Episode 365 Promo - Hate Re-Think (w/ Zaid Jilani)
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Journalist Zaid Jilani joins Bad Faith to elaborate on his recent controversial criticisms of Matt Taibbi. Are leftists simply angry that they can't control where Taibbi's interests have taken his reporting? Or has Taibbi taken a reactionary approach in response to bad faith attacks from liberals -- and, if so, is he justified? Is the left correct in mourning that, these days, his ample skills are rarely applied to issues that concern the left? Is it fair to accuse him of falling victim to audience capture? Or is Taibbi right that it's important to focus on criticizing liberals because they are, in fact, more dangerous and hold more institutional power than the right?
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| 0:00.0 | Dude, don't become the thing you, hey, you wrote a whole book called Hate Inc. |
| 0:03.6 | Hate Inc was about how MS Embassy and Fox both kind of created their own universes, |
| 0:08.9 | where they tell you how the other side's awful and evil. |
| 0:11.2 | Well, Matt, are you a component of hating now because you |
| 0:15.0 | think the Democrats are cold and you just like hate them and do you think they |
| 0:19.2 | hate you which probably considering the rough hearing he had on Capitol Hill, I understand why he would feel that way. |
| 0:24.7 | Do you not want Democrats to read you at all? Do you not want, are you not at all interested in what |
| 0:29.1 | Republican governors of the House or the Supreme Court or maybe the president in less than a year are doing you have to consciously avoid that |
| 0:36.3 | It's hard I want to say that I want to recognize that it's hard that we all struggle with it |
| 0:40.4 | But I put out a Congo episode that I know that nobody wants to watch |
| 0:43.0 | because I think it's important that I do a Congo episode. |
| 0:45.0 | I put out a Haiti episode that I know nobody wants to watch. |
| 0:48.0 | It gets 5,000 views on YouTube |
| 0:50.0 | because I think it's important to me. |
| 0:52.0 | If you give the audience a little bit what they want, |
| 0:53.4 | but the whole point of having an audience |
| 0:55.6 | that's committed to you somewhat |
| 0:57.0 | is that you can do your passion projects mixed in in between, |
| 1:00.7 | or things that you think are morally significant mixed up in between but to completely |
| 1:04.8 | abandon the stuff that brought you in this space to begin with that defined so much of your early reporting. |
| 1:10.9 | I know how this is going to sound like I I'm jealous or something, but if you're pulling |
| 1:14.3 | in Tybee kind of money, you can afford to lose a little bit every now and then. |
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