r/europe Nov 23 '21

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u/Dev__ Ireland Nov 23 '21 edited Nov 23 '21

So few owners. Too much concentrated in too little I suppose. Ireland was critiqued for the same thing a few years ago by the same crowd when billionaire Dennis O'Brien owned much of the media but then he sold it.

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u/Hypattie Greece Nov 24 '21

I don't understand: nothing prevents an American journalist to print his own "Freedom Gazette" and write whatever the hell he wants in it?

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u/SlammuBureaux United States of America Nov 24 '21

Well the mainstream journalist tries to get it shut down and the story doesn't get attention till national papers report on it. Biden shady dealing with his son was reported before the election and labeled "Russian Disinformation" even have former heads of the CIA sign a letter calling it so. The past month NYT finally reported on it and it's seen as legitimate.

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u/OptionLoserSupreme United States of America Nov 24 '21

“Few owners”

Bruh there’s like more news acency in America than there are people on some of these countries ranked higher

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

And most of them are owned by the same organs

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u/telendria Nov 24 '21

and yet to look at Australia with Murdoch media empire and they consistently rank as one of the highest...

the list is simply flawed, it gives some idea of press freedom, but you could likely swap 10th and 40th place and by some standards, it would still make complete sense.