Paramount Buys the Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

From The Free Press mission statements: > Media Control > Powerful corporations want to decide what you’re able to watch, listen to, read and share. And runaway media consolidation among news organizations has squashed diverse, local and independent voices, leaving us in the dark about important developments in our communities.

With the recent alleged quid-pro-quo between Paramount and Pres Trump on the Skydance merger, and this merger - into an entity controlled by Larry Ellison - I’m not feeling to great about their ability to execute on that mission. Happy to be wrong though.

Most sectors of the American people have their heads constantly pumped full of barely different flavors of propaganda to manufacture consent to roll out the red carpet for billionaires. Thus, journalism has retreated to fits and starts of independent journalists and writers on substack who lack funding, distribution, promotion, or shared infrastructure to dispel lies and terrible ideas. And the left (excluding big D Democrats) has no funding or infrastructure either compared to the right, who have networks, PACs, and a whole support ecosystem. Every ordinary American should want relatively equally-matched spheres of influence to offer a more stable political tension through countervailing opposition rather than different flavors of wealth and ownership worship as the panacea while not doing much for ordinary people except screwing them.

I’m sick of living in interesting times. ;-;

This is great. I feel like we need more of the heterodox and alt-center opinions that the Free Press brings.

The reporting from the Free Press has been good, if they bring CBS up to their standard it would be an improvement. This is a good thing.