First Look Media is going through yet another messy break up with one of its journalists.
Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein announced over this weekend that he was leaving the company after only 14 months on the job. In a series of private Facebook posts published by Jim Romenesko, Silverstein blasted First Look’s managerial “incompetence,” calling the company a “pathetic joke” for squandering millions of dollars on long-time Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi’s never-launched satirical site, Racket.
“I am one of a many employees who was hired under what were essentially false pretenses,” Silverstein wrote. “We were told we would be given all the financial and other support we needed to do independent, important journalism, but instead found ourselves blocked at every step of the way by management’s incompetence and bad faith …”
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— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 23, 2015
Silverstein declined to comment further on his departure.
