Big media -- the system whereby major media companies are bought and sold in a way which limits political discourse -- is becoming a big problem.
Take for example news in today's New York Times that a German (!) company is buying Politico, an online news source valued by many for its insider information and astute commentary. This is the kind of transaction simply should not be.
This sickening buying-in (quite literally) to Washignton, D.C. politics by a foreign company raised instant alarms with me. Is there no hope for prohibiting such journalistic intrusions?
There is at least one important person who wants to take on Big Media -- in this case Big New media. That one person is none other than President Joe Biden, and the company is none other than Facebook. Our home-grown cable news channel this evening alerted me to the desire of the Biden Administration to break up Facebook into independent and smaller companies which would be much less likely to dominate the spread of minsisnformation, for one thing.
May this effort succeed. And may it lead to a more thorough cleaning-up of the rotten power system of Big Media in America.
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