Discussion for article #229963
The Alayne Fleischmann story is way more interesting than any backstage media drama. Shame the magazine didn’t work out but good to see Taibbi jump right back into the game.
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Not at this joint, it isn’t.
Glad to see Taibbi back at RS. One of his best stories is particularly interesting now that Obama is looking at Loretta Lynch for AG. She’s very good at handling banker types with kiddie gloves. Kind of like Mr. Holder, come to think of it.
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That was a great story. I couldn’t pull myself away until I finished it.
Pastry-white-guys are her forte?
jw1
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That could very well be, but I don’t want to make it personal. 
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“But after his ignominious departure from First Look…”
Hmm. Has the word “ignominious” recently acquired a new meaning that I am unfamiliar with?
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taibbi is a paranoid fuckstick with a flair for attributing his paranoid delusions to everyone he thinks is out to get him. he’s a douche. i like how he won’t talk about what happened, while skewering people in his stories who won’t elaborate on similarly sensitive issues.
maybe i should just make up what i think happened between him and his former employer and just throw it out there as fact.
Bankers, or more generally Wall Street, is who Obama was the candidate of. Was obvious during the 2008 campaign.
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You might as well - it would make a fitting addition to the rest of your fact-free ad hom attack on Taibbi.
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Good catch. You need to get a copy of the TPMz Dictionary. It has “special” definitions for “enhanced storytelling”.
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Go for it. We’re all ears.
It doesn’t seem to me that Taibbi has what it takes to be a manager. Taibbi has said journalists should be “dark, funny and mean.” Journalists sure. But Taibbi probably tried to manage like he writes --with a blow torch. And pairing him with Alex Pareene was bound to be like mixing gas and flame. Both of them a pair of loose cannons. Pareene is still there but he’s talking trash about Omidyar so his days as assistant edtor are probably numbered.
Romath, can you expound? Like a whole lot of other people, I was suckered into believing he was the candidate of the people, but his tenure in office and the lack of action against said bankers since the crash would seem to support your idea rather than the “candidate of the people” idea. Thanks.
fact: he is a paranoid fuckstick.
fact: he fills in blanks in his stories with speculation, but doesn’t ever identify it as such.
fact: doing so makes him a complainy douche.
fact: he won’t talk about why he broke up with the new venture.
fact: he skewers people in his stories (usually with the aforementioned speculation-as-fact) for similarly being tight-lipped.
which part, again, was “fact free”?