Carlos Slim is not just an ordinary investor in the New York Times. Twice he invested so big in the NYT that he essentially kept it from going under. So we have Jeff Bezos as owner of the propaganda rag WaPo and CarlosSlim as patron of the NYTines.
Kings, empowers, Tzars, etc also had far more money than their subjects but they did not have anywhere near the huge geographical reach of todays billionaire oligarchs like Jeff Bezos and Carlos Slim.
Exactly.. see the links about Slim
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