• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    20 days ago

    imprinting their biases and blocking stories that they don’t want out

    That’s it. That’s all they need to do to influence a country or population at the scale that billionaires operate at. They all have very similar opinions and preferences (otherwise they wouldn’t be billionaires).

    That so e people think that a publicly funded editorially independent press is somehow worse that this is maddening.

    It’s also not a zero sum game. We can have both, yet somehow some people think it’s one or the other.

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      20 days ago

      I hear you. And I agree, I would love more independently edited press out there. PBS and NPR seem under attack regularly by the right, but they do a pretty good job of being unbiased overall.