The Guardian - Jeff Bezos’s continued decimation of the Washington Post this week was just the latest example of billionaire media ownership endangering America’s free press – at the moment our country needs it most.
Mere days after Amazon premiered its $75m Melania Trump documentary, its CEO – worth around $250bn – laid off 300 Post reporters, including the journalist tasked with scrutinizing Amazon itself.
Of course, it’s not just the Post. CBS. Fox News. ABC. The LA Times. All owned or controlled by billionaires who have cozied up to this president.
And don’t forget the tech CEOs whose black-box algorithms control which news stories tens of millions of Americans even see. Apple, Facebook, TikTok, Google – all run or owned by ultra-rich men who have kissed Trump’s ring.
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