But billionaires are killing everything good in journalism. They are not our saviors and never were. Read and support independent and local news outlets. Local news these days IS national news - look at Minnesota and Texas. We have to support these outlets.
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Feb 4, 2026 15:48FWIW, the only way I'd trust a billionaire to "help" save one of these legacy news orgs is if they bought it, transferred ownership to a worker-owned collective of actual journalists (not right wing Substackers), and walked away.
About as likely to happen as a cop arresting an ICE agent, so...
