Journalists Thought Media Companies Should Be Socialist Charities

Make money? Have a broad-based appeal to the community? Are you kidding? Billionaire Media Owners Aren't the White Knights Journalists Dreamed Of

This is a left-wing article complaining that billionaires are capitalists. What do you expect from "Professional Journalists?" It was hard to find a couple of paragraphs that didn't swerve into communist theory.

The latest rude awakening comes at The Washington Post, where owner and Amazon.com Inc. chairman Jeff Bezos on Wednesday mandated that the newspaper's opinion pages only publish work that is supportive of "personal liberties and free markets."

Personal liberty? The horror! What's next? Responsibility for one's own actions?

And so they are quitting rather than work for an organization that is actually trying to make money. If they had to face facts, they would admit that newspapers are not making money.

The newspaper's top opinion editor, David Shipley, quit in protest, and journalists in the newsroom -- already in the midst of an exodus to other outlets -- threatened they would do the same if Bezos' meddling found its way to the news side of the operation.

As concerns about billionaire newspaper owners go, Bezos has received fairly stiff competition from Patrick Soon-Shiong, the proprietor of the Los Angeles Times, whose pivot to embrace the Trump administration has similarly alarmed staff, prompted resignations and thrown the future of an already-struggling enterprise beset by rounds of layoffs into further chaos.

Because you can cozy up to the Democratic President, or at least aid in covering up his cognitive decline, and that is Responsible Journalism™, but if you adopt any policy that might appeal to conservatives, or even centrists, that is a "threat to democracy," or something.

Hat tip to Clownfish TV and their video Journalists are RAGE QUITTING! Mainstream Media's Free Ride is OVER! It is a long video, at 23 minutes, but there is a perspective of someone who worked in regular media, before it became to insane.