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Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about how freedom is a joke in our lives

of the punchline.

I am your host, Mia Wong.

Long ago, 2013, in a galaxy basically exactly where this one is now,

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and now a terminal fascist, purchased the Washington Post.

This was a sign of things to come.

The danger of the American free press is, and has always been, that we do not have a free press,

we have a capitalist press. Writing, and especially reporting, is a material product. Journalists have to eat. They have to

travel. They have to go places. They have to meet people. All of this requires capital. And the

problem with all of this requiring capital is that capital is not a neutral entity, and the people who possess

capital have interests. Fast forward to 2020, as protests and uprisings raised across the United

States against the police and white supremacy, a battle broke out inside of the New York Times' newsrooms and editorial staff

about the newspaper publishing an opinion piece called

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