Billionaire Joe Ricketts is starting “Straight Arrow News” because he thinks there’s a market for “unbiased, fact-based” news, yet the website currently has AP videos (top-notch, fair, journalism) & also forgets local newspapers follow that definition too.https://t.co/4LlQjo7m4D
— Alia Conley (@aliaconleyOWH) January 17, 2021
It always seems like there comes a point where billionaires don’t know what else to buy, so they create things that aren’t needed and tell themselves they’re actually making an important contribution https://t.co/ZdVpd6ZaEP
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) January 17, 2021
And do not forget that Joe Ricketts *did* own a news outlet. He bought Gothamist and DNAinfo and shut them down a week after the workers unionized. A lot of people doing good journalism, out of work.https://t.co/WNPVoEnMV0
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) January 17, 2021
The next thing for him to buy? A political seat for Gov. Pete Ricketts. The natural progression of capitalism is to control the government which regulates it.