politics

Demand free speech rights for leftists. That's literally how the conservative takeover started: demanding free speech rights for conservatives, leading to the Telecommunications Act which empowered this Sinclair slime.

And reinstate the restrictions on media ownership that were dropped with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

And citizens united, and the Frank Dodd act while you’re at it

I'm not so sure about that. The Fairness Doctrine required that all sides be presented as having equal weight, which in our time would include Nazism, eugenics and Fascism.

This is why, I suspect, that millennials and Gen Z are getting their news and information from nonstandard sources, like podcasts and Tik Tok.

My old polisci professors would probably argue that there are right wing, left wing, and centrist forms of liberalism.

The political compass is an arguably silly example of this, but there is a point that being on one end of a social spectrum doesn’t mean you’re on the same end of an economic spectrum.

Demand free speech rights for leftists. That's literally how the conservative takeover started: demanding free speech rights for conservatives, leading to the Telecommunications Act which empowered this Sinclair slime.

Dems and Republicans are identical parties on economic policy (note I said economic, not all policies).

Patently untrue.

I mean, I get what you're trying to say. That both parties serve the interests of the rich few over the majority. But it's just false that they are identical parties on economic policy.

I mean, even economically they aren't the same. Biden's advancing a wealth tax, can you imagine Trump or McConnell doing that?

I don't think they're the same on economics, neoliberals push for advantages to entrenched entities and the status quo, while post-neoconservatives push for rapid moves and sabotaging existing systems

The combination of the two is crippling, and they have a lot in common (like cutting welfare programs and shaping the landscape to put up barriers of entry to reduce competition), but their styles are very different

An important thing to note - it's not a single dichotomy, there's 3-6 axises, minimum.

I assume they're willing to take the loss to help preserve the political landscape that allows them to protect and grow their financial interests in other markets. They may not really care if the media outlets are profitable.

Opinions are cheap. So cheap people will offer them up on the internet for free.

Journalism is expensive. Gotta chase down leads that go nowhere. Gotta work hard to confirm a source, because you don't want to be just printing rumours, right?

Right-wing media doesn't need to pay the cost of journalism. They print opinion and rumours. So a right-wing paper is cheaper to run than a paper that has journalists working for it.