Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
Matt TaibbiOne of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
Matt TaibbiI try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, "Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive." Things should be better.
Matt TaibbiIt may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.
Matt TaibbiThe basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.
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