Speaking plainly, what these modern media companies are doing is really a form of book burning. For an example of how that might work out, read Ray Bradbury’s masterpiece Fahrenheit 451. Large donors or sponsors are giving money to media corporations to bias reporting via “solutions journalism.” As we know now, many governments, including our own, are also influencing what is allowed to be discussed and in what ways. The sponsors can be nongovernmental organizations, governments, or global nongovernmental organizations such as the Zuckerberg-Chan initiative, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
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