How to Fix Our Broken Media

Media is increasingly becoming tools of the government and corporations

Before talking about a fix, let us talk about the actual problem we have.

Fox News today (15 April 2025) is operating largely as a regime propaganda broadcaster that reminds me more of state media from North Korea or the dying days of Saddam Hussein’s regime than an independent news organization committed to quality journalism.

And they are just the top of the iceberg. The few times I revisit Twitter these days, I notice it is still flooded with whatever idea Elon Musk’s teen edge-lord brain has suddenly decided would be “cool” to talk about — such as making jokes about taking away the jobs from tens of thousands of people, or food and medicines from millions of people in poor countries.

Nothing like a billionaire joking about ruining the lives of the poorest in the world.

Marie Antoinette is famously attributed with having said “Let them eat cake” when advisors told her the people did not have bread. Although there is no evidence she ever said that, it has become a cultural meme — an example of someone of privilege entirely out of touch with the common people.

But notice how even someone as caricatured as Marie Antoinette was never characterized, even…