A new ranking by Free Press describes Bloomberg as the only real opposition to Donald Trump among billionaire-owned media
organizations.
Bloomberg was awarded a star, in sharp contrast to the Los Angeles Times, which garnered four chickens and Alden Global Capital,
which was given three in this skewed rating system.
Why would this clearly leftist site favor Bloomberg, a tool for Wall Street?
“In an editorial published
shortly after the 2024 election, company owner Michael Bloomberg wrote “on almost every issue that voters identified as a priority, Trump’s proposals would likely make matters
worse.”
Well, fine, if that’s the way you’re bent. In contrast, Gannett is described by the Boston Globe as having done “brutal and probably
irreversible damage on already struggling news organizations all across this country.”
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Of course, all this is subjective. We’d give News Corp. a star for its
reporting on the Epstein scandal and it’s standing up to a massive defamation lawsuit by Trump. News Corp.’s pro-market and conservative editorials are no
disqualification.
And why would The New York Times rate a chicken when its editorials are every bit as tough as Bloomberg’s?
“The New
York Times would be more positively rated here were it not for one consistent failing at the massively influential newspaper: those damn headlines,” Free Press asserts, “ In an
apparent and ill-advised attempt at both-sides objectivity, the paper’s headline writers routinely
normalize the most extreme elements of Trumpism.”
Personally, we applaud this striving for objectivity.
And the worst of the big publications
in terms of complicity with the Trump administration?
The Los Angeles Times under doctor and billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an
endorsement of Kamala Harris in the election last year.
Since then, Soon-Shiong has taken “an even more aggressive role in determining the editorial direction of the paper,
including softening headlines that appear to be critical of the Trump White House and cabinet members.”
We have one more question—quite an obvious one. Why isn’t The
Washington Post on this list? We’d guess it deserves both chickens and stars.