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UK to allow foreign states 15% stake in newspapers (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

We should be going the other way, we should be forcing media outlets to become partially or fully cooperatives.

'directives from up on high' are a threat to independent journalism, when billionaires buy outlets, that's just going to start happening eventually, if not immediately.

I mean, it's not journalism, but look at musk and grok. Forcing grok to inject south african white genocide statements into totally unrelated posts? Imagine if this had actually been done competently? What if it already has been for other subjects?

Imagine if musk bought out a news organisation instead of just twitter?

Well people just like musk, except less of a melt and more scheming, already own media outlets.

Aint no billionaire going to tell them what to publish if they can't use their power to enforce it, and they wouldn't be able to do that if they couldn't own the actual outlet. Because the outlet has to be owned by the people working there.

I'm sure there are holes in this idea, but it's my best answer to today's 'media problem'.