free press is supposed to be the ultimate checks and balances on personal liberty.
So what does it mean when "free" press is all just owned by rich chucklefucks who have a vested interest in making things as unfree for the working class as possible?
It means that the alarm bells went off and people paid more attention to capitalism, and voting in people that actively worked against them, because those elected officials treated people they disliked even worse. Then we got a wanna be dictator that went full "journalists are an enemy of the state" because they say mean (TRUE) things about him. Journalists now choose between being able to eat, or sounding the alarm that costs them a job (and falls on deaf ears).
So what does it mean when "free" press is all just owned by rich chucklefucks who have a vested interest in making things as unfree for the working class as possible?
It means that the alarm bells went off and people paid more attention to capitalism, and voting in people that actively worked against them, because those elected officials treated people they disliked even worse. Then we got a wanna be dictator that went full "journalists are an enemy of the state" because they say mean (TRUE) things about him. Journalists now choose between being able to eat, or sounding the alarm that costs them a job (and falls on deaf ears).