{"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<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-3.55.37-PM-1024x473.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-3.55.37-PM-1024x473.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-3.55.37-PM-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-3.55.37-PM-768x355.png 768w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-3.55.37-PM-1536x709.png 1536w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-3.55.37-PM-2048x945.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Journalism and corporate structures are incompatible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Billionaires are billionaires because they meddle and are self-centred. It&#8217;s never enough, and you can&#8217;t be a billionaire unless your core is one of psychopathy and a profound lack of limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">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<p class=\"\">Journalism is not a get-rich quick scheme. It is not a vanity press for &#8220;influencers&#8221; voguing. It is about information dissemination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">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&#8217;s self-serving opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">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, <em>rude.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It has to be other things, too, such as orignal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And you can&#8217;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<p class=\"\">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<p class=\"\">You are not supposed to be a stenographer for well-heeled grifters. Then you are their enabler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">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<p class=\"\">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":"<p>Journalism and corporate structures are incompatible. Billionaires are billionaires because they meddle and are self-centred. It&#8217;s never enough, and you can&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}