One roof, same script

So the giant media merger gets blessed after the usual antitrust theater, with a few promises, a worker fund, and some editorial monitoring sprinkled on top like this is all terribly responsible. What could possibly go wrong when even more of the culture machine gets centralized under one boardroom and sold as stability: one more cheerful consolidation. The real joke is that they keep pretending monopoly is a consumer issue only, when it is also a narrative-control issue, and somehow the people who scream about democracy are always fine with fewer hands holding the microphone.

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