Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

It’s a bad idea when billionaires own newspapers

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Tom Flannery
Oct 29, 2024
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It’s a bad idea when billionaires own newspapers. Billionaires have one overriding concern, always.

To protect their billions. Everything else is a distant second. And by “distant” I mean Australia / New Zealand type shit.

To me, newspapers are sacred things. My father worked at them his entire life. They are the pulse of great and trying-to-be-great ci…

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