We should be going the other way, we should be forcing media outlets to become partially or fully cooperatives.
‘directives from up on high’ are a threat to independent journalism, when billionaires buy outlets, that’s just going to start happening eventually, if not immediately.
I mean, it’s not journalism, but look at musk and grok. Forcing grok to inject south african white genocide statements into totally unrelated posts? Imagine if this had actually been done competently? What if it already has been for other subjects?
Imagine if musk bought out a news organisation instead of just twitter?
Well people just like musk, except less of a melt and more scheming, already own media outlets.
Aint no billionaire going to tell them what to publish if they can’t use their power to enforce it, and they wouldn’t be able to do that if they couldn’t own the actual outlet. Because the outlet has to be owned by the people working there.
I’m sure there are holes in this idea, but it’s my best answer to today’s ‘media problem’.
Haha, awesome. At least people won’t need to buy as much toilet paper when the next pandemic hits.
Why does it feel like every UK govt.'s response to any struggling public good is “Well, there is a nice man here offering to buy it, and we don’t want to spend any money, so he’s going to have it”.
Because democracy is a temporary embarrassment to the feudal aristocracy and it is rebuilding feudalism through privatizing ownership of public goods.
I don’t understand the fuss.
When my family’s estate was threatened, we sold the eastern farm to that fellow from the club, and it all worked out swimmingly.
This is no different, we just need to pull up our bootstraps, and stop whinging about “chilling effects on journalism”.Now please excuse me, mummy needs a brace of pheasants by lunchtime.
Every time I see a headline about the UK government, it’s good odds that it’s something stupid that makes me want to move to another country.
And go where…
And what could go wrong…
