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mountain grammy

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2. Taken from the article..

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2025, 02:30 PM

Wednesday

“Like Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the deal can be understood as part of a broader elite project to smudge the lenses through which many people see the world,” wrote the Defector’s Patrick Redford. “By installing Weiss, the richest people in the world have taken another step toward ushering in the toothless, acquiescent future of mainstream media they’ve always wanted.”

Certainly, that is something that Trump and his allies have worked relentlessly for.

Redford called it “yet another victory of marketing over its natural enemy, journalism”.

All about the money and controlling the masses.