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“If you were to choose a metaphor for the 2024 #RepublicanParty , a #garbage truck chauffeuring around a #billionaire traveling around in circles and going nowhere, all for a #PhotoOp , is pretty spot on.” 🎯
In a #WashingtonPost OpEd, Jeff #Bezos spins some #bullshit in an attempt to excuse his #acquiescence to #Trump’s threats to perceived enemies & a #FreePress.
#billionaire #SelfInterest #WaPo #FourthEstate #democracy #fascism #tyranny
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#Journalists, please take note.
Given the recent capitulation of the #billionaire #MSM magnates, it should be obvious to everyone that claims of "editorial independence" have been used as cover for #CapitalistPropaganda for decades now.
Rupert Murdoch, as an example, has single handedly shattered the political #OvertonWindow in every nation under his sway.
Question: How do journalists worthy of the name challenge the billionaire narrative?
The fragmentation of the #press into the paid subscription #Wordpress #Substack #Medium model is doing the opposite.
Answer: the #PressCo-op
And, the answer ALREADY EXISTS in the form of the #fediverse. Journalists have to come together and form their own #instances and WE have to support those instances -- just like we support our own instances.
We have an incredible tool here people. We have an incredible tool to break free of paying the MSM and Wordpress style billionaires to destroy our #InformationEcosystem.
And they have destroyed it. They've built a billionaire propaganda machine in it's place while we stand around wondering
@Gargron @Strandjunker @taylorlorenz.mastodon.social @mmasnick @jeffjarvis @pluralistic @cstross
And see: Comprehensive list of federated journalists, here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…