This was interesting...
The establishment media is being roasted from the Right AND from the Left as the Russiagate conspiracy -- as a criminal conspiracy/impeachment vehicle -- has collapsed. Leftist author and former Rolling Stonepolitical writer Matt Taibbi is well known for roasting right-wingers with overwrought personal attacks. But he's drawing notice -- even from Brian Stelter today on Reliable Sources -- for roasting the media under this headline:
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD.
The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it
Taibbi began with a dramatic announcement: "Nobody wants to hear this, but news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home without issuing new charges is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media."
That can be argued both ways -- their reputation has been tainted for a long time, and yet, they are the "establishment media" right now. Taibbi mocked the Mueller worship in the media and entertainment elites:
The Special Prosecutor literally became a religious figure during the last few years, with votive candles sold in his image and Saturday Night Live cast members singing “All I Want for Christmas is You” to him featuring the rhymey line: “Mueller please come through, because the only option is a coup.”
Nothing Trump is accused of from now on by the press will be believed by huge chunks of the population, a group that (perhaps thanks to this story) is now larger than his original base. As Baker notes, a full 50.3% of respondents in a poll conducted this month said they agree with Trump the Mueller probe is a “witch hunt.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/n...aibbi-russiagate-death-blow-medias-reputation[/COLOR]
The establishment media is being roasted from the Right AND from the Left as the Russiagate conspiracy -- as a criminal conspiracy/impeachment vehicle -- has collapsed. Leftist author and former Rolling Stonepolitical writer Matt Taibbi is well known for roasting right-wingers with overwrought personal attacks. But he's drawing notice -- even from Brian Stelter today on Reliable Sources -- for roasting the media under this headline:
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD.
The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it
That can be argued both ways -- their reputation has been tainted for a long time, and yet, they are the "establishment media" right now. Taibbi mocked the Mueller worship in the media and entertainment elites:
The Special Prosecutor literally became a religious figure during the last few years, with votive candles sold in his image and Saturday Night Live cast members singing “All I Want for Christmas is You” to him featuring the rhymey line: “Mueller please come through, because the only option is a coup.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/n...aibbi-russiagate-death-blow-medias-reputation[/COLOR]