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Follow DemLabs on our NEW social media! Fed up with corporate media? Get the facts with these 100 independent newsletters. Scroll through the app to explore different newsletters The truth will set you free - John 8:32 The fight to control the media narrative is on display… the media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery, which used to be called Time Warner and includes news division CNN, had agreed to be acquired by Netflix. But, as the deal was moving forward, Paramount Skydance launched a hostile takeover to get Warner Bros. Discovery for itself. David Ellison, son of right-wing billionaire Larry Ellison, who co-founded software giant Oracle, bought Paramount over the summer and appears to be creating a right-wing media ecosystem dominated by the Trumps. Part of the financing for his purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery would come from the investment company of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as from Saudi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds… The Paramount merger gave Ellison control of CBS, which promptly turned rightward.  During the Gilded Age, a similar moment of media consolidation around right-wing politics, a magazine that celebrated ordinary Americans launched a new form of journalism. S.S. McClure, a former coffee pot salesman in the Midwest, recognized that people in small towns and on farms were interested in the same questions of reform as people in the cities… Their carefully detailed studies of the machinations of a single trust, a single city, and a single union personalized the larger struggles of people in the new industrial economy. Their stories electrified readers and galvanized a movement to reform the government that had bred such abuses. — Heather Cox Richardson Find 100 of the best indepednent newsletters here. (Let me know if I missed any that should be added). Browse the list, or search by title, author or description. Top 100 Newsletters Watch on YouTube Find the right newsletter in a flash Search the newsletter app “https://newsletters.glide.page” by title, author or the description of the newsletter. In this example, I searched for newsletters about ‘disinformation’. This app was built with GLIDE software and can be used on a phone or laptop. It can be used immediately without having to install any software. Search by author, newsletter title or a keyword in the description of the newsletter Billionaire owned media serves billionaires’ interest — not yours Billionaires seem to have a thing for media ownership. Deep-pocketed, high-profile investors have spent fortunes acquiring mass communication platforms, including newspapers, magazines, and even social networking services. — Investopedia Paramount Global, CBS’ parent company, that it had settled President Trump’s private lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview was welcome news for its controlling owner, Shari Redstone… another bitter pill for independent journalism to swallow. The Washington Post — a newspaper whose motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness” — has pulled its editorial punches. The Los Angeles Times’s owner has thrown in his lot with those who say the media — including his own paper — is too liberal. A number of corporate and individual owners of media that promise to hold power to account have instead bowed to it. So too have the chiefs of two major social media platforms — among the richest people on the planet. — NPR Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos axed the Common Cause “Fire Elon Musk” ad. Trump has signed an executive order to defund PBS and NPR, a direct attack on fact-based and free public media.  Mark Zuckerberg owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced that it was ending fact-checking on its platforms. Sergey Brin and Larry Page owned Google said it wouldn’t integrate fact-checking into its search engine or YouTube. Take Away: Subscribe to independent newsletters for the facts — not billionaire generated B.S. Deepak DemLabs DISCLAIMER: ALTHOUGH THE DATA FOUND IN THIS BLOG AND INFOGRAPHIC HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND PROCESSED FROM SOURCES BELIEVED TO BE RELIABLE, NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED CAN BE MADE REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY SUCH INFORMATION. THIS DISCLAIMER APPLIES TO ANY USES OF THE INFORMATION WHETHER ISOLATED OR AGGREGATE USES THEREOF. 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