/data/photo/2022/03/06/6224833073148.jpg "Besides Elon Musk, this is the billionaire who controls the big media in the world")
KOMPAS.com – Takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk showing the “terrible development” of the billionaire’s passion, to increase influence politics they are, according to leading British analyst, Founder of Enders Analysis, Claire Enders.
According to him, the buying trend media the world’s largest and most influential by the super-rich has been a long time coming. This is nothing but a way to help push their agenda.
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“This is another sign that the super-rich want to control assets that give them an extra level of power. Whatever they say, that’s the reason why they bought it.” Guardian on Tuesday (3/4/2022).
The irony, he says, is that it’s now not uncommon for big news media not to be owned by a billionaire.
“That is the reason Guardian (owned by the independent Scott Trust), Financial Times (owned by the Japanese media group owned by Nikkei employees) and BBC consistently proven to be the most trusted news brand,” he said.
The following is a list of billionaires who now rule the world’s major media:
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Elon Musk
Last week, the world’s richest man finally reached a deal to buy Twitter, the medium of choice for journalists and politicians to share stories, for 44 billion US dollars (Rp 637.95 trillion).
In his promise, the Tesla CEO, whose total wealth reaches 252 billion US dollars (Rp 3.6 quadrillion), said he would unlock the “tremendous potential” of the company. social media this, to promote freedom of speech and democracy around the world.
Jeff Bezos
The founder of Amazon and the second richest person in the world (with a net worth of $169 billion, bought the Washington Post for $250 million in 2013.
On his decision to buy the media, he said: “I had to do some deep deliberation… Do I really want to be involved in this? I started to realize that this is an important institution.”
“This is newspaper in the capitals of the most important countries in the world. The Washington Post has a very important role in this democracy. There’s no doubt in my mind about that.”
Within three years, the newspaper had doubled its online publications and made a profit.
“I know that when I turn 90, it will be one of the things I am most proud of, that I take the Washington Post and help them through a very difficult transition,” Bezos said in an interview in 2018.
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Rupert Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch is the owner Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, New York Postsome Australian titles
He was the last pure tycoon of the media business, which is still in power today. After his father’s death in 1952, Murdoch initially took over running The News, sa small Adelaide newspaper.
He expanded his newspaper portfolio across Australia, before entering the UK with a purchase News of the World in 1969. In the 1970s, he moved to New York and bought media assets starting with New York Post.
In 2017, Murdoch sold most of his family’s 21st Century Fox entertainment business to Walt Disney in a $66 billion deal. However, he retains the US right-wing newspapers and news channels Fox News.
“Are we backing out? Absolutely not,” he said at the time. “We’re spinning at an important moment.”
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Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University in 2004. Now about 2.9 billion people (more than a third of the world’s population) have registered on this social media platform.
Zuckerberg’s social media government expanded beyond Facebook to Instagram (purchased in 2012), and WhatsApp (acquired in 2014).
Late last year, Facebook changed its name to Meta. This reflects Zuckerberg’s ambition to dominate the “metaverse” – which he says is a “community pioneer of the future”.
Zuckerberg, the 12th richest person in the world with a net worth of $78 billion, controls 58 percent of Meta’s voting rights, effectively giving him personal control over all three platforms.
The platform has been accused of influencing the information users may be exposed to, and blamed for helping to spread misinformation, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Lebedevs
Russian oligarch and former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev is the owner Evening Standard and The Independent, and partly from the Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
In 2009, it bought The Standard for £1, and the following year he bought The Independent for the same value.
MediaThe media is run by his son, Evgeny. His family has poured more than 100 million pounds into the business.
The Standard was a staunch supporter of the then Mayor of London, (now British Prime Minister) Boris Johnson, until supporting his re-election campaign in 2012.
Evgeny was knighted in 2020, which put Johnson’s involvement in the spotlight. Evgeny has since sold a stake in the newspaper, but remains the largest single shareholder in it.
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Jonathan Harmsworth
Jonathan Harmsworth or Lord Rothermere is the great-grandson of one of the founders of The Mail. This year, he managed to take over ownership of the newspaper, The Daily Mail dan General Trust (DGMT), Mail on Sunday, Metro and many others.
He paid £1.6 billion to control the 63 per cent of the company he did not own. The move brought the media under private ownership, after 90 years as a public company.
The Press Gazette estimates that Harmsworth now owns about 39 per cent of the national newspaper sold each week in the UK, compared with 29 per cent in 2010.
Meanwhile Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp owns only 27.5 percent, down from about 30 percent a decade earlier.
Barclay Brothers
Billionaire twins David and Frederick Barclay bought Telegraph and magazines Spectator in 2004.
The two brothers, who lived on the island of Brecqhou in the Channel Islands, previously had The European, The Scotsman, dan Sunday Business.
David died last year. Frederick and his daughter, Amanda, have sued a group of David’s relatives for eavesdropping on conversations at the Ritz hotel, which was previously owned by their family.
The billionaire consortium
Italian billionaire Agnelli family paid £287m to increase its stake in The Economist to 43.4 percent in 2015.
The process occurred when Pearson (a multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London, England) sold its shares after selling media Financial Times.
Other shareholders are a collection of very wealthy families: the Cadburys (chocolate), the Rothschilds (banks) and Schroders (banks), as well as several staff and former employees.
Patrick Drahi
French–Israeli telecommunications billionaire Patrick Drahi, owns stake in French newspaper Liberation and magazines L’Expressthrough his Altice company.
Last year he took an 18 percent stake in BT (the multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England), sparking speculation of a potential takeover bid.
Laurene Powell Jobs
Billionaire philanthropist and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs bought a majority stake in The Atlantic in 2017.
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