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Friend,
It was reported this week that The Hill—an inside-the-beltway news outlet that prides itself on appeasing its corporate underwriters and investors by being neither "too right" nor "too left"—just sold to a major TV conglomerate for $130 million.
"I like to say that we’re as far to the left as the right will go and as far to the right as the left will go,” a chief investor once said of The Hill.
And in the world of for-profit journalism, that kind of faux middle-of-the-road ideology—where ExxonMobil can post paid content as it pleases and the morning newsletter is sponsored by Facebook—that's a valuable attribute.
Meanwhile, this week, the sale price of Politico was reported to be upwards of $1 billion. Corporate media is at least good for making a select few people very rich.
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