Trump’s executive order stripped agencies of their independence by making them directly accountable to a part of the presidency: the office of management and budget (OMB). The OMB is led by Russell Vought, founder of the rightwing Center for Renewing America (CRA) thinktank and one of the primary authors of the Project 2025 plan for an authoritarian takeover of government.
you assume the media isn’t in favor of this
Who is “the media”? This sounds just as ridiculous to me as when conservatives say it. Reuters? AP? NPR? New Republic? The Atlantic?
Or are you talking only about Fox, OANN, etc?
There’s a wide swath of takes in the mainstream, and yes they skew wildly sometimes, but there is categorically no “The Media” monolith conspiring to do anything
The six companies and their stockholders who own the vast majority of those organizations.
You’re telling me the sources I mentioned are all owned by the same companies and push the same agenda?
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I found this with more info:
https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/
not sure of the credibility of the source but it seems correct. I see a lot of television news and entertainment channels split up between several companies.
i’m not saying there’s no issues and that these companies don’t deserve to be broken up, but railing against “the media” is vague and useless to me
Took the words out of my mouth.
Not all of them. Choose wisely.