Matt Taibbi

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Score 41
2/27/2024, 1:58:19 AM
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Patrick Collins
@the_snuggler
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@mtaibbi He already addressed the article and said it was in regards to China specifically
Edward Wong
@ewong
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This passage in @TheAtlantic essay by Adam Rubenstein is wrong. The quote is from a paragraph in which I discussed only China policy. I named a GOP senator whom I think speaks with more substance on China than Cotton. Readers know I quote a wide range of knowledgeable analysis.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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585d
The phenomenon of not directly quoting disfavored figures, or not linking to inconvenient primary sources, is widespread in media now. Among the biggest tells that the press has become an almost completely political enterprise
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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Amazing re NYT: “Correspondent Edward Wong wrote… that he typically chose not to quote [Senator Tom] Cotton in his own stories because his comments ‘often represent neither a widely held majority opinion nor a well-thought-out minority opinion.’” https://www.theatlantic.com/idea…

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