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  • imprinting their biases and blocking stories that they don’t want out

    That’s it. That’s all they need to do to influence a country or population at the scale that billionaires operate at. They all have very similar opinions and preferences (otherwise they wouldn’t be billionaires).

    That so e people think that a publicly funded editorially independent press is somehow worse that this is maddening.

    It’s also not a zero sum game. We can have both, yet somehow some people think it’s one or the other.













  • Now sometimes a pitcher may choose to “walk” a player by throwing 4 balls; pitchers may do this on purpose if they feel the batter could hit a home run)

    Could you explain that bit? The rest I get. Is a pitcher “throwing” a ball basically them deliberately pitching poorly so the batter can’t hit it?