Source: Common Dreams
by Thom Hartmann
“I cancelled my Washington Post subscription Friday evening. Jeff Bezos, Mister ‘Democracy Dies In Darkness’ (the Post’s slogan on their masthead), by blocking his editorial staff from endorsing Harris chose darkness over his nation’s future, and I can’t support that. The big mistake John D. Rockefeller made back in the day (that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk appear committed to not repeating) was not buying a media outlet like a newspaper. Had John D. had that sort of a vehicle to mold public opinion, American history may be very different. By 1880, Rockefeller’s Ohio-based company controlled over 90 percent of the nation’s oil, owned 4000 miles of pipelines, and employed over 100,000 people. As Rockefeller’s oil empire got larger and larger, eating alive hundreds of smaller operations, ruthlessly driving up prices, destroying his competitors, and throwing workers out of a job, public outrage grew.” (10/28/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/democracy-oligarch-us-election