A lot of people describe our press as “free & open” because it is not owned by the state. They ignore that it is owned by six multinational conglomerates whose shareholders have a unified set of class interests that get reflected in nearly 100 percent of media coverage every day.
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Exactly. Corporate conglomerates, whether Media or agriculture or tech etc, are an aristocratic interest even more dangerous than govt because they can’t be voted out. Anti-trust laws underused because their $ controls Congress. See: Telecom Act 1996, and Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi
Oct 19, 2020 · 9:05 AM UTC
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