WRT Newsweek, there is no truly free press.

[MineralMan]

With remarkably few exceptions, all media outlets have owners. They are businesses. At any time, owners can dictate content. The only free press is Samizdat. That outlet has never been more available than today.

[guillaumeb]

1. And according to The Nation,

90% of the media is owned by 6 large corporations. Amazing that conservatives have convinced the uninformed right wing voters that a corporate owned media is somehow liberal.

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. Agree MM - however, wouldn't it be nice to know -

who those businessmen and women are? - In light of Newsweek being a staple in many homes, and businesses? -

Newsweek is a trusted publication, in my mind(what's left of it) - if, the finances of Newsweek, and Olivet and "the Community" are co-mingled..what then?

[MineralMan]

3. Sure. Knowing who owns a publication can help you

figure out whate the sources are of potential biases. Newsweek has long been a pretty reliable source of information. Will that continue? Perhaps, and perhaps not.

As always consumers of news reporting need to compare reports from multiple sources before trusting any of them. That takes time and intellectual curiosity. Fox News, for example, succeeds because its viewers completely lack the second quality.