We Need a New Media System – Matt Taibbi

I agree with everything Taibbi is saying here, although I have no idea whether there’s a realistic path to get there. I’d sure as hell subscribe to the kind of media outlet he describes.

If you work in conservative media, you probably felt tremendous pressure all November to stay away from information suggesting Trump lost the election. If you work in the other ecosystem, you probably feel right now that even suggesting what happened last Wednesday was not a coup in the literal sense of the word (e.g. an attempt at seizing power with an actual chance of success) not only wouldn’t clear an editor, but might make you suspect in the eyes of co-workers, a potentially job-imperiling problem in this environment.

We need a new media channel, the press version of a third party, where those financial pressures to maintain audience are absent.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-media-system