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Mark Pocan: “Jeff Bezos from Amazon owns the Washington Post. You've got…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 14:43

Well, do you think there's also a part of this that's also adding to the decline? Is that, you know, with consolidation among those legacy media, I mean, Jeff Bezos from Amazon owns the Washington Post. You've got Disney owning ABC News, Paramount Global owns CBS, and Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. There's some inherent conflicts, it seems like, with those ownership interests and some of the largest media companies. Is that also part of this decline? (14:43–14:55)

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