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Re:It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over ... by jazzyk on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:56AM (#22898993)
Slightly off-topic, but if you consider that 90% of "mainstream" media is owned by 6 huge corporations, which are interested in maintaining crony capitalism (of which the state is a central player) - then it would not be completely outlandish to think that the press is kinda part of state (conceptually speaking)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownersh...

Re:It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over ... by cvlasdkv on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:26PM (#22902129)
it's the difference between explicit and invisible force. people in favour of capitalism (in all its forms) consider the invisible forces "the way the world works".