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by vkou 1870 days ago
> Then why does every billionaire and national newspaper support those things

1. Most national news, by number of publications leans left. Conservative publications get more eyeballs per outlet, though. Most local news, of course, takes the installation of a single bike lane as evidence that the ghosts of Pol Pot and Stalin have just succeeded in an unholy socialist coup of the local city council.

2. Right leaning billionaires tend to keep their mouths shut more than left-leaning ones.