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!
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.