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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by lr1970 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @05:14PM (#43188861)
> It's amazing how right-wing billionaire figures have captured social media platforms and news media outlets, such as Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter/X, Jeff Bezos's takeover of The Washington Post, Patrick Soon-Shiong's takeover of LA Times, and Rupert Murdoch’s continued control of Fox News/Sky News/WSJ/NYPost,

Tight media control and media empires are nothing new. I would recommend you to read about William Randolph Hearst [0] and his media empire in the late eighteen hundreds and watch the movie Citizen Kane.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by cauch on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @05:40PM (#43189106)
I think the point of GP is not that media control is new, it is that a big part of media control is right-wing and yet right-wing people keep saying that media are owned by left-wing. And of course, facts and reality are left-wing fake news and misleading info are free speech when it's convenient to them.
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