The journalists and the culture at the newspaper wanted to endorse Harris, but the billionaire owner swooped in and overrode all of that. This is obvious.
I realized there’s another layer to how messed up this is though. A newspaper changed it’s journalistic practices to benefit an aerospace company (Blue Origin). Why is a newspaper connected to an aerospace company?
More and more companies are being owned by fewer and fewer people. The American dream is dead, the free market is a myth at this point.
A primary function of Capitalism is to concentrate wealth. Preferably in as few hands as possible. Regulation is required to keep that from happening, particularly to such extents that cash/speech proxy crosses the threshold beyond which private citizens are no longer bound by State controls.
We probably blew through that tipping point sometime in 2012-2016, so now the train is off the tracks.
Major news papers owned by capitalist daddies are hedging their bets?
I wonder why they would do such a thing lol
Also, why ius there an expectation that they would endorse her anyway? Are DNC clowns finding out media belongs to owner?
DNC can’t even get basics done anymore lol
For anyone on a VPN, here’s the original source. Can’t help on the paywall front without suggesting software, but this is an important analysis of how newsrooms work for nonjournalists to read.
“Democracy dies in broad daylight” ? No; Fascism is born in silence.
I haven’t had internet access for a bit now. What happened?
