Matt Taibbi Leaving Rolling Stone for Greenwald’s First Look

[kpete]

A POPULAR and noted critic of Wall Street corruption, Matt Taibbi is moving to Glenn Greenwald’s First Look Media. It’s a good fit given what Glenn has said his new-media site will be all about.

Matt Taibbi, who made a name as a fierce critic of Wall Street at Rolling Stone magazine, has joined First Look Media, the latest big-name journalist to leave an established brand to enter the thriving and well-financed world of news start-ups. (New York Times)

http://www.taylormarsh.com/2014/02/matt-taibbi-leaving-rolling-stone-greenwalds-first-look/

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Taibbi will be an excellent draw for the new venture

I must admit that I am a bit surprised by the move.

[Hissyspit]

55. The excellent Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel, is going there, too.

The woman is brilliant. Jeremy Scahill and Dan Froomkin are there, as well.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. In case you missed it, Greenwald got the George Polk Award a few days ago.

"The George Polk Awards, conferred annually in recognition of special achievement in journalism"

[GliderGuider]

3. +1000 I can think of no more deserving recipient! nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. the First Look website is cool.

https://firstlook.org/#/home

I got to add that to my start pages.

[SwankyXomb]

19. You might want to avoid the comments sections

until they can get some moderation on them, as there is some high octane DMFism going on.

[tridim]

4. He's in good company with Bill O'Reilly and Inside Edition

Also a Polk Award winner!

[Luminous Animal]

6. O'Reilly was no longer working at Inside Edition when two of its reporters

won the Polk Awards.

[tridim]

8. Inside Edition was a piece of crap and it won a Polk. That's the point LA.

[rhett o rick]

11. Your point is that you hate Greenwald and all that dare speak truth to power. nm

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Lying Liar

From the site lying , liar


http://lyingliar.com/?p=18


Matt Meagher and Tim Peek each got one for their work in an undercover investigation of insurance fraud for the show


Other recipients of the Polk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_Polk_Award_winners

Seems to be some really good reporters.


You and your sour grapes.

[Autumn]

27. No the point is that billo winning a Polk is a well known lie and you tried to paint

Glen with it. That's the point and it says all that needs to be said about you.

[reddread]

37. + n/t

[QC]

50. +2

[ChisolmTrailDem]

39. WTF is wrong with you? Explain yourself, please.

[bvar22]

34. Good One.... except that it is a LIE,

....but some people don't care.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

52. LOL

[progressoid]

16. Baloney. O'reilly never won a Polk or even claimed to have.

He did try to claim he won a Peabody, but Al Franken called him on it.

After he left Inside Edition, two of their reporters did win a Polk

NATIONAL TELEVISION REPORTING: Matt Meagher and Tim Peek of ''Inside Edition'' for ''Door to Door Insurance,'' an undercover investigation of the exploitation of poor Americans by some insurers.

[Autumn]

23. Sure, spread that lie some more. Inside Edition did win a George Polk award

a year after Bill O'Reilly left the show. And don't try to claim the Peabody award for him either.

[KG]

28. laughable, in a sad kinda way...

[Autumn]

30. Resorting to lies is a pretty damn sad tactic.

But I guess for fans of billo admitting that he is a liar just wouldn't work better to lie about someone else.

[bvar22]

32. Fail,

and FAIL again.

Typical.

[rocktivity]

21. And in case you missed it

Shawn Boburg, the local reporter who broke the Bridge(t)-Gate scandal, got a Polk Award, too!


rocktivity

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. oooh..I HAD missed that.....

Thanks....

[woo me with science]

33. +1000000

[hootinholler]

7. Matt Taibbi thrown under the bus in 3, 2, 1... n/t

[MattSh]

9. Sorry, we've run out of busses...

but I'm sure some new ones are on order.

[bullwinkle428]

15. Oh, Taibbi was tossed under the bus years ago for reporting a little too

vigorously on the financial malfeasance of some of the pukes on Wall Street.

[Skittles]

20. you're a bit late

the Tiger Beat crowd has been there; done that

[Autumn]

24. Taibbi has been under the bus for a while now since some of his reporting

is on corruption in the banks and the administrations coziness with them. Not once has he reported on how good Obama looks.

[grasswire]

44. heh

that got a smile out of me.

[Autumn]

46. You do know that Taibbi and Greenwald do not love Obama?

Bad Taibbi, bad Greenwald.

[grasswire]

47. I'm waiting to hear if Taibbi has boxes in his garage. nt

[Autumn]

48. I heard he has a ballerina tied up in there.

[90-percent]

10. "the thriving and well-financed world of news start-ups"

Is there really such a thing?

I thought our Corporate MSM was there to stifle dissent and make us bottom 99%'ers obey our leaders by sheer force of propaganda alone?

This implies there's an investment-worthy potential in "news start ups"?

If their brand is professional investigative journalism as the Founding Fathers envisioned as the civic duty of our free press, then I'm on board. If it is more propaganda agenda driven psy-ops big lies, only this time with young pretty hip people in their 20's, then, what do all these investors expect for their ROI?

What's in it for them? Civic Responsibility? Oh how quaint and pathetic.

-90% Jimmy

[bkanderson76]

14. Matt Taibbi...Has Exposed Wall Street For What It Is....A True Journalistic Patriot

[2banon]

17. Taibbi's and Scahill's work are my top of the "must read: list.

Dynamic Duo! I wish Taibbi and Scahill all the best and HUGE Success!

I was given a heads up on this news in a different thread.. I have admit that I have mixed emotions about this decision.. hoping that his work will get the level of attention it had with Rolling Stone. OTH teaming up with Greenwald and Scahill makes perfect sense..

[mikeysnot]

18. Figures, he is the reason I read RS

And I just got a subscription for Christmas... figures...

[Dopers_Greed]

22. Huge blow for RS

Taibbi was one of the best things they had going for them. He was always right on with the Wall Street articles. Hopefully RS will keep up with the political coverage. They were one of the few big publications to have the guts during 2012 to expose Romney for what he really was, while the rest of the media was fawning over him and Queen Ann.

[Autumn]

25. Recommended. I can't wait until that site is up and running fully.

Matt Taibbi is one hell of an awesome journalist.

[JaneyVee]

26. Good for him. He's come a long way from his early Moscow days.

He deserves it and is a great critic of Wall Street.

[MindMover]

29. I look forward to reading and hearing investigative journalism again ...

Even if "VICE" is as close as we get today to the real thingy ...

[dixiegrrrrl]

41. Another VICE fan.....yayyy

Have not heard much discussion of that show here.
I really really like it, can't wait for the new season to start!

[MindMover]

49. Got my DVR set for March record ... GO VICE ... and thanks Bill Maher

[WillyT]

31. Woo Hoo !!! - This Is Getting Better And Better... And Don't Forget, Marci Wheeler Is There To !!!

Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/06/1275705/-Marcy-Wheeler-To-Join-Greenwald-Scahill-Poitras-First-Look-Media





& Rec !!!

[Luminous Animal]

36. I was very happy to see that too

[woo me with science]

35. Huge K&R for the battling back of real journalism!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

38. I trust this is a non-paid position. Otherwise he is a filthy self-promoter for associating....

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.... with another filthy self promoter who should not earn a living.


Check book journalism!!!Check book journalism!!!Check book journalism!!!Check book journalism!!!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

57. Calm down, Sibel.

[Jefferson23]

42. Not surprising..I bet Rolling Stone is sorry to lose him. n/t

[Purveyor]

43. kick. Thanks for posting. +1 eom

[WillyT]

45. Wow... There Are Some Bitter Posters On This Thread...

[RufusTFirefly]

53. Indeed. Giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming they're not simply shills....

... I'd love to get inside their heads to see what motivates them to smear these folks at every opportunity.

[SamKnause]

51. Excellent news !!!

Pun intended.

[colsohlibgal]

54. This Kind Of Surprises Me

But Taibbi is no dummy so I'm looking forward to what comes of this.

Taibbi to me is a great successor of the late great Hunter Thompson. The work he's done to shine a light on the unbelievable and largely unpunished fraud of Wall Street showed what a cesspool Wall Street is, and how it's disheartening that the Obama Administration has mostly looked the other way.

I hope this venture is a success, anything that moves the Dems off this "third way" neo democratic kick is a good thing. Let the republicans have the right wing, let them extinguish themselves, populism is the right thing and the way forward.

[joeybee12]

56. It's only meta-data!!!!!

[woo me with science]

58. kick for real journalism