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Seems to be appropriate reading today.

“Newspapers in Nazi Germany”

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/newspapers-in-nazi-germany/

The Washington Post dies in broad daylight.

So can YouTube links not post nicely here?! Is there a way to get a thumbnail to show up?

Well, so Meta gets news and headlines for its LLM but we users are all but restricted from sharing links to news on our own.
Meta AI gains access to Reuters news content in multi-year deal https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-ai-gains-access-to-reuters-news-content-in-multi-year-deal-142214611.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Sometime ago, I asked someone who had been at the Post--not who you think--whether the Post could be saved. The answer was immediately and unequivocal No. #BrokenPost

The Cartoon. Worth one laugh.... https://highlandscurrent.org/2024/10/25/the-cartoon-436

@aka_quant_noir Newspapers have always been owned by rich assholes.

@fraying

And this is why we don't want, need or should tolerate corporate media, especially when majority owned by single billionaires. Anytime a billionaire buys a media company, the FEC and FCC should step in and shut it down.

@fraying Added my pebble to the avalanche here and as I did so it was fun to watch the N in the live "view N new comments" counter ticking up so fast that the counter was jumping by 10s and 20s instead of individual numbers, with like 80% of them being immediate cancellations and 100% of them being completely furious and disgusted