Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another

Matt Taibbi's book "Hate Inc." exposes how the mainstream media manipulates public opinion through anger, paranoia, and distrust. It is a valuable antidote to the hidden poisons dished up by those we rely on to tell us what is happening in the world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2021
Publisher: OR Books

In this extensively turbocharged book, now in a new post-election edition, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi offers an insider's guide to the diverse ways in which today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, Hate Inc. 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 has 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. After a 2020 election season that proved to be a Great Giza Pyramid Complex of invective and digital ugliness, Hate Inc. is an invaluable antidote to the hidden poisons dished up by those we rely on to tell us what is happening in the world.

In this extensively turbocharged book, now in a new post-election edition, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi offers an insider's guide to the diverse ways in which today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, Hate Inc. 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 has 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. After a 2020 election season that proved to be a Great Giza Pyramid Complex of invective and digital ugliness, Hate Inc. is an invaluable antidote to the hidden poisons dished up by those we rely on to tell us what is happening in the world.

Weight: 414g
Dimension: 139 x 208 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781682194072