Musk, Bezos and Murdoch: the media men running the world | The New Statesman

[@stuartthorpe]

Excellent, balanced analysis. Thank you.

[@ManfromuncoolBlogspotstars]

The best I've yet caught on N.S. : tragically riveting.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

It's often difficult to find out who TNS's guest is. This guest is Alison Phillips. 🤔

[@hiddencornersofnorthyorkshire.]

Trust. The whole of this discussion shows why people shouldn’t trust the media.

[@Squarepeg57]

This was very good.

[@Squarepeg57]

It would be useful to know who it is that’s being interviewed!

[@shadeyladd7276]

The NYT sacked Chris Hedges

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Who still reads newspapers?

[@Jabskin]

The newspapers are online now

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

@@Jabskin - How are all those paywalls working out for them?

[@227fly3]

Free Tory press

[@andrewwebb9426]

Great leaders and influencers throughout history have often tended to control the dominant communication system of their time. We’ve had religious leaders with verbal communication and influential philosophers with pamphlets and books. The latter morphed into newspaper owners and, surely, now we have electronic communications? Musk is clearly ahead of that game and my guess is that the Murdoch family will simply fade out unless they adopt modern methods. Bye bye our beloved newspapers and even the dominant trusted broadcasters like the BBC or CNN and in will come those awful influencers and their podcasts. I think even Fox News and their right wing like here in UK will go by the wayside. As the Americans have said so simply “that’s progress”.

[@Dantianblue]

A concern as t'internet is unregulated and personal devices are a fantastic tool for getting into an individual's head.

[@Peter-ud9bx]

Only the western world.

[@xaktacit6009]

Yeah perhaps Andrew Marr can interview ALL thier dads for the world view! 🤬

[@SkeletonDrums1]

Ruining the world more like!

[@PaulPerfitt]

Very balanced.

[@vickibolsover6559]

The GQP helped create Frankenstein's monster and now Trump wants ultimate power.

[@Gliterpirate]

Wanting to shape history is what all men desire. It's all dependent on how much 'power' they have. Whether it's legacy building in the workplace or sitting at the head of the table at family dinner. The danger is that these media barons have unchecked influence over so many people. And it's this stating their opinion as fact or the only opinion which causes the distrust in media.

[@happychappy7115]

Bezos through Amazon has access to massive amounts of data and was able to see which way the wind was blowing😊

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

Do you think he was also behind the big wins on Polymarket or did they just share the same data?

[@joejones5101]

Is musk the spy within?

[@DavidManser]

Within what? His espoused political views and practical actions seem to align quite neatly with most of those in the Trump camp and Project 2025

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

Tiktok is useful in that it can often provide a very good video TL;DR in the age of information overload. Please talk more about the potential of the KZbin comments section . Why does a great interview like this only garner a dozen comments, while a presenter like Peter Zeihan gets nearly 10,000 comments for a three minute TL;DR?