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Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza

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523 points mhga | 3 comments | 08 Jul 25 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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chvid ◴[08 Jul 25 03:06 UTC] No.44496586[source]▶
This goes on all over western media not only the bbc.
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1. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[08 Jul 25 12:51 UTC] No.44499481[source]▶
I can see how it’s read that way but people really do seem to forget that billionaires buy media companies as an investment. It’s not a strictly financial investment, either; they get to shape public opinion with them.

How many people know that Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post? How many people know that MSNBC is owned by Comcast? How many people know that Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Post are all owned by Rupert Murdoch? How many UK citizens know that he also owns Sky News and The Times of London? How many people have heard the name Rupert Murdoch? (Everybody knows Elon Musk owns Twitter. Why do people say he bought an election again? How did that happen?)

They have a point and it is not anti-Semitic. The people who own the means to shape public opinion are exclusively in the billionaire class.

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2. dlubarov ◴[08 Jul 25 16:07 UTC] No.44501327[source]▶
Why would Bezos / Washington Post be an example of pro-Israel bias?
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3. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[08 Jul 25 16:36 UTC] No.44501647[source]▶
Well, it's not. It's an example of a billionaire-owned media company.