Loved What This Comedian Said Will Shock You for skewering partisan theater? Hate Inc. by exposes the profit machine keeping that circus alive.
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- Behind-the-scenes exposé: media as profit theater
- Both sides get skewered w/ receipts
- Journalist-turned-whistleblower spills industry secrets
- Outrage = cash—the formula finally explained
If Maher taught you to laugh at the partisan circus while screaming internally, Taibbi hands you the blueprints showing exactly how the ringmasters keep us all buying tickets. This is the backstage exposé of how news outlets weaponize your outrage for profit, dismantling both CNN's sanctimony and Fox's fever dreams with the same forensic glee you've been craving since you realized both sides are selling you the same con in different packaging.
Where stand-up skewers the symptoms, this journalistic autopsy cuts straight to the disease—and it's as bracingly funny as it is infuriating. Taibbi writes like a comic who spent twenty years in newsrooms and came out wanting revenge.
The ringmasters have been selling you the same con in different packaging all along.
What Readers Are Saying
"Required reading for anyone who already knows how manipulative and Manichean today's media landscape has become...Taibbi doesn't just play the blame game but also highlights his own culpability." — Jeffrey Fisher, Goodreads
"Hate, Inc. is a book for everyone...valuable insights into how we’ve all been fooled for decades. Taibbi’s writing is pointed and provocative, exposing the media’s obsession with division and fear, and challenging readers to rethink their relationship with news." — David Wineberg, Goodreads
"Taibbi is entertaining and witty throughout... you'll not only see the world in a different light, you'll largely free yourself from Plato's cave." — Chris Dietzel, Goodreads
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