Sheldon Adelson (cc photo: East Coast Gambler)
Common Dreams‘ Sarah Lazare (12/22/15) quotes Jim Naureckas on Sheldon Adelson’s purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Jim Naureckas, the editor of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting’s watchdog journal Extra!, explained how the purchase could impact people locally as well.
“Local newspapers are the main vehicle for the public to get a glimpse of what’s going on at the level of government that most impacts their lives,” Naureckas told Common Dreams. “Las Vegas is a one-industry town, and Adelson is a casino billionaire who is part of that industry. This is not going to be good for the people of Las Vegas.”…
Naureckas emphasized that Adelson’s latest purchase is “part of a trend of rich individuals buying papers as a kind of hobby or a vehicle to promulgate their points of view.”
“It puts a tremendous amount of information power in the hands of a tiny number of people,” said Naureckas. “Invariably, they’re extremely wealthy people, because only the wealthy have enough money to buy a newspaper as a personal possession.”
Maybe he will have a lucky 7 jackpot, where if someone gets it, he will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…
Ya, I don’t think so either.