Thread by @ggreenwald

One of the most transparently fraudulent and self-serving conceits of corporate media -- when they're trying to malign and demean those doing better than they -- is to accuse others of using fear and anger to attract an audience, as if corporate media doesn't do that. NPR:

As @mtaibbi documented in "Hate, Inc." -- what I regard as the best book on modern corporate media in the last decade -- the core model of corporate media is dependent upon dividing the citizenry and stimulating hatred and rage toward one another:

amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Today…

And as @mtaibbi wrote this morning, literally every accusation and grievance @NPR voiced about independent media which is succeeding more than they applies at least as much to NPR. The funniest one: those other outlets are bad because they're partisan.🤣

taibbi.substack.com/p/nprs-brillia…

"NPR has not run a piece critical of Democrats since Christ was a boy."

And yet NPR somehow finds the audacity to claim with a straight face that the problem with independent media is that they're one-sided and partisan. How is human self-delusion that intense even possible?