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I’ve often thought that this is an opportunity to snap up the experts he’s firing in all avenues of government but especially in media

the will, and the unselfish integrity.

There seems to be no such person, although there are plenty who could afford to do it.

At this point though I would prefer it a "rich person with a will" who leaves an endowment to support good work.

But then who would do the important work, like sending Katy Perry into space?

That would be so wonderful.

Yeah, sounds like @nickhanauer.bsky.social would be sympathetic. He's kinda fed up with all this seeing as he called it in 2014

I’m hoping they’ll do something like what folks did when gaming sites laid off a lot of people - got together and created their own subscription based site, @aftermath.site

Too bad Soros isn't as cool as the bigots says he is.

There are no good billionaires. Not a single one.

@mcuban.bsky.social

For real. Be nice to see Clooney and others step up in a meaningful way, rather than just issuing statements while living in overseas.

Building a face of local news outlets in purple states should be a priority.

Have been imagining that eventually one of these AI firms will build a newsroom, a la Bloomberg. Certainly no lack of talent out there to stand one up. (Not saying it would be a good thing.)

Surely someone can scrounge up 9 figures to fund the Defector foundation.

Does Warren Buffett want to spend his twilight years using his money in perhaps the most effective way possible to help society?

I was thinking the same thing. What a collection of great great reporters are available. Time to start something new and impervious to corporate control. Time for a large nonprofit news org funded by an endowment managed by an independent board.

I would buy a subscription.

@nomasterszone.bsky.social

Bezos didn’t really turn hard right until he got the WaPo. So I don’t think this is the way.

My goal if i win the lotter!

youtu.be/Ehvd69WQeS8?...

Mark Cuban? Are you listening???

Regular people are all struggling to survive right now.

Right?? There's so much talent and skill floating out there. Somebody ought to grab it.

It would seem that all the rich people would rather just be rich.

Alternative idea

A comedian?

A rich person who doesn't kiss Trumps butt or profit from MAGA grift, is a rare find.

Someone needs to buy infowars and do the most heroic thing.

if i win the lottery, i’d do it

McKenzie Scott, where art thou?!

I was just thinking the same thing.

Seriously. The greatest journalists in the country have all been run out of their jobs. You could hire all of them and it would be like a Pulitzer machine.

Oprah is in media and already an experienced publisher. She has a head start on any other billionaire out there. I keep wondering why she won’t take the reins.

And law firm

The fact that there isn't a rich person with the will might show why billionaires need to go.

Hello Taylor? Oprah? Cuban?

But that isn’t how the rich stay rich.

Sadly, there is not.

Yes the person would have to be willing to lose it. If your publication does leftist news advertisers hate it, too.

Mackenzie Bezos could do the funniest thing right now

MacKenzie Scott could make a real Washington Post instead of the ghost ship there now. She can’t buy the real thing, but DC needs real news.

Omidyar's Intercept is good, but escaping what Thiel did to Gawker is never easy.

I held out some dim hope that Oprah might buy the Chicago Tribune when it was for sale a few years ago. Chicago was good to her and she has the cash. But.. no. Was never a fan, though. Way too much fawning over her.

they don’t even have to be super rich??

But they’re be shunned by the other rich people and apparently that’s a bigger deal for most if not all of the people with enough money to do this

Most incredible? Surely you mean the most credible.

Vast pity, since Teen Vogue has been the only news agency I've actually trusted in the last several years.

I've thought the same thing many times

Looking your way, Mckenzie Scott.

Also probably a kick-ass software development shop

Good oligarch vs bad oligarch. Is there such thing as a good oligarch?

Paging MacKenzie Scott 📟

I keep thinking this!! I would fund a no-lies no-misinformation nonprofit news org that would reinvest all of it's revenue back into the mission and its staff.

Check out the tv series “Paper.”

It's getting hard to tell them apart from the actual news these days, so they may as well open "Real Onion" and take all the real journalists with them.

The future is now. @bencollins.bsky.social

I fully expect to eventually find out that the Baltimore Banner- which LOOKS like a rich person trying to do a cool hands-off journalism thing- isn't nearly the noble endeavor it seems to be. ...but for now it's a cool outfit with cool writers and it's FAR better than the Baltimore Sun.

Someone give @Zeteo a billion dollars.

Honest question for the curious: How much do you think that would take to run well for, say, 3 years? I don't ask to be the "hmm, what a good idea! too bad nothing will ever matter" guy but because my concept of large-scale finance is doodoo.

Paging MacKenzie Scott

If George Soros were 1% of the threat that conservatives make him out to be this would have been a fait accompli before I even heard about the layoffs.

Maybe we could page @dropout.tv?

@mcuban.bsky.social you still pretending to be one of the good billionaires ?

I think that freedom minded billionaires like Mark Cuban should buy the Corporation For Public Broadcasting and hire many of the brilliant journalists who have been recently ousted. Think of the existing infrastructure and vast reach. We could do away with All Things Considered, too (Bonus!).

I think about this all the time.

Rich people are all fighting against humanity

I seem to recall this being how the Washington Post recovered a few years ago. Until it didn't, of course. That's the problem with rich people owning the news.

There never seems to be any rich people who want to do this, alas.

IKR? Bezos was too compromised. We need a mentally stable Peter Thiel.

The Onion could have a teen version called the Shallot.

Oh, this is a brilliant idea.

Bonus points if funded by MacKenzie Scott.

Couldn't this be crowd funded?

But we have to find the liberal Joe Rogan and that search process alone will take 7 years and 18 billion dollars.

And sadly this is not even the first year you could say that about.

Exactly. The price of drugs is. Tori ally important , but couldn’t Mark Cuban expand into news?

I feel foolish for thinking "Democracy dies in darkness" was warning and not a goal.

WOKE MEDIA

Like Bezos with Washington Post? We can't rely on billionaires. Let's try to come up with a new model.

Create a Spotify for journalists.

No one with enough money to do that is a good person. If they were a good person, they wouldn't have that much money.

Or for the cost of Bari Weiss' personal Blackwater Squad. pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

@mcuban.bsky.social, @karaswisher.bsky.social, @profgalloway.com

Darn tootin. Time to form News Voltron!

And if my aunt had balls, they'd be my uncle. Billionaires are not our friends

hey Im rich, I have 200$ right here, what should I do? (us dollars btw)

This hurts. Really hurts. The work Teen Vogue performed was Pulitzer worthy.

Yes, entirely unfamiliar.

Laurene Powell Jobs and Mackenzie Scott could build quite the news org…

How about a multistakeholder one? Subscribers get a seat on the board. Enough of a perq to move the needle?

Lauren Jobs is chair at The Atlantic.

Jon Stewart has the production experience and connections to put together a web-based news channel that wasn't subject to being held hostage by FCC license.

Just think of the line-up they could put together of peeps that have been.... dismissed or just said I can't do it and walked.

great idea!

@karaswisher.bsky.social 👀

Look at the hiring the Atlantic has done in the last year

MARK CUBAN NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO PROVE IT

Mark Cuban might do it if you ask politely and give him some kind of tax incentive first.

George Soros would but he's too busy paying all the protestors

The fact that we have to look to superhero comic books to find billionaires & multimillionaires who actively work to improve their communities with housing, healthcare, & jobs programs to lift people out of poverty only reinforces my mantra: we need to end the concept and existence of billionaires

A sad day. Teen Vogue has a proud legacy.

Blatant woke propaganda rag. The house of cards is really tumbling now if even the teenage girls have had enough. Politics staffers of Teen Vogue, lol. Were any teen girls even reading it, or was it all just middle-aged she-hers wanting advice about boys & their imaginary periods?