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Designing Woman
1) Thus an alternative to Liberal Media is needed more then ever -- even if the alternative is not perfect.
The mainstream media bias is slight - 7% for most outlets. But the news is generally modern ideas overcoming the objectives of conservatism. That is how society advances. Today's Republican Party is trying to go backwards and retain economic ideas which are proven losers for the economy, but big time winners for the billionaires who own right wing media.
These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies
While a billionaire secretly funding a lawsuit to take down a news outlet may be a new way of using money to influence the media business, billionaires have long exerted influence on the news simply by owning U.S. media outlets.
www.forbes.com
'The most dangerous US company you have never heard of": Sinclair, a rightwing media giant
Sinclair is the largest broadcast company in America. But its partisan politics – and connections to the White House – are raising concerns
www.theguardian.com
Index of US Mainstream Media Ownership
Our goal is to provide radical transparency and a better grasp of the U.S. Mainstream Media by listing publishers (owners, majority voting shareholders, and donors of titles) considered major US daily news sources. We have time-stamped this index – May 11, 2021. To give the index structure, we...
projects.iq.harvard.edu
Liberalism gave you an automobile that working people could afford. Conservatism said "Cars will destroy our economy! Get a horse". Think of all of the blacksmiths and stable hands who will be put out of work when people get rid of their horses. What of the buggy makers, and the wheelrights!!!! What happens when they run out of fuel and no gas stations exist?
Now you look back and say that Henry Ford's assembly line revolutionized manufacturing, and the Model T revolutionized transportation. And yet today, conservatives are making the same arguments over electric cars and the fossil fuel industry.
There are billions of dollars to be made in upgrading your infrastructure, and converting to clean energy. Jobs and exports, and a better planet. But American Conservatives oppose all of it. Just like they opposed Henry Ford and his Model T.