Journalism author says mainstream media should be ‘up in arms’ over Matt Taibbi IRS threat – By Charlotte Hazard (Just the News) / Mar 30 2023
Rindsberg says he believes certain members of the media wanted Taibbi to get in trouble due to him reporting on the censorship of conservatives
Journalist and author of “The Gray Lady Winked” Ashley Rindsberg said Thursday that the mainstream media should have more concern and outrage over the IRS threat that independent journalist Matt Taibbi got after testifying before Congress.
“Not very long ago, the media would have been up in arms, howling with outrage,” Rindsberg said on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast. “Not even just if it happened to one of them, but specifically to Matt Taibbi who was once considered a great liberal journalist.”
Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on March 9, during which he addressed evidence that the federal government actively pressured Big Tech companies to censor user content. Taibbi said that after his testimony, the IRS used intimidation tactics by sending an agent to his home who left a note, claiming the agency rejected his tax filings from years prior due to identity theft concerns.
