🎧 Buy it. Use it. Break it. Fix it. traces the conservative takeover of American media — from the end of the Fairness Doctrine to the rise of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh’s talk radio empire, and the MAGA-era buyouts of local stations and legacy outlets. We dig into how billionaires like Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, and David Ellison reshaped journalism into propaganda, why Jimmy Kimmel became the latest target of Trump’s war on free speech, and what it means for democracy when the “news” is engineered to misinform.
👉 This isn’t just about Fox or Newsmax — it’s about a decades-long strategy to dominate the media ecosystem from talk radio to Twitter, CBS to CNN, Sinclair to Nexstar. And the Left has to decide whether it’s willing to fight back.
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