About Matt Taibbi
Mission Statement
Our mission is to bring old-school journalistic standards to a new-school media environment. We want to give our audience relief from today’s noisy media landscape. Editor-in-Chief Emily Kopp put it this way in her first post for Racket:
Citizen journalists have pierced the priggish facade of the corporate press, revealing the hollowness inside. Document diggers, open-source intelligence sleuths, and YouTube stakeouts are fettering out the inconvenient facts that old media stifles. That’s exciting. But it’s a standards-light Wild West out there.