I wish this were true. But the machinery of capitalism can buy up and integrate private journalist institutions (or censor them out of existence) faster and more fluidly than individual information consumers can get out of the way.
Look at the way Newsmax has supplanted Fox, despite hosting all the same awful opinions from many of the same awful opinions. Or how Musk has gobbled up Twitter and Reddit, pushing a minority of a minority onto spaces like Mastadon, Bluesky, and Lemmy. Or Bezos buying WaPo. Or the Ellisons gobbling up CBS. Or Biden letting Donald Trump hand TikTok to his former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for a song.
I wish this were true. But the machinery of capitalism can buy up and integrate private journalist institutions (or censor them out of existence) faster and more fluidly than individual information consumers can get out of the way.
Look at the way Newsmax has supplanted Fox, despite hosting all the same awful opinions from many of the same awful opinions. Or how Musk has gobbled up Twitter and Reddit, pushing a minority of a minority onto spaces like Mastadon, Bluesky, and Lemmy. Or Bezos buying WaPo. Or the Ellisons gobbling up CBS. Or Biden letting Donald Trump hand TikTok to his former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for a song.
At some point, there’s nowhere to run.