It's not some far away dystopia. It's happening now.
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Friend,

Imagine a world in which independent media is gone and the only sources
of news are controlled by a handful of giant corporations.

It's not some faraway dystopia. It's happening now. With the rapid
corporate consolidation of traditional news outlets and the internet
moving increasingly under the thumb of Big Tech, this is the world
we're quickly heading toward.

Common Dreams has watched as digital news outlets all around us have
laid off staff or gone out of business, and we're facing the same
stiff headwinds that they are.

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So as we watch independent journalism struggle, you have to wonder who
will report on the abuses of giant corporations when the news itself is
a giant corporate monopoly?

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