{"id":2690,"date":"2026-05-01T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:13:00","slug":"you-cannot-have-journalism-outlets-owned-by-billionaires-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/you-cannot-have-journalism-outlets-owned-by-billionaires-period\/","title":{"rendered":"You cannot have journalism outlets owned by billionaires. Period."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Journalism and corporate structures are incompatible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billionaires are billionaires because they meddle and are self-centred. It’s never enough, and you can’t be a billionaire unless your core is one of psychopathy and a profound lack of limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalism collapsed for many reasons, but being owned by corporate overlords who look to squeeze money and free propaganda killed that profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalism is not a get-rich quick scheme. It is not a vanity press for “influencers” voguing. It is about information dissemination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalists need independence and individuality, and when a billionaire cuts your paycheck, you are a peon, a servant. You become a nobody who has to parrot your overlord’s self-serving opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If journalism were to ever resurrect, it cannot be owned by billionaires. It must be empirical. It must be independent. It must be fluid, innovative, experimental, and above all else, rude.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has to be other things, too, such as orignal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you can’t pull your punches. You are supposed to be a living nightmare to people who think having some money is a protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we had a thinking press, they would have made their own alternative to Google. They would have their own AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are not supposed to be a stenographer for well-heeled grifters. Then you are their enabler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalism clashes with corporate culture because corporations treat their workers as livestock, and to be report the truth, journalists have to be wild jungle cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no easy answers in life. You either struggle in a war; or never have a moment of happiness in peace. In my life, people have more fear during peace than they do during war, and there is a reason for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Journalism and corporate structures are incompatible. Billionaires are billionaires because they meddle and are self-centred. It’s never enough, and you can’t be a billionaire unless your core is one of psychopathy and a profound lack of limits. Journalism collapsed for many reasons, but being owned by corporate overlords who look to squeeze money and free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,460],"tags":[212,196,619,270,166,26,215],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","category-the-damage-report","tag-60-minutes","tag-bari-weiss","tag-guardian","tag-jeremy-barr","tag-journalism","tag-propaganda","tag-sharyn-alfonsi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t