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Fox News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Rioters Claim L.A. For Mexico As The Battle For America Spreads Into More Cities (ft. Matt Taibbi and Alexi Lalas & Carli Lloyd)
Story #1: Stolen land! Will breaks down the claim by the Left that Los Angeles belongs to Mexico as rioters and politicians make the riots about more than ICE deportations. Story #2: FOX Sports' Soccer Analysts and National Soccer Hall of Famers, Alexi Lalas and Carli Lloyd join Will following the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team's embarrassing loss to Switzerland. Can U.S. Men's Soccer ever reach the top of the world stage? Story #3: Will is joined by award-winning Reporter at Matt Taibbi to analyze Elon Musk's apology following his tweet storm against President Donald Trump and the firing of Terry Moran over tweets about the Trump Administration. Plus, the two delve into what the future likely holds as AI threatens major American industries. Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing WillCainShow@ Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on X: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Fox News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Speaker Johnson accuses Democrats of siding with MS-13: 'Terrible political calculation'
All times eastern Making Money with Charles Payne FOX News Radio Live Channel Coverage WATCH LIVE: Will Cain discusses political extremism with Matt Taibbi
Chicago Tribune
26-04-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Biblioracle: ‘Owned' by Eoin Higgins picks apart how billionaires bought the media landscape
It's hard to know who to trust these days. Our media is fractured, long past the days of trusted, broadly accessed news sources. Information crops up on social media decontextualized and severed from its origins or even from a coherent chronology. Artificial intelligence can be used to spoof voices, images and even video, so we literally cannot believe what we see with our own eyes if we encounter it online. Historically, one of the sources that, at least in theory, could fill this void is individual, trusted voices, journalists and commentators who have built up a track record of rigor and fairness. A new book by Eoin Higgins, 'Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left,' now throws even this last proposition into question, at least for a couple of very prominent, longstanding public voices, Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald first made his name writing for Salon and then The Guardian before co-founding The Intercept as a publication focused on countering government surveillance and interference with individual rights. He presented himself as a champion of those without access to power. Taibbi is most known for his time at Rolling Stone, where he frequently and scabrously attacked the financial industry, including characterizing Goldman Sachs in a 2009 article as a 'great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.' Higgins' book traces the evolution of these two figures, as well as the media landscape in general as institutions have declined, only to be replaced by billionaires who use their wealth to control what we see, hear and believe. The title and my description make it sound conspiratorial or polemical, but Higgins' treatment of the subject is scrupulously fair throughout, mapping the long trajectories of the main figures, including tech barons Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, as the intersection of money and the rise of the social internet created different incentive structures around what information to share and how. We've arrived in a place where, once having excoriated Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi became one of the handpicked conveyors of the richest man alive's (Elon Musk) so-called 'Twitter files.' Greenwald has gone from leftist firebrand to a favorite of right-wing media and serial apologist for Donald Trump. It's certainly possible that these changes of viewpoint are sincere, the byproduct of lived experience, but it's hard to turn away from the influence of Andreessen, Thiel and others in using their wealth to control the dissemination of what gets into the world for others to experience. Not all the examples are as obvious as Thiel's famous bankrolling of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit, which bankrupted the Gawker website, settling a longstanding grudge against the site. But the message becomes clear: The foundation of a journalistic ecosystem predicated on public support in the interests of a public good has been significantly subsumed by the interests of the ultra-wealthy. Parts were an uncomfortable read for me. Higgins discusses the development and implications of the Substack platform, where I maintain my newsletter, The Biblioracle Recommends, and how this platform, significantly funded by Andreessen, has provided a home to content (science denial, open Nazism) that would never find purchase in a place like this newspaper. Does this make me at least a little complicit? Maybe, but it's also one of the few remaining places a writer can go to make additional income. Higgins is clear, the challenge isn't just a few billionaires, but a world significantly unmoored from the institutions that once helped hold us together. John Warner is the author of books including 'More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI.' You can find him at Book recommendations from the Biblioracle John Warner tells you what to read based on the last five books you've read. 1. 'Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers' by Alexander McCall Smith 2. 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens 3. 'The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War' by Michael Shaara 4. 'The Man Who Died Twice' by Richard Osman 5. 'Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad' by Andrew K. Diemer — Ron L., Naperville For Ron, I'm recommending a contemporary classic of small-town life, 'Empire Falls' by Richard Russo. 1. 'Wonder Boys' by Michael Chabon 2. 'Everyone Knows You Go Home' by Natalia Sylvester 3. 'Empire of Pain' by Patrick Radden Keefe 4. 'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan 5. 'And Then There Were None' by Agatha Christie — Lisa K., Highland Park This is not an emotionally easy read, but I think Lisa doesn't mind a story that gets to the marrow, 'The Free' by Willy Vlautin. 1. 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen 2. 'Led Zeppelin: The Biography' by Bob Spitz 3. 'Presumed Guilty' by Scott Turow 4. 'James' by Percival Everett 5. 'Miracle Creek' by Angie Kim — Michael R., Western Springs I'm chuckling to myself about the juxtaposition of the first two books in this list. Inspired by it, I'm recommending a strange and interesting rock and roll novel, 'Great Jones Street' by Don DeLillo.
Gulf Insider
28-01-2025
- Politics
- Gulf Insider
"Gigantic Rat's Nest": Taibbi Hints FBI Communications With COVID Scientists Will Be Exposed
Award-winning independent journalist Matt Taibbi revealed in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that communications between FBI officials and scientists related to gain-of-function research and the origins of COVID-19 is expected to one day be made public. Donald Trump is releasing more secrets than any president in history. Matt Taibbi on the top ten mysteries we're likely to solve.(0:00) Fauci's Pardon(7:32) The J6 Committee's Pardon(11:02) The Golden Age of Journalism Has Begun(17:44) The Major Questions We Should Be Asking… — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 27, 2025 There are so many different areas where they are going to have to investigate and reinvestigate that. We just went through a period where there was mass stonewalling of Congress when it was trying to investigate what happened with COVID. There were key people like Peter Daszak from the EcoHealth Alliance, who just didn't answer subpoenas, right? There are documents that we know exist that we're going to get now with FBI communications between the bureau and a lot of these scientists dating back ten years. And it's going to tell a crazy story, a really interesting story. There's a reason why Fauci's pardon is backdated to 2014, because that's the time period they are going to have to start looking, which is, when did we start defying the ban on gain of function research. We clearly did. That's pretty established at this point. Why were we doing it? What connection did that have to the Wuhan thing? What kind of advanced notice did we get? What kind of lies were told about it? Who were responsible for those lies? What information did we get about the inefficacy of the vaccine and how did that connect to statement by the CDC and the White House? This also connects to the censorship issue in a major way because there was a massive effort to control the public conversation about this that went through the health agencies. We know they're looking at that. And that's another executive order, by the way, the free speech order. It directs the Department of Justice to come up with a comprehensive review of all the censorship stuff, so we're going to find out about that. I just think COVID is a gigantic rat's nest of stuff. Every direction they look there's going to find something revelatory. TUCKER CARLSON: The question is: will that information reach the public? There is these intermediaries like the media. Congressional brand investigators, executive brand investigators like DOJ, inspector generals, they are always constantly releasing reports and no one reads them because no one picks them up in the media. Do we have enough interested reporters to designate what they find? MATT TAIBBI: I think we do because what we think of as the media is dead. They no longer really matter. The media that matters right now are people like you, Joe Rogan and other independent podcasters out there. There's this gigantic, thriving independent media out there that turned the last election. It was abundantly clear that the old media no longer had any ability to control the narrative about anything. They're totally discredited.
