The News Craving
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The Pavlovic Today
The Pavlovic Today
“Much ado about nothing,” Shakespeare used to say. The Twitter Files were expected to be a document drop, but Elon Musk quickly turned them into access for only one journalist. The chosen one, Matt Taibbi was given exclusive access to the files he then broke the story about, one tweet at a time. Clearly, he is milking it, but is the teat dry? There’s no article, there’s no in-depth reporting, just snippets of what Elon gave him access to see and tweet about. By the end of the telegraphed Twitter thread, I was left disappointed. Not because there was no news in the Twitter Files like the establ…