Rolling Stone: We Skeptics Owe You an Apology

[arthunter]

A very important article about theft on a very large scale which will affect us all ...

https://politicalvelcraft.org/2013/0...ou-an-apology/

[HarryWiener]

This is not a link to the Rolling Stone site. I couldn't find this article on the Rolling Stone Site. If you really want to convince me of anything, don't give your arguments false attribution.

[Alex]

This is not a link to the Rolling Stone site. I couldn't find this article on the Rolling Stone Site. If you really want to convince me of anything, don't give your arguments false attribution.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...l-yet-20130425

[podfish]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...l-yet-20130425

good article from a really good writer. But the headline is rather hyperbolic, like much of his writing. He hasn't suddenly become a truther or anything. He's been on this story for years - he couldn't be more pleased that the inner workings are finally getting wider attention. Don't look for a follow-up from him on chemtrails or burning snow - though I'd love to read anything he writes about Monsanto.

[arthunter]

He's new to me, ... has he written about other subjects? ... he seems so focused on this stuff ...

good article from a really good writer. ...

[podfish]

He's new to me, ... has he written about other subjects? ... he seems so focused on this stuff ...

Wikipedia's as good as anything for him - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi

He's a great political and cultural writer. They're very different but he and Gretchen Morgenson are two that I know of who seem to have based their careers on documenting in great detail how political and corporate forces shape our world. He's more overtly passionate; Morgenson seems to hope that by repeatedly reporting on outrageous corporate behaviors somehow the population or politicians will be forced to react. But I think they both share my bias, that almost all the malfeasance is right there if you care to look but it's just way too boring, and maybe not black & white enough, to get many people to react.

Morgenson was very unfairly treated by the daily show recently; she was made to look like part of a coverup of corporate craftywork because she hadn't written specifically about one particular instance. However, I certainly don't see anyone else approaching the range of issues she covers. And Taibbi is always fun - his outrage is much more apparent, plus over the years he's written on all kinds of topics. Neither resorts to demonization of those they're exposing, but instead usually focus on the full context in which they operate. Thus the hyperbole of this article - these manipulations were as blatant as a street mugging and don't fit the more typical pattern of willful self-serving ethical blindness that usually motivates bad corporate actions.