# Quote - Jan 14, 2021 B - About the media and politicians selling hatred

Jan 11, 2021 post by Matt Taibbi:

=> <https://taibbi.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-media-system>

Final paragraph:

> What we've been watching for four years, and what we saw explode last week, is a paradox: a political and informational system that profits from division and conflict, and uses a factory-style process to stimulate it, but professes shock and horror when real conflict happens. It's time to admit this is a failed system. You can't sell hatred and seriously expect it to end. 

Maybe the national political media orgs have learned from the giant social media siloed cesspools how to earn revenue from division and conflict. It's better to sell "enragement" than to investigate and report in order to inform. The latter is too costly and boring. Enragement is better for the infotainment industry.


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Another excellent post made by Taibbi. Jan 22, 2021.

=> <https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-echo-chamber-era>


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