Indeed. Having the world's "professional" media editorialized by a handful of cartels/syndicates seems closer to an actual "empire" than Great Britain choosing

Indeed. Having the world's "professional" media editorialized by a handful of cartels/syndicates seems closer to an actual "empire" than Great Britain choosing to disentangle itself from the unaccountable bureaucracy that is the EU. Perhaps the true solution to "empire" in this day and age is to allow the public to directly elect the editorialists of said media cartels/syndicates, or, to use antitrust laws to break up trans-national media cartels. Either way, expect a large portion of the New-York-Times-reading population to prefer a rarefied panel of "experts" telling them why the British are idiots for preferring local rule over the de facto borderless globalist utopia ( for every nation other than Israel ).