Yet another relatively minor, but still significant and symbolic, casualty of the billionaires’ and corporations’ war on independent media (aside from their war on the environment, war on the working class, war on regulations, war on taxes, etc.):
Any billionaire could keep Salon running for relative peanuts. It wouldn’t impact their bottom line one iota. But what do billionaires do when they acquire media they actually want to keep running? See Bezos and the Washington Post – they turn them into propaganda outlets.