Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another - Paperback

by Matt Taibbi (Author)In this characteristically turbocharged book, now in a new post-election edition, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider’s guide to the variety of ways today’s mainstream media tells us lies. “Where other mainstream news sources fail, Matt Taibbi madly embraces his role as an honest political observer/writer/citizen in a democracy. ” - Janeane Garofalo “A raucous updating of Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman’s classic dissection of capitalist news. Its message is hilarious yet grim: behind the buffoonery of the 24-hour partisan news machine is a propaganda system devoted to upholding the power of entrenched elites.” - Jacobin “A bracing piece of media analysis… Should be required reading in all three remaining journalism schools.” - Paste Part tirade, part confessional, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as “the news” is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business. In the Internet age, the press have m