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There’s been so much going on in the world so I wanted to take the time to say that the threat of Trump’s cabinet is looming closer and closer each day.

There is something you can do about this and it only takes a few minutes. Call your senator and ask that they oppose Trump’s radical cabinet picks.

Say no to Russian-asset Tulsi Gabbard, xenophobic Pete Hegseth, Qtard Kash Patel, nutjob quack RFK Jr.

There's been so much going on in the world so I wanted to take the time to say that the threat of Trump's cabinet is looming closer and closer each day.

There is something you can do about this and it only takes a few minutes. Call your senator and ask that they oppose Trump's radical cabinet picks.

Say no to Russian-asset Tulsi Gabbard, xenophobic Pete Hegseth, Qtard Kash Patel, nutjob quack RFK Jr.

Basically prior to the being sold the paper was profitable every year except the last year. Then in 1976 Murdoch bought. I put an excerpt that explains the market challenges of running the paper. Despite these market challenges he ran it for a long time at a loss. It's my opinion that the purpose of owning the paper which loses money every year is influence and power, not just numbers on a balance sheet. That's why Murdoch ran it at a loss for so long. Likely he believed the influence and power netted more money for him overall.

The article says:

The Post at this point was the only surviving afternoon daily in New York City and its circulation under Schiff had grown by two-thirds, particularly after the failure of the competing World Journal Tribune; however, the rising cost of operating an afternoon daily in a city with worsening daytime traffic congestion, combined with mounting competition from expanded local radio and TV news cut into the Post's profitability, though it made money from 1949 until Schiff's final year of ownership, when it lost $500,000.

When you own a newspaper you can do things like this: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/new-york-post-writer-resigns-kamala-harris-book-story/

CEO of Tesla and acting President-elect Musk is going on a neo-Nazi binge endorsing far right candidates instead of properly running the companies he's involved in such as Tesla.

In addition Tesla is considered one of the most unreliable car brands according to: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-reports-reliability-rankings/

Moreover Tesla has the highest fatal accident rates of all car brands according to: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/

Also there are privacy implications with using a car that could in theory spy on you: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints/

Now that more competent and establish brands are making EVs there's no reason to buy a Tesla if you want an EV. I'm not here to recommend another brand, I'm just here to tell you that your next EV should be anything other than a Tesla.

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3ldyajiajrk2w

Archive link: https://archive.md/es2lC

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/aaronsojourner.org/post/3ldwx5aspfc2f

I'm really impressed by the courage of the Amazon workers who are going on strike. I was thinking what if one of the conditions of the strikers is that Amazon stops funding Republicans. Then I realized more broadly what if workers in all companies went on strike and demanded that the companies no longer funded Republican candidates. What are your thoughts on this?

Assets owned by Rupert Murdoch or Fox News are not committed to journalist integrity and not committed to reporting of facts. This is why it's important to avoid supporting those websites if possible.

Often times websites like nypost just summarize articles written by other people. If you are about to share a link from one of these websites it's better to find another source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Fox_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_Corporation_subsidiaries

Also if someone has a Reddit account could you try to advocate for this on Reddit too please?

Here is a possible message you could use to advocate for this. I would recommend personalizing your message before sending. In a comment I will show an example how I tweaked my message. In fact this was the message I was about to send to the moderators of politics@lemmy.world but then I read their rules and realized I could update my message to make the message more personal.

According to Wikipedia "Many of [Rupert] Murdoch's papers and television channels have been accused of biased and misleading coverage to support his business interests and political allies". For this reason I'm calling for Murdoch and Fox websites to be considered "B"-tier sources, that is to say other websites that have a better reputation should be preferred. Often times articles on websites such as the New York Post (nypost) and Fox News are nothing more than summaries of articles from other reporters with added bias. A New York Times article (archive link) has mentioned this practice.

I see the following possible actions that could be taking on the Politics community.

• The automoderator can reply to any link to a Murdoch owned website and issue a warning. The warning could be something like this:

The following website is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Assets owned by Murdoch have a reputation for bias and misleading coverage to support Murdoch's business and political interests. Please use caution when reading and sharing the article and seek out more reputable sources. Consider using an adblocker such as uBlock Origin when visiting the link or use the archive link instead of visiting directly.

In the future note that it's recommended when posting to Politics to use reputable sources. We discourage the linking of this website unless the reporting on the specific article you posted was original and verified.

• People should be encouraged to seek another more reliable source if possible unless the link offers unique and verified reporting.
• People visiting the link should be encouraged to use an adblocker such as uBlock Origin
• Instead of linking directly to the website an archive link should be visited.
• If the article contains misinformation or disinformation it should be removed. (I'm thinking you all already do this but perhaps articles on these website should get more scrutiny or be removed if a better source exists)

Wikipedia has a list of entities that are ultimately owned by Rupert Murdoch:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Fox_Corporation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_Corporation_subsidiaries

I hope you will consider taking a stand for journalistic integrity and truth and consider deprioritizing Murdoch owned assets. Thank you so much for your time!