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Eoin Higgins
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Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
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Not Good Enough for the Nod: Essays on Bernie, Ted, and the 2016 Primary
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Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left:
"A good survey of the left-libertarian to right wing pipeline and the Silicon Valley-inflected that creates it, focussing on Matt Taibbi and Glen Greenwald. In its later stages, it might get a little too big in scope discussing the rightward bent of S"
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"“With a half dozen immense corporations dominating media and with non commercial media such as NPR, increasingly dependent on corporate funding, opportunities for discussion about systemic uses of power have become increasingly rare. In this context,"
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Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left:
"Higgins starts from asking how and why the career trajectories of Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald took the turn they did in the past decade or so, and goes from there into an analysis of the ideological development of Silicon Valley Technofeudalists "
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Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left:
"Inelegantly, our continuing Decision '24 coverage could be summed up as: what the **** is going on?
No book so far captures that sentiment as Owned. Possibly with the appending of a "dude." The book is a micro-biography of two journalists, Glen Greenw" Read more of this review » |
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“There are two types of liberals who are allowed on Fox News. The first is the ineffectual liberal, who stumbles over their words and acts as a foil for the other hosts. FAIR editor Jim Naureckas compares their role to how meerkats in the wild train their young. The mammals, found in the south of Africa, eat scorpions. To teach their offspring how to hunt, adult meerkats maim the arachnids. At first, they rip off the stingers and let the younger animals learn to hunt their prey. Once the young are a little older, adults leave the stingers on but hobble the scorpions so they can’t move as quickly. By the end, young meerkats are well versed in how to hunt and kill the creatures. Fox News liberals are the same. “They’re training people—‘How do you respond to liberal arguments?’—but you don’t want liberals to win, just like you don’t want your baby meerkat to be stung to death,” Naureckas said. “So, you bring out people who are hobbled.”20”
― Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
― Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
“It was a comment that could have referred to any number of white-collar occupations. But in December 2010, Aaron Barr, the head of private intelligence firm HBGary, was talking about journalists.”
― Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
― Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
