The Washington Post planned to endorse Kamala Harris over Donald Trump before owner Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, decided against it, the newspaper reported.
When the billionaires who own the media and the highest level of government are in bed together so long as the government continues to tailor it’s policies to ensure that the wealthy stay wealthy, then the line is so blurred it might as well not exist.
I don’t know if this is the free press cowering, or the free press being bought out by rich people. Either way, it’s some bullshit.
Private ownership of a news outlet breaks every definition of “free” in “free press”.
A “free press” no longer exists.
So government owned news is better?
When the billionaires who own the media and the highest level of government are in bed together so long as the government continues to tailor it’s policies to ensure that the wealthy stay wealthy, then the line is so blurred it might as well not exist.
Free press is your uncle’s Facebook rants