Matt Taibbi

Rank 23 of 47

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Score 14

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3h

Because it’s incorrect. Now another reporter is going to see that phrase in Famous Paper X and use it himself/herself, and be wrong.
You may not care about these distinctions because it’s Epstein, but being accurate used to be the baseline requirement for media, and now isn’t.

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3h

It would be totally unethical for any journalist to accept money from a source. I’ve never done it, never will, and the claim that I did is why I’m suing.

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12h

I’m not “acting obtuse” about Epstein, it iust bothers me to see giant media corporations repeatedly print errors like “convicted sex trafficker.” I don’t care at all about Epstein, I care about journalism, which seems to have given up on being accurate.

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13h

And remember, neither does Substack. Substack is a service that GETS paid a commission by contributors, in exchange for its design and self-publishing mechanics (and commitment not to suppress content). All money comes from readers

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13h

The particular irony here being that most journalists who get scoops are paid by somebody to publish them, but all of us on the Twitter Files agreed to publish for free.

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13h

It’s been amazing to see how venomous lefty media figures are about money. They’re used to clawing over dwindling budgets and tiny sinecures from NGOs or academia, routinely stab colleagues in the back for engagement, and assume everyone is as desperate/unscrupulous as they are.

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13h

Wow. I got scoops from a source, which I was able to publish for free, precisely because I had enough existing subscriber support to afford it.

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13h

My subscriptions went down for the first time in January and February of 2023, at the peak of the Twitter Files, for the perfectly sensible reason that all my content was coming out for free on Twitter. You are wrong and Higgins is wrong. You can’t just invent things

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13h

@gato_danger Who?

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13h

I don’t have any fucking “benefactors.” You people are insane