r/IAmA (previously) has been gaining in popularity since
Barack Obama stopped by to answer questions last August. Yesterday
Bill Gates showed up to talk about his charity work and his global concerns; earlier in the week, journalist
Matt Taibbi explained why breaking up the banks should be the Holy Grail for activists, and The Pirate Bay's co-founder
Peter Sunde talked about why he hopes TPB dies soon.
Dan Rather fielded questions via
video recordings, while
Arnold Schwarzenegger preferred to
write his answers down (warning: kind of illegible). In the last month alone, three members of the House of Representatives showed up –
Jim McGovern (MA),
Jared Polis (CO), and
Zoe Lofgren (CA). Meanwhile, actor
Dante Basco admitted he had a crush on Emmy Rossum
while she was doing a simultaneous AMA; needless to say,
Redditors mentioned it to her, resulting in an adorably awkward exchange between the two.
posted by Rory Marinich
on Feb 12, 2013 -
66 comments
"2.
Airman Thompson possesses outstanding talent in writing. He has imagination, good use of English, and can express his thoughts in a manner that makes interesting reading
3. However, in spite of frequent counseling with explanation of the reasons for the conservative policy on an AF base newspaper, Airman Thompson has consistently written controversial material and leans so strongly to critical editorializing that it was necessary to require that all his writing be thoroughly edited before release." - A memo regarding Airman Second-Class Hunter S. Thompson's reporting for the base newspaper.
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posted by the man of twists and turns
on Oct 13, 2012 -
27 comments
Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer.
"Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it. Just write that."
I put down my notebook. "Just that?"
"That's right," he said, signaling to the waitress for the check. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail. You can end the piece right there."
posted by vidur
on Feb 16, 2011 -
126 comments
The Baffler, storied zine of cultural and political analysis and criticism, is
back, and excerpts of the latest issue are now online, including a review of Rod Blagojevich's memoir by Matt Taibbi, as well as articles by Christian Parenti and Walter Benn Michaels.
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posted by carrienation
on Jan 12, 2010 -
13 comments
Matt Taibbi vs. David Ray Griffin Taibbi, to whose writing Metafilter frequently links, and who is currently on retainer at
Rolling Stone, takes on Griffin, who is perhaps the most prominent member of the so-called "9/11 Truth Movement," in a knock-down, drag-out multiple-round bout (in three parts).
Part II.
Part III.
posted by Hat Maui
on Oct 6, 2008 -
99 comments
Matt Taibbi checks in with 'Excerpt from The Rise and Fall of the United States (Putnam, 2037), William Shirer IV. From the chapter entitled, "The Anschluss Begins."' Typically clever stuff, especially the Franzen bit.
posted by GriffX
on Oct 21, 2003 -
5 comments
"Taibbi launched the Guillotine Channel. For the premiere, Taibbi assigned ten crack Russian mobster employees to arrest Fox News chief Roger Ailes, drive him to the TGC studios in Burbank and, using a restored 18th-century French guillotine, chop off his head on live television. The privilege of releasing the rope was awarded to an Hispanic single mother in Los Angeles, whose application was chosen via a televised lottery..."
posted by GriffX
on Jul 19, 2003 -
4 comments
At D.C. protests, a few hundred thousand go missing - "Like most young Americans, I've been trained to think of protests and demonstrations as something shameful and vaguely embarrassing-something one outgrows, like Journey albums, or those hour-long showers you took when you were eleven and twelve."
Stinging dead-on reportage about the media's coverage of the anti-war movement, from
Matt Taibbi.
posted by GriffX
on Jan 29, 2003 -
66 comments
