Hate Inc.

Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another

By: Matt Taibbi

Narrated by: Robert Fass

In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it 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 mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism's dirty tricks.

Hate Inc. will be an invaluable antidote to the hidden poisons dished up by those we rely on to tell us what is happening in the world.

©2019 Matt Taibbi (P)2020 Tantor

A must read

A balanced critical look at the media and its impact on our everyday life.

Love Matt Taibbi

I’m glad Matt has being going over the Twitter files
But if you like noam chomsky for any reason, you need help

A must read for people wanting to better understand today’s political climate

This book is a phenomenal look into how the media’s profit incentives have put them in a position where dividing the country is the path of least resistance and it will also help give you the language to combat it

Should be required reading

Anyone who is interested in, or involved with current events, media, cultural shifts and divisions must read this book. Matt does an admirable job at identifying, investigating and describing the very salient problems in our current information landscape. These ideas are ones that I had swirling in my mind, but lacked the inside knowledge and understanding to properly formulate.

No sides are taken, no ideology is given a pass. The “left” and the “right” are both responsible for misinformed, tribalistic shift in our cultural. Certainly the electorate shares responsibility as we have, on a whole, become lazy, apathetic consumers, but we have no doubt been kicked, pushed and pulled that way by a media that no longer seeks to inform, but rather values pure attention over all else, in a new economy where time spent gazing at whatever screen translates directly into profits for conglomerates that seek to sell us more “stuff”.

Wonderful and poignant analysis. I hope Matt gets all the credit he deserves for this.

Great book! Must read if you're done being an ignorant participant

Didn't care for the robotic sounding narrator. Much would've preferred the author read it to embed more meaning in the words