9mo ago

Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like

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Rule No. 1 of fighting fascism — do not obey in advance — crumbles as major newspapers kill endorsements to appease Trump.

They might be obeying, but you don't need to.

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CNN, WaPo, LA Times, NY Times are all aligning themselves to be the next Nazi Propaganda Machine.
Do not let them forget after this election. Free press my ass
- I understand the gripes about NYT wrt trans rights and Palestine and general "both sides" bs, but within this context about endorsements it's worth noting that they are publishing a big series of pro-Harris editorials in the last couple weeks of the election.
- Meanwhile, am I on acid or something, or is Rolling Stone suddenly one of the more credible American news media? How the fuck did that happen?
we need 70's style regulation. no more than one media outlet ownership for each area. heck I don't even think we should allow a company to own both a paper and a tv station in the same area anymore.
- Here me out, the biggest X companies should automatically be split on a yearly basis, with a ban on company mergers.
  
  Thing is if we taxed corporate income the same as personal and had a tiered system that would go up all the way to the maximum any entity makes it would do that naturally. Basically it would be a shocking system where the better you make money the harder it is to make more of it. Kinda like how major league baseball plays a harder game than t-ball.
- Hello from Canada.
  Rogers owns half the news, the entertainment, the telecommunications, the internet, and the cable.
  Bell owns the other half.
  
  Well, except CBC. But otherwise yes.
I think it's less out of fear and more about billionaire wannabe oligarchs tacitly supporting the candidate best aligned with their own interests.
- That road leads to the same place.
  
  but the implications are flipped. the headlines imply these institutions were in favor of democracy in the first place and doing a blunder.
  
  Agreed. It’s a distinction without a difference.
They aren't sucking up to Trump they are bowing to their god-money, from all the cash they'll get while the US burn.
Trump already hates Bezos for WaPo's reporting, he has nothing to gain by prohibiting the Harris endorsement. Edit: another poster said that Trump aligns more closely with his interests and that's probably it.
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