Business motives don’t explain the right-wing turn of the Washington Post and CBS. Billionaire ideology does.
We need to come to terms with the fact that––increasingly––media properties are overt ideological playtoys largely indifferent to ratings and clicks.
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The war on our sight
“It is not an accident that the richest, most powerful, and most sociopathic people in the world—from Trump to Musk to Bezos—are gobbling up and taking control of our media ecosystem while they’re gobbling up everything else.”
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