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This is outdated. These days billionaires openly and publicly tell the owned media what to write. Bezos, in his own words: "I shared this note with the Washin
by praptak 2y ago
This is outdated. These days billionaires openly and publicly tell the owned media what to write.
Bezos, in his own words:
"I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. [...]"
- mandmandam 2y agoIt's true, it's not a very well kept secret. And still, even if most Americans distrust it, the vast majority of us remain wildly ignorant of just how bad our media really is. "The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know" - maybe even more true now than it was in 1993.
- kmeisthax 2y ago> personal liberties and free markets Codeword for "Jeff Bezos's continued monopolistic domination of online retail and logistics at the expense of everyone else". In other words, he's doing to right-libertarians what rich billionaires always do to right-libertarians. Play them like a fiddle.
- astrange 2y agoHe's retired. He doesn't care about dominating retail, he's busy dating Latinas.