Posted on 03/27/2018 6:03:11 AM PDT by C19fan
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was an epic fight of so-called muckrakers — journalists and novelists such as Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, along with trust-busting politicians like Teddy Roosevelt — against rail, steel, and oil monopolies. Whatever one thought of their sensationalism and often hard-left socialist agendas, they at least brought public attention to price fixing, product liabilities, monopolies, and the buying of politicians.
No such progressive zealotry exists today in Silicon Valley and its affiliated tech spin-offs. And the result is a Roman gladiatorial spectacle with no laws in the arena.
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The worst-kept secret of the modern age is that big corporations are mostly run by leftists and are far more politically correct than independent small-business owners who lack the clout to enact social change by fiat.
The Left which has abandoned class for demography sees these monopolies as ideal tools for the Cultural Marxist struggle.
answer: You have to replace that M with an F.
Investigative reporting is reserved soley for Republican politicians and conservatives. They are constant targets for the Left’s self-righteous outrage.
The fake journalists condone, tolerate, cover up, and rationalize corruption, lying, hypocrisy and mismanagement by liberals. There’s no daylight between the media and the Left.
I think this article says almost nothing. I can summarize it as: “Tech Companies Are Powerful”.
The media sold us out a long time ago. Locally owned media means competition and those that control the media don’t like that. So big dollars bought out the competition.
Sound familiar?
As usual VDH writes some of the most thought provoking articles that get right to the core of the issue he is writing about.
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