LSE – 26/09/2018
George Pitcher
In the second part of his examination of media ownership, George Pitcher concludes that social-media operators can’t operate in a moral vacuum
In last week’s blog, I traced a continuum of meanness between the old press barons, such as Lord Beaverbrook, and the new media owners, such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Both kinds were and are fabulously rich, I argued, but impoverished spiritually in their treatment of those who work for them. We could conclude that it doesn’t matter so much today because the old breed were political propagandists and the new breed are not.