We all have our favorites in the media world, and along with Bari Weiss, Nellie Bowles, and Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi fits the bill.
I have been a paying subscriber to his Substack for a long while now, and if I add up all my paid subscriptions it turns out I spend a lot more on independent media than the Pravda Media I have to read for my job. (Hey, Salem, it would be nice to get a reimbursement. Just sayin’.)
That’s noteworthy because in many cases I am paying as much or even more to read one or two authors than I am for the output from the entire New York Times staff, and I still consider these subscriptions a great deal even though the aggregate price makes me wince.
That is because the independent media is a “no bulls**t zone.” I don’t always agree with what I read (Glenn Greenwald, for instance, alternatively infuriates and impresses me),…
