crabbygirl reviewed Hate Inc. by Matt Taibbi
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4 stars
written in 2019, this was an interesting exercise in political and cultural fortune-telling. the author used to cover politics with Rolling Stone so had press access to campaigns as well as copious free-time (writing monthly versus weekly or daily) with which to contemplate the showmanship of said campaigns. couple that with his years experience inside media and growing up watching his own journalist father, and it's a pretty slam-dunk analysis of how we got to this point in history. News as a hustle, as an addiction, as a consumer product, as a creator of folk devils: it's all here.
his chapter on how the news is like pro wrestling was one of the funniest political commentaries about the rise of Trump and our blindness to how we all contributed to it. you realise just how much of success is due to instincts. and we should be worried because Trump is …
written in 2019, this was an interesting exercise in political and cultural fortune-telling. the author used to cover politics with Rolling Stone so had press access to campaigns as well as copious free-time (writing monthly versus weekly or daily) with which to contemplate the showmanship of said campaigns. couple that with his years experience inside media and growing up watching his own journalist father, and it's a pretty slam-dunk analysis of how we got to this point in history. News as a hustle, as an addiction, as a consumer product, as a creator of folk devils: it's all here.
his chapter on how the news is like pro wrestling was one of the funniest political commentaries about the rise of Trump and our blindness to how we all contributed to it. you realise just how much of success is due to instincts. and we should be worried because Trump is not done. His instincts might be easily explained in retrospect, but we'll be reacting in real time when he resurfaces. our media landscape will not be ready for it.