In another example of the circular economy™, the EU funds journos and think tanks whose reports™ are then used by the EU and member-states to justify their policies
I don’t believe the MS media can survive without the state subsidies. Here in the US, they use NGO’s and billionaires intermediaries. For example Bezos owns Washington Post but Amazon got billions of dollars from the spook state to use the Amazon cloud services. I also suspect there have been infusions directly through the Federal Reserve. It is hard to know since nobody ever audit the Fed. It would not surprise me other Central Banks are doing the same.
Although MS media is losing readers and viewers, they are still important in that the Internet based media repeats and comments on stories originating in MS media. Many of the bigger players in “alternative” space got big through the help from the hidden hand. Increasingly, alternative media is no longer alternative. I try to stay away from big names on Substack
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And then some.
Also: abolish the EU.
I don’t believe the MS media can survive without the state subsidies. Here in the US, they use NGO’s and billionaires intermediaries. For example Bezos owns Washington Post but Amazon got billions of dollars from the spook state to use the Amazon cloud services. I also suspect there have been infusions directly through the Federal Reserve. It is hard to know since nobody ever audit the Fed. It would not surprise me other Central Banks are doing the same.
Although MS media is losing readers and viewers, they are still important in that the Internet based media repeats and comments on stories originating in MS media. Many of the bigger players in “alternative” space got big through the help from the hidden hand. Increasingly, alternative media is no longer alternative. I try to stay away from big names on Substack