This is the reason the phrase "free press" really rips my knitting. Its the billionaires press.
I understand the concept of a plethora of media sources and the view that they should not be unnecessarily restrained by the state.
But when hyper wealthy folk are making media a business loss leader to impose their own politics to drown out others and actually harming others in the process is not freedom of the press.
Raymond Russell
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