Kitchener

“Why use the most advanced communications technology in history to teach people basic geography, or how World Bank structural adjustment lending works, when we can instead show people idiots drinking donkey semen for money?”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“You can tell a lot about a country by how boring its media is. If you turn on the TV and immediately feel like going to sleep, it generally means the political class feels secure.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“We manufactured fake dissent, to prevent real dissent.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“In fact, the tension between the sheer quantity of horrifying news and your real-world impotence to do much about it is part of our consumer strategy.

We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you feel over doing nothing as the world goes mad—you'll keep tuning in.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another