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	<title><![CDATA[My Interview with Matt Taibbi on His Book, the Media, the Election and His Spat with Erica Jong]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-cohen/my-interview-with-matt-ta_b_107853.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Below is the transcript of my Podcast interview with <em>Rolling Stone</em>'s Matt Taibbi. I'm a big fan of Taibbi's and consider him to be one of the most important journalists in modern times. I've referred to him before as "<a href="http://www.thedailybanter.com/tdb/2008/04/chomsky-on-acid.html">Noam Chomsky on acid</a>" due to his ability to make technical subjects exciting and accessible -- an important attribute in the vacuous world of ratings driven media. </p>

<p>The interview is based largely on his new book <em>The Great Derangement</em>, but...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-06-27T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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