• mathemachristian[he]@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    As long as the press is a capitalist enterprise it will be owned and directed by capitalists. This not a malfunction of the system, or an undesirable byproduct, its core to the maintenance of capitalism that its press be owned by capitalists.

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      5 days ago

      I don’t disagree but I also want to clarify that a press run or funded by the government is the opposite of a free press.

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        5 days ago

        Right, but it follows that at the moment no western liberal democracy has a mainstream free press since they’re all ran or at least funded by their liberal government or by private capital