The Tech Fascist Takeover of the Media
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Mia discusses Larry Ellison’s takeover of CBS, Jeff Bezos’ transformation of the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and the broader wave of tech fascists buying out the media.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Call Zone Media. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to It Could Happen here, a podcast about how freedom is a joke in our lives of the punchline. |
| 0:16.7 | I am your host, Mia Wong. |
| 0:19.7 | Long ago, 2013, in a galaxy basically exactly where this one is now, |
| 0:25.7 | Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and now a terminal fascist, |
| 0:29.6 | purchased the Washington Post. |
| 0:32.2 | This was a sign of things to come. |
| 0:36.1 | The danger of the American free press is, and has always been, |
| 0:41.0 | that we do not have a free press, we have a capitalist press. |
| 0:46.8 | Writing, and especially reporting, is a material product. |
| 0:51.4 | Journalists have to eat. |
| 0:52.9 | They have to travel. |
| 0:54.1 | They have to go places. They have to meet |
| 0:55.9 | people. All of this requires capital. And the problem with all of this requiring capital |
| 1:02.9 | is that capital is not a neutral entity, and the people who possess capital have interests. |
| 1:11.9 | Fast forward to 2020, as protests and uprisings |
| 1:16.6 | raged across the United States against the police and white supremacy, |
| 1:20.6 | a battle broke out inside of the New York Times' newsrooms and editorial staff |
| 1:25.6 | about the newspaper publishing an opinion piece called |
| 1:29.8 | Send in the Troops, calling for, you guessed it, sending in the troops to attack protesters |
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