WASHINGTON, 11 Feb. - (ANA) - Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’s continued decimation of the Washington Post last week was just the latest example of billionaire media ownership endangering the free press in the United States – at the moment when American democracy needs it most.

 

Mere days after Amazon premiered its $75m Melania Trump documentary, Bezos – worth around $250bn – laid off 300 Post reporters, including the journalist tasked with scrutinising Amazon itself.

 

Of course, it’s not just the Post. Many of America’s most storied news brands – from the LA Times to CBS News – are now owned or controlled by billionaires who have cosied up to Donald Trump.

 

And don’t forget the tech CEOs whose black-box algorithms control which news stories much of the world consumes. Apple, Facebook, TikTok, Google – all run or owned by ultra-rich men who have kissed Trump’s ring (Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was even at the Melania White House screening).  - (ANA) -

 

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