Radical Matt Taibbi on Russiagate: 'Death Blow for the Reputation of the American News Media'

[rangerrebew]

Radical Matt Taibbi on Russiagate: 'Death Blow for the Reputation of the American News Media'
By Tim Graham | March 24, 2019 3:55 PM EDT

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 Stone political 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."
 

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/03/24/radical-matt-taibbi-russiagate-death-blow-medias-reputation

[rangerrebew]

Not so.  Their reputation dropped lower than whale sh#t a long time ago.

[goatprairie]

The reputation of the media couldn't have been worse than other examples from the past.
I can go back to the sixties when at every opportunity they smeared Barry Goldwater when he was running for president. Nixon was a huge target then as well.
The lib media has covered up for liberal pols and other bad actors for almost one hundred years.
Scraping the bottom of the septic tank is their specialty.

[Fishrrman]

The "media" isn't going to learn anything from this debacle.

Instead, they're going to double-down and go in even deeper!