We have now had over a week to process the news about Elon Musk buying Twitter and, to the surprise of no one, the leftist response has been over the top of over the top. Dire warnings about the perils of a billionaire owning a major media platform flowed like water over Niagra falls. My thoughts immediately went to the Jeff Bezos purchase of The Washington Post and the notable lack of caterwauling from the left about that.
I was working from memory at first and couldnât come up with any extreme overreaction to Bezos when he bought WaPo. Sure, conservatives raised some eyebrows but we didnât have nervous breakdowns. The general consensus was that WaPo was already so awful that it probably couldnât devolve into an even bigger rag.
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