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Tag Archives: Matt Taibbi
NYT’s Tom Friedman Is A Dummkopf
New York Times chinstroker Thomas L. Friedman, CEO of the Flat World Society (and bête noire of Crazy Train engineer Matt Taibbi), has a real headscratcher in Sunday’s Times about Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of … Continue reading
The Yin & Yang Of Michele Bachmann
Hey, kids! Want some fun activities for a rainy afternoon? Try this swell game: Compare and contrast (in clear, idiomatic English) 1) the current Weekly Standard’s lover – sorry, cover – story and 2) Matt Taibbi’s snarky (if journalistically suspect) … Continue reading
Goldman Sachs Sacked (Too Late) By SEC, News Media
First, the good news: Joe Nocera is back at the New York Times. Now, the bad news: Nocera’s Talking Business column, which has been on leave for what seems like forever, came back on Saturday with a bang headlined, “A Wall … Continue reading