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Matt Taibbi Left First Look Media After Female Staffer’s Complaint
J.K. Trotter · 10/30/14 03:10PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/lmijs5k65gei1nqzulmu/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Earlier this week, New York magazine’s Andrew Rice reported that journalist Matt Taibbi had left First Look Media, the journalism startup of eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Today four of Taibbi’s former colleagues reveal, in a detailed blog post published on First Look’s own site The Intercept, why exactly Taibbi left the company. It’s not pretty.
Adam Weinstein · 12/12/13 03:08PM
The Ratings Agency 'Morons' That Brought Us the Financial Crisis
Hamilton Nolan · 06/21/13 01:43PMBrazilian Newspaper Owner Murdered
Hamilton Nolan · 06/24/11 01:31PMJuan Williams: I'm No Bigot
Hamilton Nolan · 10/21/10 12:39PMTrue/ Slant Gets Bought, Loses Matt Taibbi
Hamilton Nolan · 05/25/10 01:22PMDoes True/ Slant Want Matt Taibbi to Think of Better Insults?
Hamilton Nolan · 04/14/10 03:14PMThis memo went out recently from Coates Bateman, editorial director of True/ Slant, to all the bloggers there. The subject: "Name calling within posts."
Russian Newsweek EIC Loves Hookers, Blow
Jeff Neumann · 03/24/10 06:11AMA Matt Taibbi Freakout
Hamilton Nolan · 02/24/10 04:54PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k3ruix5a3jbjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
"'Fuck you,' [Matt Taibbi] snarled, and then picked up his mug from the table, threw his coffee at me, and stormed out." It would be awesome if the final scene of this new Vanity Fair piece on the history of The Exile was a complex, multi-player joke by Matt Taibbi and Graydon Carter on everyone else in the media. Otherwise it's just bizarre. I mean it would be bizarre if Matt Taibbi were besties with Graydon Carter, but not as bizarre as Matt Taibbi snapping violently because a reporter failed to praise his work. Although maybe he still has the ol' horse semen running through his veins like journalistic fire!
Anyhow the whole story is great, read it all.
Comment of the Day: Haiti Is a Republican's Dream
Richard Lawson · 01/19/10 05:18PMMatt Taibbi Translates David Brooks
Hamilton Nolan · 01/19/10 12:03PMMatt Taibbi translates David Brooks' "Why Haiti is Really Fucked up" column in the NYT last weekend: "Although it is true that Haiti was just like five minutes ago a victim of a random earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people, I'm going to skip right past the fake mourning period and point out that Haitians are a bunch of lazy niggers who can't keep their dongs in their pants and probably wouldn't be pancaked under fifty tons of rubble if they had spent a little more time over the years listening to the clarion call of white progress, and learning to use a freaking T-square, instead of singing and dancing and dabbling in not-entirely-Christian religions and making babies all the fucking time."
[True Slant]
So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
John Cook · 11/18/09 06:19PMRolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com
Foster Kamer · 08/30/09 04:15PMGoldman Sachs Management to Employees: 'No More Douchebaggery!'
The Cajun Boy · 07/15/09 03:24AMLayoffs, Closings & The Birth of New Network
cityfile · 07/01/09 12:36PM• Cablevision is planning to launch an entire cable network devoted to nothing but wedding shows. So now you'll be able to watch Bridezillas 24/7. Yay. [B&C]
• It may not be over for Vibe. Quincy Jones, who founded the magazine in '93, says he's looking into buying it back and keeping it alive as a website. [Ebony]
• Spin reportedly laid off 20 percent of its staff yesterday. [Gawker]
• Gannett Co., the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S. by circulation, is reportedly cutting between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs at the company. [WSJ]
• More bad news for CNN: MSNBC is now in front on weeknights and Campbell Brown's nightly show continues to plunge in the ratings, too. [NYT, TVBTN]
• CNBC's Dennis Kneale doesn't like it when bloggers mock him. Will acting like a nut on TV fix that? No, but it sure makes for amusing TV. [Dealbreaker]
Prepare to be Outraged Again Over Wall Street Bonuses
The Cajun Boy · 06/22/09 05:08AMWhy Isn't Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone's Rockstar Writer, Blogging On Rolling Stone's Website?
The Cajun Boy · 05/13/09 02:44AMMatt Taibbi's Relentless Hounding of Tom Friedman Continues, Thankfully
Hamilton Nolan · 01/15/09 11:00AMRolling Stone Writer Tells Off National Review Writer On Crash
Ryan Tate · 10/14/08 11:02PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18s4ztprgeziyjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
New York magazine's daily online chats about the election are usually just mildly interesting, since the journalists involved tend to be overly polite to one another, because who knows who you're going to be sending a job application to someday? Even Gawker Media veterans and that Daily Kos maniac act all pleasant. But Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has never been one for such fraternal niceties, and when nymag.com threw him a sparring partner from National Review, the predictably caustic lefty went to work with his fangs, at one point typing, "tell me you're not ashamed." It was awesome and just really uncomfortable at the same time. Highlights: