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American journalist Matt Taibbi has said that the American press began its rapid decline during the Monica Lewinsky scandal that rocked Bill Clinton during his presidency. The mainstream media is no longer even attempting to portray objectivity, but simply “packaging anger” for the brainwashed American public.

In a new On Contact” episode, host Chris Hedges and Taibbi dive into the roots of the decay of journalism in the United States, which preys on prejudices and fear while pitting people against each other and paving the way for demagoguesAccording to RT, Taibbi says this all started back when Bill Clinton was president.

From Monica Lewinski to Hillary Clinton, the coverage of major news stories by the U.S. media has grown increasingly strident, with cable channels no longer trying to project a picture of objectivity but selling a story that makes people angry,” Taibbi, an award-winning journalist, and author says.

Taibbi says that the result of this journalistic decay and emotional fear mongering is a public addicted to hating each other.


Taibbi is the author of Hate Inc: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another.



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