Sweatin’ Taibbi

[jon-nyc]

Far more anxious than you’d expect for a guy who’s been doing this for 20 years.

[LuFins Dad]

Funny, Taibbi posted corrections afterwards, then started asking for corrections on MSNBC stories that were in error. No response.

[Horace]

Team hate-Taibbi 1, team Tabbi 0. For those three minutes.

[Jolly]

I suspect at Jon's age, three minutes is enough.

[jon-nyc]

All of you missed the point. It wasn’t “haha Taibbi’s wrong”. It was how nervous and anxious he got when called out.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Sweatin’ Taibbi:

All of you missed the point. It wasn’t “haha Taibbi’s wrong”. It was how nervous and anxious he got when called out.

I'm sure that's all it was.

[jon-nyc]

As a straightforward read of the post and title will indicate.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Sweatin’ Taibbi:

As a straightforward read of the post and title will indicate.

Pretty sure context-free interpretations of posts aren't a thing.

[George K]

Taibbi comments on inaccurate reporting on MSNBC.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-eat-me-msnbc

tl;dr

If it sounds like my beef with MSNBC is personal, by now it is. Take the Twitter Files. When first presented with the opportunity to do that story, my first reaction was to be extremely excited, as any reporter would be, including anyone at MSNBC. In the next second however I was terrified, because I care about my job, and knew there would be a million eyes on this thing and a long way down if I got anything wrong. If you’ve ever wondered why I look 100 years old at 53 it’s because I embrace this part of the process. Audiences have a right to demand reporters lie awake nights in panic, and every good one I’ve ever met does.

But people who used to be my friends at MSNBC embraced a different model, leading to one of the biggest train wrecks in the history of our business. Now they have the stones to point at me with this “What happened to you?” routine. It’s rare that the following words are justified on every level, but really, MSNBC: Fuck you.