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Matt Taibbi
Journalist
Matt Taibbi is an American journalist. He reports for Rolling Stone, authoring a "Road Rage" column for the print version, and a weekly online column, "The Low Post." Taibbi is well-known for covering the 2004 US presidential election, and for his earlier editorial contributions to newspapers the eXile, the New York Press, and the Beast. In 2008, Taibbi was a regular contributor to Real Time with Bill Maher. Much of his most recent reporting has covered scandals within the U.S. financial industry.
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What should have killed Trump's political career, only made him stronger. Matt Taibbi marvels at Trump's immunity to scandal and baffling resilience to normal media strategies.
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The Trump-Russia dossier reads as though the inside of the Kremlin is a high school cafeteria where you can overhear amazing state secrets all the time, says journalist Matt Taibbi – that's just not the way the Russians operate.rn
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“If you live life like there is no tomorrow, actually it doesn’t work because ultimately there is a tomorrow,” says Taibbi.
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When Taibbi began covering the U.S. finance industry, he was “continually struck” by how much it resembled the corrupt dynamic in the former Soviet Union.
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“I work hard to be honest with my sources, but I don’t go out of my way to make them feel good either,” says Taibbi.
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“She is a gifted politician, just in terms of getting people to connect with her on an emotional level in person,” says Taibbi. “It’s something that if you’re an experienced […]
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A conversation with the Rolling Stone correspondent.