer than we think.
Of course, Taibbi has his own strong biases as a writer and while I don't think he'd deny them if they were pointed out, he ignores the impact that hardcore social idealogues are having on modern discourse or the impacts of things like cancel culture, which is very much alive and well. That's a disservice to the discussion, though made up for by him copping to his own participation in this kind of news culture before he knew better.
If you think the media is rotten, this will reinforce that view. But it also cites a lot of examples and historical information that can better inform you on where this came from and how it ended up here. I highly recommend.
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- Simon G.
- 2020-11-21
Mec plus ultra
Very pretty good. I went thru manufacturing consent a while ago, but this book is more modern and easier to understand. Too it cross reference manufacturing consent here and there too.
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- Max Lafontaine
- 2022-01-15
Matt is a great journalist !
Very well suited journalist to author this book. It was interesting to see the devolution of American media.
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- re
- 2020-07-23
Super necessary
Great listen for the world today. Will give this another listen if I ever get through my ever expanding book list
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