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People We Should Know: Matt Taibbi

People We Should Know: Matt Taibbi

Real investigative reporters still exist. Just not at the New York Times

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Feb 07, 2023
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Remember investigative reporters? Those meticulous, courageous, rumpled souls who used to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted” while discovering things that actually mattered? You don’t hear much about them anymore at the New York Times or Washington Post, and they’re long since extinct in cable news.

In part, this is because actually bre…

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