Kaivan Shroff: NEW: Conservative media group Axel Springer is acquiring POLITICO.

[BeckyDem]

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UGH!

[SheltieLover]

1. Why aren't ultra wealthy Dems buying up media outlets?

[BeckyDem]

2. I don't know.

Our regulations on concentrated media ownership are horrendous..it enables outcomes like this one.

[SheltieLover]

3. Agreed!

[BeckyDem]

6. Back at ya.

[SheltieLover]

15. ...

[whathehell]

17. Do the regulation on concentrated media & media ownership

not include Republicans?

[BeckyDem]

21. What I meant was, our regulations on concentration of media ownership

became worse because our lawmakers made it possible. The Telecom Act 1996 was a huge gift to corps but not to democracy.

Sorry for the confusion, I should have been more clear.

[whathehell]

25. I see..Thanks for clarifying

While agreeing that it's generally NOT a good thing, if the laws are loose, we Democrats may as well use them to our advantage as well. i.e., What's good for the goose..
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[Demsrule86]

14. Consider how some in our party have demonized wealthy Democrats. It is not surprising.

[Mad_Machine76]

4. So

they're just making the right-wing lurch official?

[BeckyDem]

5. Much worse than now is likely.

[Mad_Machine76]

7. Good point

[Klaralven]

8. Maybe they'll put it behind a paywall

But it seems that more of the better liberal news websites are behind paywalls than conservative web sites.

[BeckyDem]

10. It does seem that way. I never tracked that.

[yardwork]

9. How will we be able to tell?

[BeckyDem]

13. I think we'll find it reflecting a Fox veneer.

Worse than now is my guess.

[greenjar_01]

20. Worse than now is a high bar

[Demsrule86]

11. OK time for Politico to not be used as a source here IMHO.

[Elessar Zappa]

12. Politico was already iffy but yeah,

now it should definitely be banned.

[BannonsLiver]

16. So in other words, business as usual for Politico.

Are they still opining about how DeSantis won Covid? Fuckin idiots.

[greenjar_01]

18. In other words, nothing will change

[BeckyDem]

22. I doubt that.

They're likely to get worse. But I get what you're saying, they've been just awful.

[mcar]

19. Won't be much of a change

[Hortensis]

23. Fine if the anti-Democratic slant is more obvious to those missing it

hidden in the woods and if it's also harder to post Politico hits here.

Otherwise, how many read Politico as a regular source now? Not many. And those who aren't fooled by it into not voting Democrat now certainly wouldn't be by a new version aimed at a more overtly hostile audience.

[BeckyDem]

24. I disagree, somewhat. Agree how biased they are now, but the more

publications that are read by Americans overall for content that are apparently going all out Fox like, worries me.

There are too many like Politico already. After watching the insurrection, I see things like this as more warning signs that more people could get sucked in.

[Hortensis]

26. Of course, but the more overt deceit and hostility are,

the more they can be seen. There are tradeoffs, but maybe we have more to lose, as you say.

It's so frustrating, though -- people thinking poisoned narratives must be true because they saw in them in supposedly respectable journals.

[BeckyDem]

28. That is the concern, yes. The GOP members are ramping up to be the next Trump.

Another platform of "legitimacy" Fox style is dangerous.

[Hortensis]

30. And tRump's massive incompetence at least

was a break we can't expect again. I believe most of his followers are passionately craving leadership of the kind of vicious, Democrat-smashing strongman they thought he was.

[SidDithers]

27. Politico is already trash...

It's just going to get worse.

DUers - watch for Politico being used as a source.

Sid

[BeckyDem]

29. Yes, much worse.