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It boils down to two main things in that article, possibly one… the Billionaires bought the media knowing full well the power they could wield with it, but more so, dismantling education leads to an easily influenced populace.
The pandemic was a boom for them because it created another “lost generation” and pushed so many educators to hit the breaking point and quit.
The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves knowing the press is so entwined with the state. The press is supposed to be the check on the state, and somewhere along the line we lost sight of that.
My bet is when the equal time law and similar bit the bullet. I think it was Reagan's era but my American history is pretty bad so don't quote me on it.
1952 is the exact date actually.
That's when Rupert Murdoch started in media.
Fuck, he's old.
He is old. Old and evil, ruining multiple countries.