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404 Media / Jason Koebler / Oct 31, 2024
“We have seen over and over and over what happens when billionaires decide to exert their will on the prestige publications they decided to buy on a lark, and we have seen what happens when they lose interest in their side projects. It is never good for the people doing the work there…The ‘wealth and business interests’ of billionaire owners, as Bezos writes, are not a ‘bulwark against intimidation’ for journalism. They are, themselves, the biggest threat.”
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