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Is it really those 6 billionaires opinions in every one of the stories their media presents every day? Seems like a stretch. I could see them imprinting their biases and blocking stories that they don’t want out, but colluding to control the narrative gives them too much credit I think. I’m lucky enough to have some decent independent journalism in my area, but I would love if there was more!

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deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz

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6 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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Twista713@lemmy.world

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6 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.

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