Perhaps it is just a coincidence that Jeff Bizos, whose company gave him Million dollars To the inauguration and pushing of Donald Trump 40 million dollars To license the story of the first lady, eat dinner with the president The night before He dropped a bomb bomb on the Washington Post employees. After only months Canceling its editorial team decision To support Kamala Harris, the owner of the billionaire in Washington announced that his newspaper will only publish the opinion that reflects his personal ideology from “personal freedoms and free markets.” It may be by chance that different companies have billions of dollars at stake in government contracts.
The last time, Bezos was forced to explain his interference in the independence of the editing of his newspaper, he confessed to the complications formed by his countless commercial interests, and writing in an article “You can see it as a network of conflicting interests. Only my own principles can raise the balance from one to another.“ We now know that these principles will bring the balance of the pages of the Washington Post towards the personal views of a man who is very rich and very afraid It disturbed a volatile and warm president.
The outlets remove or close correspondents. Government is the prison prison and news rooms. Large technology companies put their shoes on the necks of the media.
The publication problems of the La Times, to which the billionaire Patrick owner went soon Large lengths To reshape his paper coverage to be more suitable for Maga, it leads the degrees of employees and subscribers in this process.
It is a shameful thing to see a esteemed news institution that has been reduced to billionaire games. Bezos and SHIONG will soon have these newspapers and they can do with them as they see suitable. But having the media outlet is to own more than one print press, web servers or television cameras. The ownership of the media has a general commitment to some of the principles that, at this exact moment, It is subjected to a direct attack By the President of the United States. If you are not ready to be in the defense of freedom of the press, you should not be in the field of news at all.
It is not only billionaires. Many companies in media organizations, vectors with various commercial interests, fail to defend the values of free, diverse and powerful press. Often they seem to leave their other (most profitable) commercial interests that go beyond the public interest in their media holdings.
To surprise anyone, Donald Trump launched multiple legal attacks against major media, personally and through government agencies. Expect this plan Throughout the campaign. The most surprising is the number of media organizations that bow to pressure, even when legal experts agree that they should not. ABC Disney, ABC, agreed to pay Trump with more than $ 15 million to settle this issue Almost definitely He could win the trial. Disney took more than her fair share of the masses of the Maga movement and may have concluded that he would not deserve his fight.
CBS Port is said Vision A similar settlement with Trump for his base claim that “60 minutes” was incorrectly edited with Kamala Harris. Worse than that, the president has recruited the chief censorship, Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Car, to launch an official investigation into this matter. This issue is a headache that CEO of Shari Redston company does not need because it continues to sell the company’s high risk, a deal that the Federal Communications Committee itself can crush itself.
Some media organizations stand for themselves and the most at risk. The Associated Press is prosecuting to cancel its ban from the events of the White House. Gannett and Des Moines Register reduce Trump’s ridiculous lawsuit, claiming that a poll had not liked “consumer fraud”. But these are media organizations first and foremost, not the main blocs with extensive resources to throw them in their legal defense. If huge companies such as Disney and Parapaont can be easily intimidated, their viewers will not wonder whether their news rooms may start with pulling punches to avoid more legal exacerbation? What is the message that you send to the future goals of the Maga hostility, especially the small, independent and local ports without an unlimited means of defending itself?
It may not really matter anything if readers can connect to the Internet to find any point of view of their heart’s desires. This is one of the justifications in Bezos for the diversity of thought in the opinion section. But for a man who already a large part of the Internet, he must really understand the problem inherent here very well – imposes the lack of technical technology in an active ideology to control the flow of information.
Most people get their online news from social media, as the White House noticed when he called “independent journalists, podcaster, social media effects, and content creators” to occupy the front row from the press briefing room. But social media is a terrible place to get reliable information, not the least of which is that it lacks any transparency at all. Even engineers who work on social media algorithms cannot tell you exactly why a specific part of the content makes it to the highest summary. This is before their owners put their thumb on the scale.
X -Press algorithm is punished by promoting its violation of fake news and promoting rumors. Elon Musk uses the same platform to supervise the press and Censorship Journalists who criticize him. He also converted the site into a larger and hateful information by moderation in content content. The definition is not better. Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will follow the progress of Musk to verify the facts on Facebook, but his company’s hostility towards the press is returning. Already Stole The news industry for billions in revenue, social media sites have long made the decision to extract news, from intent Burn it on topics To completely Ban on Facebook in Canada.
The Internet is currently created, not an adequate alternative to strong and pluralistic media. Technology companies have a financial incentive to enhance low -quality information on the press and use their strangling across online spaces to control the flow of information. We must be in their strength, and do not move to them for all our news.
So that it brings us back to the ownership of the media in our current moments. Freedom of the press is often treated as a sub -group of wider freedom of expression, but it differs from the basic freedom of expression. Yes, freedom of the press is the right to publish without restrictions by storming the unjustified government. It also requires moral obligations by the media itself – the goal, fairness, and transparency, to name a few. Journalists know this because they did not participate in it. Their companies should also learn it. Not for nothing, but if they do not defend the conditions of freedom of the media that enabled their historical works – and American democracy – from growth, what will remain for them if Trump destroyed the free media ecosystem?
Everywhere you look at it now, the press space is restricted. the Index of Freedom of the World Press Published by Reporters Without Borders every year, the freedom of the press appears in the global decline. The outlets remove or close correspondents. Government is the prison prison and news rooms. Large technology companies put their shoes on the necks of the media. People who have the greatest means to invest in the future of journalism – who literally possess their present.
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