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Comment by marcus_holmes

2 hours ago

Usually rich folks buy newsrooms not to make a profit, but to control the narrative.

No journalist joins a newsroom to become rich. Famous, maybe, but not rich.

The business model used to be advertising, but the internet destroyed that model. And we don't have a replacement, while democracy doesn't work without someone holding the politicians to account.

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