Ross: The different levels of for-profit media

Last week the Washington Post ran a piece headlined “How a Billionaire’s Boys’ Club Came To Dominate The Public Square.”

It was about how Elon Musk (new owner of Twitter) posted a snarky tweet about the Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos) which had published an op-ed written by Michael Bloomberg (Owner of the Bloomberg Media conglomerate).

To paraphrase the opening line: “The world’s richest man attacked a publication owned by the world’s third-richest man… for reprinting a column published by the world’s 13th-richest man.”

The Post article goes on to worry about the number of publications owned by billionaires, their control of social media, and their donations to

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