Exclusive: Media company recently signed lucrative deal with Saudi government-controlled MBC Group
Welp, so much for Vice being a subversive voice of the people. They’re an embarrassing husk of their former selves.
Yeah, but at least it’s not government run media /s
I’m in Canada and I find the reporting of CBC and TVO to be fairly good - and I can only imagine the news landscape when all news is 100% privately corpo owned
Not to say either are beyond reproach when it comes to powerful special interests, but that only goes to show that monopolies are terrible and have unreasonable leverage and not some nihilistic comment on the nature of man or whatever.
Man In Canada at this point only CBC and Winnipeg Free Press are reliable news sources. The rest are all Murdoch rags.
We have to ban foreign nationals owning our media. They do not purchase media companies as business interests anymore; it is only ever about changing public opinion.
Domestic billionaires doing this is okay, though?
For profit news is a plague
OTOH, Vice is a private company.
One could argue I guess that per country, international companies need to have distinct subsidiaries and those need to be fully owned and operated in that country only with no international cash flow.
But it’d be quite difficult to enforce, I’d imagine.
Remember when you could count on vice to have a spine?
Just a bunch of jokers now.
fuck Saudi Arabia
