Unless you can substantiate that there is some kind of editorial line being pushed, this comment is just FUD playing on xenophobia (foreign sounding names scaaaaaary). Is there a Bari Weiss kind of character running the Independent?
If your objection is to rich fucks owning media, I’m with you.
If your objection is to non western rich fucks owning western media, my reaction is a shrug.
All rich fucks became rich fucks by having some kind of fucked up backstory. Non western rich fucks exist. They are in not inherently worse than western rich fucks. All rich fucks should have no editorial say in media. Boo to any rich fuck who does get an editorial say, from Musk and Bezos on downwards.
Unless you can substantiate that there is some kind of editorial line being pushed, this comment is just FUD playing on xenophobia (foreign sounding names scaaaaaary). Is there a Bari Weiss kind of character running the Independent?
More interesting would be to link to the MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-independent/
Evgeny Lebedev is the son of a Russian oligarch former KGB spy and Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel is a member of the Saudi royal family.
If your objection is to rich fucks owning media, I’m with you.
If your objection is to non western rich fucks owning western media, my reaction is a shrug.
All rich fucks became rich fucks by having some kind of fucked up backstory. Non western rich fucks exist. They are in not inherently worse than western rich fucks. All rich fucks should have no editorial say in media. Boo to any rich fuck who does get an editorial say, from Musk and Bezos on downwards.